1924 in Germany

Incumbents

National level

• Friedrich Ebert

• Wilhelm Marx

  Events

• 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.

  Dates unknown

• 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.

  Popular culture

Arts and literature

• Thomas Mann's novel Der Zauberberg is published.
• Kurt Hielscher's photographic album 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.

  Sports

Births

• 12 May – Jürgen Dethloff, German engineer
• 11 March – Peter Scholl-Latour, German journalist
• 23 April – Ruth Leuwerik, German film actress
• 3 May – Yehuda Amichai, German-born Israeli poet
• 19 June – Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic soprano
• 11 December – Heinz Schenk, German actor and television presenter

  Deaths

• 10 April – Hugo Stinnes, German industrialist and politician.