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Events relating to germany
Germany's communists organise uprisings in Saxony, Thuringia and Hamburg
Adolf Hitler, launching a putsch in a Munich beer cellar, announces the birth of a new national government
Adolf Hitler's beer-cellar putsch ends in ignominious failure, as he turns and flees under fire
Hermann Goering is wounded in the aftermath of the Munich beer hall putsch, but unlike Hitler manages to escape
Rainer Maria Rilke publishes his Duino Elegies and his Sonnets to Orpheus
Adolf Hitler dictates Mein Kampf to Rudolf Hess in their shared prison cell after the failed Munich putsch
Rudolf Hess suggests to Hitler the policy of Lebensraum or 'living space' for the German people
Paul Hindemith sets Rainer Maria Rilke's song-cycle Das Marienleben
The League of Nations grants Belgium a mandate to administer the former Germany colony of Ruanda-Urundi
German author Thomas Mann publishes his novel The Magic Mountain
German scientist Felix Wankel builds a model of a rotary engine, thirty years before the first prototype is manufactured
A new German currency, the Reichsmark, is launched with the value of a trillion old marks
The first volume of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf is published
23-year-old German physicist Werner Heisenberg publishes his ground-breaking theory of quantum mechanics
Field marshal Paul von Hindenburg is elected president of the Weimar Republic in Germany
The German navy adapts a civilian encryption machine, Enigma, for military purposes
Treaties signed at Locarno, in Switzerland, aim to stabilize and guarantee Germany's borders with France and Belgium
Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck has its premiere in Berlin
The Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) is established by the Nazi party for teenage boys
Germany joins the League of Nations, with a permanent seat on the council
Rudolf von Laban publishes a new system of dance notation, which becomes known in English as Labanotation
Mies van der Rohe designs a monument in Berlin for the Spartacus leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
Walter Gropius designs buildings in Dessau as a new home for the Bauhaus
Ernst Krenek's jazz opera Jonny Strikes Up has its premiere in Leipzig
Werner Heisenberg publishes his Uncertainty Principle, declaring that it is impossible to define precisely the position and momentum of a sub-atomic particle
