1924 in Germany

Decades:	1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s;
See also:	Other events of 1924; History of Germany • Timeline • Years

The following lists events that happened during 1924 in the Weimar Republic.

Incumbents

4 January – The Emminger Reform is enacted that abolished the jury system and replaced it with a mixed system of judges and lay judges.
31 January – Leaders of independent republic of the Rhineland Palatinate attempting to formally secede from Germany fails from lack of support.
23 February – Great Britain reduces German reparation recovery duties on German goods to 5% due to Germany's economic troubles.
26 February – The trial of Adolf Hitler for the Beer Hall Putsch begins and will last until 1 April.
3 March – Germany signs a treaty of friendship with Turkey.
26 May – Wilhelm Marx's government resigns after negotiations breakdown for a coalition.
6 June – Germany accepts Dawes Plan, a US plan to help solve German debt.
16 August – Representatives of the French government agree to leave the Ruhr in the Occupation of the Ruhr during the London Conference of World War I reparations.
29 August – The German Reichstag approves the Dawes Plan for the reduction of World War I reparations.
30 August – The German Reichsbank begins operating independent of the German government by issuing a new mark after the hyperinflation completely devaluates the old mark.
10 October – An international loan is granted to Germany to help the reconstruction of Germany's economy and industry.
18–30 November – France and Belgium return control of the Ruhr to Germany in the Occupation of the Ruhr.

Anton Flettner develops the rotor ship using rotating cylinders instead of sails.
The German firm Leitz develops the Leica camera which is the first to use 35mm film.

Thomas Mann's novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) is published.
Kurt Hielscher's photographic album Deutschland: Baukunst und Landschaft (Germany: Architecture and Landscapes) is published.
Forbidden Paradise, starring Pola Negri, Rod La Rocque, and Adolphe Menjou, is released by director Ernst Lubitsch.
The Last Laugh, starring Emil Jannings, is released by director F.W. Murnau.
Waxworks, starring William Dieterle, Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, and Werner Krauss, is released by director Paul Leni.
The opera Intermezzo is first performed by Richard Strauss in Dresden, Germany.
Artist Kurt Schwitters creates the Merz 32 collage.
Die Häschenschule a children's book written by Albert Sixtus and illustrated by Fritz Koch-Gotha is published.

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