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The early timeline of Nazism begins with its origins in 1896 and continues until Hitler's rise to power.

Prehistory of National Socialism

• 1896 The Czech National Socialist Party is formed.
• 1897 Franko Stein moves a small periodical Der Hammer from Vienna to Eger.
• May 1898 Maurice Barrès, while standing as a nationalist candidate for Nancy, France, coins the term "Socialist Nationalism".
• 1898 German Workers Congress organized by Stein in Eger (Cheb).
• Apr 1902 Organization of Nationalistic Labor took place in Saaz.
• Nov 15, 1903 Deutsche Arbeiterpartei in Österreich formed. (DAP)
• 1904 Hans Knirsch proposes to add "National Socialist" to the Austrian DAP name; rejected by party congress confrees.
• 1909 "All-Austrian" congress of the German Workers’ Party held in Prague.

World War I

1914

• Aug 1, 1914 World War I breaks out.
• Aug 2, 1914 Adolf Hitler receives permission to enlist; joins the 16th Reserve Infantry Regiment in Munich
• Oct 30, 1914 Adolf Hitler transferred to regimental staff as runner.
• Nov 1, 1914 Adolf Hitler promoted to Gefreiter (senior private or corporal).

1918

• Mar 7, 1918 Anton Drexler organized a branch of German Workers’ Peace in Munich.
• Jul 17, 1918 Adolf Hitler saves life of 9th Company Commander
• Aug 4, 1918 Adolf Hitler awarded Iron Cross 1st Class.
• Oct 13, 1918 Adolf Hitler gassed near Ypres.
• Nov 7, 1918 100,000 workers march on the Royal House of Wittelsbach. Kaiser Wilhelm flees.
• Nov 8, 1918 All 22 of Germany’s lesser kings, princes, grand dukes, and ruling dukes had been desposed.
• " " Kaiser Wilhelm told to abdicate
• Nov 9, 1918 Emil Eichhorn, radical leftist of the Independent Socialists, led an armed mob; seized the HQ of Berlin
• " " Kaiser Wilhelm consents to abdicate.
• " " Social Democrats demand government from Prince Max.
• " " Friedrich Ebert assumes the chancellery.
• " " First German Republic established.
• Nov 11, 1918 First World War ended.
• Nov 19, 1918 Hitler discharged from hospital at Pasewalk.
• Mid Dec, 1918 First Freikorps unit formed; Maercker Volunteer Rifles.

1919

• Jan 1919 Independent Socialists & Spartacist League staged large protests, known as the Spartacist uprising. Large sections of Berlin seized.
• " " German Workers’ Peace party renamed German Workers Party.
• Jan 10, 1919 Battle of Berlin begins; Counter-revolution with Freikorps taking crucial role.
• Jan 13, 1919 Battle of Berlin finished.
• " " German Gov. moved to the city of Weimar.
• Mar 3, 1919 2nd Battle for Berlin; Communists seize Berlin;
• " " Gustav Noske appointed dictator of Germany.
• Mar 7, 1919 Communist Strike Committee withdraws proclamation and makes peace overtures to government.
• Mar 10, 1919 Gustav Noske orders Peoples’ Naval Division disbanded. Battle for Berlin over.
• Mar 1919 Adolf Hitler finishes job of guarding Russian prisoners.
• Apr 14, 1919 Freikorps suppress communists in Dresden.
• Apr 16, 1919 "Battle" of the Bavarian government troops at Dachau. Communists defeat republican forces.
• Apr 18, 1919 Freikorps suppress communists in Brunswick.
• Apr 27, 1919 Battle for Munich between Communists and Freikorps units.
• May 2, 1919 City of Munich taken; not declared secure until May 6th; aprox. 1200 Reds slaughtered.
• May 10, 1919 Freikorps suppress communists in Leipzig.
• Jun 22, 1919 German Reichstag ratify the Versailles Treaty.
• Jun 28, 1919 Versailles Treaty signed in the Hall of Mirrors (Palace of Versailles).

Weimar Republic

• Aug 11, 1919 The Weimar Constitution is announced.
• Sep 12, 1919 Adolf Hitler's inspection of the German Workers' Party in the Sterneckerbräu brewery, in Munich..

