1924 in Germany

Decades:	1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s;
See also:	Other events of 1924; List of years in Germany

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.
4 May - German federal election, May 1924
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 November-30 November - France and Belgium return control of the Ruhr to Germany in the Occupation of the Ruhr.
7 December - German federal election, December 1924

Dates not known

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.
German company Hugo Boss was founded.
Electroencephalography for humans by Hans Berger. Berger discovered Alpha waves.

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.

3 January - Otto Beisheim, German businessman (died 2013)
4 January - Marianne Werner, German athlete
3 February - Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, German nobleman (died 2010)
12 February - Karl-Heinz Kipp, German entrepreneur (died 2017)
11 March - Peter Scholl-Latour, German journalist (died 2014)
8 April - Günter Pfitzmann, German actor (died 2003)
10 April - Wolfgang Menge, German television director and journalist (died 2012)
23 April - Ruth Leuwerik, German film actress (died 2016)
3 May - Yehuda Amichai, German-born Israeli poet (died 2000)
12 May - Jürgen Dethloff, German engineer (died 2002)
14 May - Coco Schumann, jazz musician (died 2018)
23 May - Karlheinz Deschner, German writer (died 2014)
31 May - Gisela May, German actress and singer (died 2016)
4 June - Heinz Westphal, German politician (died 1998)
10 June - Friedrich L. Bauer, German computer scientist (died 2015)
19 June - Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic soprano (died 2010)
20 June - Rainer Barzel, German politician (died 2006)
25 July - Arnold Weiss, German-born American soldier ((died 2010)
18 August - Armin, Prince of Lippe, German nobleman (died 2015)
2 September - Wolfgang Zeidler, German judge (died 1987)
4 September - Helmut Schlesinger, German economist
18 November - Elfie Pertramer, German actress (died 2011)
6 December - Meinrad Miltenberger, German canoeist (died 1993)
11 December - Heinz Schenk, German actor and television presenter (died 2014)

January 20 - Franz Dibelius, German Protestant theologian (born 1847)
February 27 - Hans Georg Friedrich Groß, German balloonist and airship constructor (born 1860)
March 20 - Adolf von Scholz, German politician (born 1833)
April 10 - Hugo Stinnes, German industrialist and politician (born 1870)
April 23 - Karl Helfferich, German politician (born 1872)
April 25 - Ernst Büchner, German chemist (born 1850)
August 11 - Franz Heinrich Schwechten, German architect (born 1841)
October 10 - Carl von Thieme, German banker (born 1844)

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