Golden Age of Weimar

• Golden Age of Weimar - End of 1923 to October 1929
• Dawes Plan


  • French and Belgian troops leave the Ruhr.
  • Germany was loaned 800 million marks from the USA.
• Young Plan


  • Reduced the total amount of reparations by 20%
  • Britain and France withdraw all their troops from the Rhineland by June 1930.
  • Us banks continue to loan money to Germany.
• Germany's world role


  • Stresemann worked to repair Germany's tarnished world image.
  • Germany in league of nations in 1926.
• Signs of Recovery +

  • Between 1925 and 1929 exports rose by 40%.
  • Hourly wages rose every year
  • Dawes Plan in 1924 and Young Plan in 1929 helped stabilise the economy and secure further loans from the USA.
  • Education, music, and film flourished in Berlin.
• Signs of Recovery -

  • Germany became dependent upon loans from the USA.
  • Agricultural production didn't recover to pre-war levels.
  • Germany spent more on imports than it earned from exports.