1920

• Jan 1920 The DAP grew to 190 members.
• Feb 20, 1920 DAP changes name to National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
• Feb 1920 Inter-Allied Control Commission order 2/3 of Freikorps disbanded.
• Feb 24, 1920 First public meeting of the NSDAP. The party announces its first programme, known as the "25 points."
• Mar 13-17, 1920 Kapp Putsch
• Mar 31, 1920 Adolf Hitler mustered out of the military.
• Apr 3, 1920 21 different Freikorps units, under the command of General Baron Oskar von Watter, annihilate the Ruhr Red uprising in five days; thousands killed.
• Apr 1920 Gov stops paying Freikorps units.
• May 10, 1920 Dr. Joseph Wirth and Walter Rathenau announce their "Policy of Fulfillment"; not received well by nationalist groups.
• Aug 11, 1920 National Disarmament Law takes effect; disbanded civil guards
• Dec 17, 1920 NSDAP buys its first paper, the Voelkischer Beobachter.
• Dec 1920 NSDAP total party membership comes to 2000.

1922

• Jan 12, 1922 Adolf Hitler sentenced to three months for disturbance of Sept 14 1921.
• Jun 24, 1922 Hitler Incarcerated.
• Jun 24, 1922 German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau assassinated
• Jul 27, 1922 Hitler released.
• Jul 1922 670 RM = 1 USD
• Aug 1922 2,000 RM = 1 USD
• Oct 28, 1922 Benito Mussolini establishes his Fascist dictatorship in Italy.
• Oct 1922 4,500 RM = 1 USD
• Nov 22, 1922 Dr. Wirth leaves office
• Nov 1922 10,000 RM = 1 USD
• Dec 27, 1922 France occupies the Ruhr.

1923

• Feb 1923 Reichsbank buys back RM; stabilizes RM at 20,000 to 1 USD
• May 4, 1923 RM 40,000 = 1 USD
• May 27, 1923 Albert Leo Schlageter, a German freebooter and saboteur was executed by a French firing squad in the Ruhr. Hitler declared him a hero that the German people was not worthy to possess.
• Jun 1, 1923 RM 70,000-1 USD
• Jun 30, 1923 RM 150,000-1USD
• Aug 1-7, 1923 RM 3,500,000-1USD
• Aug 13, 1923 Dr. Wilhelm Cuno (No party affiliation) leaves office
• Aug 15, 1923 RM 4,000,000-1USD
• Sep 1, 1923 RM 10,000,000-1USD
• Sep 24, 1923 Chancellor Stresemann ends the passive resistance in the Ruhr; infuriates the nationalists.
• Sep 30, 1923 Major Fedor von Bock crushes a coup attempt by the Black Reichswehr.
• " " RM 60,000,000-1USD
• Oct 6, 1923 Dr. Gustav Stresemann (People’s) forms 2nd cabinet
• Oct 20, 1923 General Alfred Mueller marched on Saxony to prevent a communist takeover.
• " " General Otto von Lossow in Bavaria is relieved of command by Berlin; he refuses.
• Oct 23, 1923 Communist takeover of Hamburg
• Oct 25, 1923 Hamburg uprising suppressed
• Nov 8, 1923 Beer Hall Putsch
• Nov 9, 1923 Beer Hall Putsch quelled.

1924

• Feb 26, 1924 Hitlerputsch trial begins.
• Dec 20, 1924 Hitler released from the Landsberg Prison.

1927

• May 1927 Hitler speaking ban lifted in Bavaria.

1928

• Oct 20, 1928 Alfred Hugenberg becomes head of DNVP
• March 20, 1928 NSDAP gains 2.6% of the vote in Reichstag elections.

1929

• Oct 16, 1929 Liberty Law campaign officially begins. The Nazi Party joins a coalition of conservative groups under Hugenberg's leadership to oppose the Young Plan.
• Dec 22, 1929 The Liberty Law referendum is defeated. Hitler denounces Hugenberg's leadership parlance.

1930

• Sep 1930 Hitler at trial of 3 SA Lieutenants disavows the SA goals of replacing the army and hence appeases the army.
• Sep 15 1930 - In a milestone election, Nazis gain 6 million votes in national polling to emerge as the second largest party in Germany.

1931

• May 11, 1931 Austrian Kreditanstalt collapses
• May 1931 Four million unemployed in Germany.
• Jun 20, 1931 Herbert Hoover puts moratorium on reparations.
• Jul 13, 1931 German bank crisis.
• Sep 18, 1931 Geli Raubal dies
• Oct 11, 1931 Harzburg Front formed of coalition between DNVP, Stahlhelm, and Nazi Party

1932

Political poster for the November 11, 1932 Reichstag election. "Das Volk wählt Liste 1 Nationalsozialisten Reichstagswahl." Translation: "The people are voting for list 1, the Nazis, at the Reischstag election."