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| 1916 | Groener, Karl Eduard Wilhelm |  |
| Takes over control of the war economy from Ludendorf when the Kriegsamt is established |
| 1921 | Wirth, Karl Joseph | |
| Sep An economic crisis grips Germany which causes runaway inflation and ends additional reparations installments |
| 4th Nov German currency begins to collapse |
| 1922 | Cuno, Wilhelm Carl Josef | |
| Allied governments grant Germany a temporary moratorium on reparations payments in the hope that their economy would recover and enable the resumption of regular installment payments, France bitterly opposes the moratorium |
| 1922 | Ebert, Friedrich | |
| Oct France is willing to accept raw material instead of currency for German reparations |
| 1923 | Ebert, Friedrich | |
| Ruhr Occupation of the Ruhr leads to hyper-inflation |
| Ruhr The Republic claimed it could no longer afford the reparations payments required by the Versailles treaty, and the government defaulted on some payments, in response, French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr |
| 15th Nov Ruhr A new currency, the Rentenmark, is introduced at the rate of 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) Papiermark for 1 Rentenmark. At that time, 1 U.S. dollar was equal to 4.2 Rentenmark |
| 1923 | Marx, Wihelm | |
| Ruhr The Republic claimed it could no longer afford the reparations payments required by the Versailles treaty, and the government defaulted on some payments, in response, French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr |
| Jan Ruhr At the end of the reparations moratorium, Germany cannot resume payments and defaults, France, accompanied by a token Belgian force, marches into the Ruhr Valley and sets up a military occupation |
| 1923 | Stressman, Gustav | |
| Aug To further stabilise the economy Stressman reduces spending and bureaucracy while increasing taxes |
| 13th Aug Six days after the Munich putch a reform of the German currency takes place and the Rentenmark is introduced, this effectively ends inflation |
| 13th Aug Stresemann issues the Rentenmark, to halt the extreme hyperinflation crippling German society and the economy. It was successful because Stresemann refused to issue more currency, the cause of the inflationary spiral |
| Oct Inflation reaches an all time high, 1 US-Dollar costs 40 Billion Marks |
| Oct War bonds (which are rated by Reichsmark, not Goldmark like the reparations) can be paid back without problems, savings on banks (or in war bonds) are lost, leading to widespread poverty |
| 15th Nov Old Reichsmark 4,200,000,000 = 1 USAdollar |
| 15th Nov Rentenmark issued; pegged to the Gold Standard; Rentenmark 4.2 = 1 USAdollar; at this time |
| 1924 | Stressman, Gustav | |
| 9th April The Dawes Plan is put forward to stabilize the economic situation in Europe, to enable the Germans to pay their reparations and the Allies to pay their debts to the US |
| 1927 | Marx, Wihelm | |
| 13th May Germany's economy collapses |
| 1930 | Bruening, Heinrich | |
| Invokes article 48 to impose deflationary policies |
| 1933 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 21st Mar The "battle for work" begins |
| 1936 | Goering, Herman | |
| Sep Berlin Directs the 4 year economic plan in preparation for War |
| 1939 | Speer, Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert | |
| Hitler agrees Speer's request to centralize iron & stell distribution via the GBI |
| 1948 | Erhard, Ludwig | |
| 20th June Bonn Announces controls over wages, prices & supplies |
| 1950 | Adenauer, Konrad | |
| 1st Mar Bonn Rationing ends in West Germany, apart from sugar |
| 21st Mar Bonn Advocates economic union with France |
| 1982 | Schmidt, Helmut Heinrich Waldemar | |
| Bonn Unemployment rises from 582,000 in 1974 to 1.8 million in 1982 |
| 1997 | Kohl, Helmut | |
| 22nd May Presents the Joint Initiative for More Jobs in Eastern Germany |
| 2006 | Merkel, Angela Dorothea | |
| Many economic commentators have referred to the 'Merkel factor', which has apparently caused a rapid rise in consumer confidence and market spending |
