1925 in Germany

Incumbents

National level

• Friedrich Ebert to 28 February, then from 12 May Paul von Hindenburg

• Wilhelm Marx to 15 January, then Hans Luther

  Events

• 15 January - Center Party member Hans Luther becomes Chancellor of Germany after the resignation of Wilhelm Marx.
• 25 February - Adolf Hitler makes his first public appearance since being released from prison
• 25 April - Paul von Hindenburg, winning 48.5% of the popular vote against the Center Party's Wilhelm Marx with 45.2%, is elected President of Germany.
• 13 July - France begins to withdraw from the Rhineland.
• 18 July - Publication of Mein Kampf
• 29 August - Walther von Lüttwitz and members involved in the attempted "Kapp Putsch" coup of March 1920 are granted amnesty by the German government.
• 5 October-16 October - The United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, and Germany agree to the established western borders and signs mutual assistance pacts in order to stabilize Germany's eastern borders at the local area Locarno Conference.
• 12 October - Germany and the Soviet Union sign an economic treaty.
• 1 December - The UK withdraws from Cologne, Germany.

  Arts and literature

Births

• 24 March - Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer
• 2 April - Hans Rosenthal, German television presenter
• 5 May - Eddi Arent, German actor
• 6 September - Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, German-born Israeli linguist
• 7 October - Fred Bertelmann, German singer
• 12 November - Heinz Schubert, German actor and comedian
• 28 December - Hildegard Knef, German actress

  Deaths

January

• 4 or 5 January - Richard Saran, German architect
• January 7 - Emil Schäpe, German fighter pilot

  February

• January 28 - Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany

  May

• 12 May — Hans-Georg von der Marwitz, World War I German flying ace

  June

• June 15 - Richard Teichmann, German chess master

  October

• Anna Schäffer, German woman who lived in Mindelstetten in Bavaria. canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 21, 2012.
• October 9 - Hugo Preuß, German lawyer and liberal politician (b. 1860

  November

• November 14 - Agnes Zimmermann, German concert pianist and composer

  December

• 9 December - Herman Schalow, German ornithologist.

  Date unknown

• Martin Zander