June | Sep | An initial payment of $250 million reparations is made |
| 1922 | Reparations 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 | Reparations Rathenau, Walter | |
| | Secures a reduction of reparation payments |
| 1922 | Reparations Ebert, Friedrich | |
| Oct | France is willing to accept raw material instead of currency for German reparations |
| 1923 | Reparations Marx, Wihelm | |
| Jan | 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 | Reparations Cuno, Wilhelm Carl Josef | |
| Jan 13th | German Chancellor Cuno declares "passive resistance", strikes, riots and bloody clashes of the occupation troops with workers are common |
| 1923 | Reparations Stressman, Gustav | |
| Sep 26th | New Chancellor Gustav Streseman ends the passive resistance during French occupation of the Ruhr |
| 1924 | Reparations Marx, Wihelm | |
| | At the London Conference gets agreement for Allied withdrawal from the Rhineland |
| | The Dawes Plan, the US vice president helps to craft a plan for annual German installment payments, but avoids the more troublesome issue of the total amount owed |
| 1928 | Reparations Muller, Hermann | |
| | The Young Plan, a prominent US financier works to fashion a precise new German reparations formula to replace the Dawes Plan |
| 1932 | Reparations Papen, Franz von | |
| July 9th | At the Conference in Lausanne reparations are fixed on a final sum of 3 billion Goldmarks, this gives a total of paid reparations of 53 Billion Goldmarks |