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| 1925, Feb. 28 |
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| Death of President Ebert. | 1 |
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| March 29 |
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| Presidential election. None of the seven candidates received the needed majority, but the Nationalist candidate, Karl Jarrès, was in the lead, with 10,416,655 votes against 7,802,496 for Otto Braun (Socialist). The constitution provided for a second election, in which the candidate receiving the largest number of votes should be elected. The Socialists and Democrats supported Wilhelm Marx, leader of the Center, while the Right parties abandoned Jarrès in favor of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, in retirement since 1919. The Communists put forward Ernst Thälmann. | 2 |
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| April 26 |
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| HINDENBURG ELECTED PRESIDENT, with 14,655,766 votes against Marx's 13,751,615. Thälmann polled almost 2,000,000 votes. | 3 |
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| Nov. 29 |
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| The Prussian government settled the Hohenzollern claims, leaving the former emperor large tracts of land and many estates. | 4 |
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| Dec. 5 |
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| Resignation of the Luther cabinet. This caused a deadlock that was broken only by Hindenburg's threat to invoke Article 48. Luther ultimately reformed his cabinet. | 5 |
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