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INCUMBENTS

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January 11 - French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr after Germany defaults on coal payments.

August 6 - Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann becomes German Chancellor upon the resignation of Wilhelm Cuno .

August 10 - 13 - Strikes and riots break out in response to the government's failure to deal with the economic crisis.

September 15 - Germany's bank rate is raised to 90% due to Hyperinflation .

September 26 - Gustav Stresemann calls for an end to sabatoge by Germans against French and Belgian workers in the Ruhr.

September 26 - The German government declares a state of emergency under Article 48 of the German Weimar Constitution due to the economic and political violence.

October 21 - A separatist government is formed in the Rhineland Palatinate which is quickly recognized by the French government.

November 8 - 9 - Members of the National Socialist Workers' Party ( Nazi ), led by Adolf Hitler , fail in a Coup attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government in Munich, Germany which is later known as the " Munich Putsch ".

November 15 - The value of the German Mark falls to 4,200,000 of the United States dollar causing the German government to issue the Retenmark as a replacement for the mark.

November 23 - Gustav Stresemann resigns as German Chancellor after a Vote Of No Confidence from members of the government.

December 1 - Center Party member Wilhelm Marx forms a new Coalition Government becoming the new German Chancellor.

December 8 - Germany signs an Economic Treaty with the United States.

ARTS AND LITERATURE

Hermann Oberth publishes '' Die Rakete Zu Den Planetenraumen '' ('' The Rocket Into Interplanetary Space '')

SPORTS

BIRTHS

May 27 - Henry A. Kissinger , United States presidential advisor

DEATHS

February 1 - Ernst Troeltsch , Theologian and Philosopher

February 10 - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen , Physicist