1934 in Germany

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Events in the year 1934 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Head of State

• Paul von Hindenburg (President) (Non-partisan) to 2 August, then Adolf Hitler (the Führer) (Nazi Party)

Chancellor

• Adolf Hitler (Nazi Party)

Events

• 1 January — Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring".
• 10 January — Marinus van der Lubbe is executed in Germany.
• 26 January — The 10 year German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed by Germany and the Second Polish Republic.
• 20 March — All the police forces in Germany come under the command of Heinrich Himmler.
• 29 May - 31 May — The Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church meets in Barmen, Germany to write the Barmen Declaration.
• 30 June —
  • The Nazi SA camp Oranienburg becomes a national camp, taken over by the SS.
  • Night of the Long Knives: Nazis purge the SA.[1]
• 10 July — German Social Democrat and author Erich Mühsam is killed in Oranienburg concentration camp.
• 2 August — President Paul von Hindenburg dies and Adolf Hitler declares himself Führer of Germany, becoming head of state as well as Chancellor.
• 19 August — German voters retroactively endorse Hitler's assumption of the powers of head of state in a referendum, with 89.9% in favor; Hitler effectively becomes the absolute dictator of Germany.[2]
• 5–10 September — The 6th Nazi Party Congress is held in Nuremberg, attended by about 700,000 Nazi Party supporters and the Leni Riefenstahl film Triumph des Willens is made at this rally.[3][4]

Births

• January 1 - Hans Huber, German boxer
• January 4 - Hellmuth Karasek, German journalist, literary critic, novelist and author (died 2015)
• March 20 - Peter Berling, German actor (died 2017)
• March 27 - Jutta Limbach, German politician and jurist (died 2016)
• March 27 - Peter Schamoni, German film director (died 2011)
• April 1 Elmar Faber, German book publisher (died 2017)
• April 5 - Roman Herzog, German politician (died 2017)
• April 27 - Jürgen Kühling, German judge (died 2019)
• May 27 - Uwe Friedrichsen, German actor (died 2016)
• June 21 - Josef Stoer, German mathematician
• July 3 - Klaus von Beyme, German political scientist
• July 3 - Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German general
• July 10 - Alfred Biolek, German television presenter
• July 17 - Rainer Kirsch, German journalist and writer (died 2015)
• July 20 - Uwe Johnson, German writer (died 1984)
• July 29 — Albert Speer, Jr., German architect (died 2017)
• August 29 - Horst Szymaniak, German football player (died 2009)
• September 5 - Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal
• September 16 - Hans A. Engelhard, German jurist and politician (died 2008)
• September 24 -Manfred Wörner, German politician (died 1994)
• October 7 — Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (died 1976)
• November 15 - Martin Bangemann, German politician
• November 24 - Wolfgang Rademann, German television producer and journalist (died 2016)
• November 30 - Albert, Margrave of Meissen, German nobleman (died 2012)

Deaths

• 1 January — Jakob Wassermann, Jewish-German novelist (born 1873)
• 21 January - Paul Troost, German architect (born 1878)
• 29 January - Fritz Haber, German chemist (born 1868)
• 7 April - Karl von Einem, Prussian Minister of War (born 1853)
• 30 June (assassinations associated with The Night of the Long Knives):
  • Gregor Strasser, German Imperial soldier and early Nazi (born 1892)
  • Kurt von Schleicher, German Imperial general, politician and former Chancellor of Germany (born 1882)
  • Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German politician (born 1862)
  • Erich Klausener, German Catholic politician (born 1885)
  • Herbert von Bose, German politician (born 1893)
  • Edmund Heines, Nazi paramilitary (born 1897)
  • Ferdinand von Bredow, German Generalmajor, former head of the Abwehr (born 1884)
  • Fritz Gerlich, German journalist and historian (born 1883)
  • Peter von Heydebreck, German Imperial Army officer and Nazi paramilitary (born 1889)
  • Karl Ernst, Nazi paramilitary (born 1904)
• July - Karl-Günther Heimsoth, German physician and polygraph (born 1899)
• 1 July - Edgar Julius Jung
• 2 July - Ernst Röhm, German Imperial Army officer and Nazi paramilitary (born 1887)
• 10 July - Erich Mühsam, German poet and playwright (born 1878)
• 2 August — Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician (born 1847)
• 15 October - Samuel von Fischer, German publisher (born 1859)
• 20 October — Hans Böhning, World War I German flying ace (born 1893)
• 12 November - Walther Bensemann, German pioneer of football and founder of the country's major sports publication, Kicker.(born 1873)
• 16 November - Carl von Linde, German engineer and scientist (born 1842)
• 17 November - Joachim Ringelnatz, German writer (born 1883)

References

1. "Night of the Long Knives - Summary & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
2. "Timeline of Events 1933-1938". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC.
3. Triumph des Willens (1935)
4. Propaganda in Nazi Germany