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Events in the year 1931 in Germany.

Incumbents

  • President - Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)

Events

  • January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau) in Africa.
  • February 11 – National Socialist (NSDAP) and National Party (DNVP) members walk out of the Reichstag in protest against changes in the parliament's protocol intended to limit heckling.
  • April 22 – Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States recognize the Second Spanish Republic.
  • May 8 – Prosecution of Adolf Hitler by Hans Litten for complicity in manslaughter committed by members of the Sturmabteilung at the Tanzpalast Eden ("Eden Dance Palace") in Berlin in 1930 is dismissed.[1]
  • June 5 – Chancellor Brüning visits London, where he warns the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald that the collapse of the Austrian banking system, caused by the bankruptcy of the Creditanstalt, has left the entire German banking system on the verge of collapse. Germany suspends payment of World War I reparations and, despite declaration of the Hoover Moratorium, there is massive withdrawal of domestic and foreign funds from German banks, which by mid-July have all closed.[2]
  • June 10 – The Schienenzeppelin, an experimental propeller driven railcar, sets up a new world railway speed record of 230 km/h on its way from Hamburg to Berlin which is not surpassed by any other train for 24 years.
  • August 9 – Referendum in Prussia for dissolving the Landtag ends with the "yes" side winning 37% of the vote, which is insufficient for calling the early elections. The elections are intended to remove the Social Democratic Party (SPD) government of Otto Braun, which is one of the strongest forces for democracy in Germany. Supporting the "yes" side are the NSDAP, the DNVP and the Communist Party (KPD), while the SPD and Zentrum support the "no" side.
  • August 29 – Airship Graf Zeppelin pioneers the air route between Germany and Brazil.
  • August – The Deaflympics are held in Nuremberg.[3]
  • October 11 – Rally in Bad Harzburg leads to the Harzburg Front being founded, uniting the NSDAP, the DNVP, the Stahlhelm and various other right-wing fractions.
  • December 8 – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler is appointed Reich Price Commissioner to enforce the deflationary policies of the Brüning government.

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References

  1. ^ Hett, Benjamin Carter (2007). "Hans Litten and the Politics of Criminal Law in the Weimar Republic". In Dubber, Markus Dirk; Farmer, Lindsay (eds.). Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment. Stanford University Press.
  2. ^ Young, William (2006). German Diplomatic Relations 1871–1945: The Wilhelmstrasse and the Formulation of Foreign Policy. iUniverse, Inc. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-595-40706-4.
  3. ^ Bell, Daniel (17 March 2016). Encyclopedia of International Games. McFarland. p. 519. ISBN 978-1-4766-1527-1.
  4. ^ Ankum, Katharina (1997). Women in the metropolis : gender and modernity in Weimar culture. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 11. ISBN 9780520917606.
  5. ^ Mulvey, Thomas (1996). Advances in imaging and electron physics. San Diego London: Academic Press. p. 134. ISBN 9780080577623.
  6. ^ Aftalion, Fred (1991). A history of the international chemical industry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 165. ISBN 9780812282078.
  7. ^ Robert Parker (31 May 2015). "Walter Burkert: Classical scholar whose fascinating books on Greek mythology and religion were packed with fresh insight". The Independent. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  8. ^ Feminist scholar Maria Mies dead at 92
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