1932 in Germany

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Events in the year 1932 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

President

Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)

Chancellor

Heinrich Brüning (Centre) to 30 May, then from 1 June Franz von Papen (Centre to 3 June, then Non-partisan) then 17 November, then from 3 December Kurt von Schleicher (Non-partisan)

Events

25 February – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.^[1]
10 April – Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected president of Germany.
30 May – Chancellor Heinrich Brüning resigns. President Hindenburg asks Franz von Papen to form a new government.^[2]
16 June – Bans against the SS and SA are lifted.^[3]
17 July – Altona Bloody Sunday: In Altona, clashes break out between the police, Nazi SA members and Communist party supporters during a National Socialist demonstration; 18 are killed. Many other political street fights follow.^[4]
31 July – Federal election: The Nazi Party gains a plurality and the Communists also gain seats. This creates a "negative majority" that prevents any majority coalition that does not include one of the two parties.
30 August – Hermann Göring becomes the head of the German Parliament
6 November – Federal election: The Nazis lose many seats, but retain the plurality as the Communists continue to gain. (This is the last free and fair election held throughout East-Germany until 1990.)
21 November – President Hindenburg begins negotiations with Adolf Hitler about the formation of a new government.
3 December – President Hindenburg names Kurt von Schleicher as German chancellor.
25 December – A patent is filed for Prontosil, an antibacterial drug discovered in Wuppertal.^[5]

Births

6 January - Max Streibl, German politician (died 1998)
7 January - Wolfgang Reichmann, German actor (died 1991)
31 January - Michael Degen, German actor
2 February - Franz Kamphaus, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (died 2024)
4 February - Gerhard Hund, German mathematician and computer scientist (died 2024)
7 February - Anton Schlembach, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (died 2020)
9 February - Gerhard Richter, German visual artist
14 February - Alexander Kluge, German film director
18 February - Andreas Meyer-Hanno, German theater and opera director (died 2006)
25 February - Hans Apel, German politician (died 2011)^[6]
25 March - Wolfgang Helfrich, German physicist and inventor
2 April - Siegfried Rauch, German actor (died 2018)
16 April - Eberhard Panitz, German writer and screenwriter (died 2021)
8 May - Arnulf Baring, German author, historian, political scientist and journalist (died 2019)
21 May - Gabriele Wohmann, German novelist (died 2015)
26 May - Frank Beyer, German film director (died 2006)
2 June - Bruno Schleinstein, German actor (died 2010)
10 June - Philipp Jenninger, German politician (died 2018)
21 June - Friedrich Ostermann, German Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop from Münster (died 2018)
25 June - Clark M. Blatteis, German-born American physiologist (died 2021)
3 July - Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, German politician (died 2015)
4 July - Marlene Lenz, German politician and translator
10 July - Jürgen Becker, German poet (died 2024)
14 July - Princess Margarita of Baden, German noblewoman (died 2013)^[7]
30 July - Michael Bruno, German-born former governor of Israel's central bank and a Chief Economist of the World Bank (died 1996)
10 August
- Alexander Goehr, German-born British composer (died 2024)
- Jürgen Holtz, German actor (died 2020)
4 September - Joe Viera, German jazz saxophonist (died 2024)
8 September - Herbert Leuninger, German Roman Catholic priest and refugee rights activist (died 2020)
19 September - Stefanie Zweig, German writer (died 2014)
24 September - Walter Wallmann, German politician (died 2013)
16 October - Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, German politician (died 1991)
28 October - Gerhart Baum, German politician
29 October - Charlotte Knobloch, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany
1 November - Edgar Reitz, German film director
14 November - Gunter Sachs, German-Swiss photographer and art collector (died 2011)
21 November - Heinrich Lummer, German politician (CDU) (died 2019)
22 November - Günter Sawitzki, German international goalkeeper (died 2020)
25 November – Franz Grave, German Roman Catholic prelate (died 2022)
28 November – Kurt Horres, German stage director (died 2023)
19 December – Bernhard Vogel, German politician
31 December – Felix Rexhausen, German journalist (died 1992)

Deaths

13 January – Sophia of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1870)^[8]
24 January – Eugen Boermel, German sculptor, writer and inventor (born 1858)
25 January – Ernst Friedberger, German immunologist and hygienist (born 1875)
6 February – Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German American landscape painter (born 1831)
18 February – Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Germane last King of Saxony (1904–1918) and a member of the House of Wettin (born 1865)
15 March – Friedrich Radszuweit, German publisher and author (born 1876)
2 April – Hugo von Kathen, German general (born 1855)
4 April – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist (born 1853)
6 April – Max Lenz, German historian (born 1850)
26 June – Ernst Scholz, German lawyer and politician (born 1874)
2 September – Christian Wilhelm Karl Ewald (born 1852)
20 September – Max Slevogt, German painter (born 1868)
3 October – Max Wolf, German astronomer (born 1863)
23 October – Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner, German politician (born 1845)
11 November – Ludwig Hoffmann, German architect (born 1852)
10 December – Eugen Bamberger, German chemist (born 1857)
18 December – Eduard Bernstein, German politician (born 1851)

References

^ Overy, R. J. (1996). The Penguin historical atlas of the Third Reich. London New York: Penguin Books Ltd. Penguin Books USA Inc. p. 117. ISBN 9780140513301.
^ Patch, William (2006). Heinrich Brüning and the dissolution of the Weimar Republic. Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 258. ISBN 9780521025416.
^ Eyck, Erich (1956). Geschichte der Weimarer Republik. Zweiter Band: Von der Konferenz von Locarno bis zu Hitlers Machtübernahme. 2. Aufl. [History of the Weimar Republic. Second volume: From the Locarno Conference to Hitler's seizure of power. 2nd ed.] (in German). Erlenbach-Zürich / Stuttgart: Eugen Rentsch Verlag. p. 502.
^ Hamburg im Dritten Reich [Hamburg in the Third Reich] (in German). Göttingen: Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg [Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg]. 2005. p. 53.
^ Lesch JE (2007). "Chapter 3: Prontosil". The first miracle drugs: how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine. Oxford University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-19-518775-5.
^ Who's who in European Institutions and Organizations. Who's Who The International Red Series Verlag. 1982. p. 22.
^ "Obituaries; HRH Princess Margarita of Baden". Daily Telegraph.
^ Gelardi, Julia P. (2005). Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 357–8. ISBN 0312324243.

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[1] Overy, R. J. (1996). The Penguin historical atlas of the Third Reich. London New York: Penguin Books Ltd. Penguin Books USA Inc. p. 117. ISBN 9780140513301.

[2] Patch, William (2006). Heinrich Brüning and the dissolution of the Weimar Republic. Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 258. ISBN 9780521025416.

[3] Eyck, Erich (1956). Geschichte der Weimarer Republik. Zweiter Band: Von der Konferenz von Locarno bis zu Hitlers Machtübernahme. 2. Aufl. [History of the Weimar Republic. Second volume: From the Locarno Conference to Hitler's seizure of power. 2nd ed.] (in German). Erlenbach-Zürich / Stuttgart: Eugen Rentsch Verlag. p. 502.

[4] Hamburg im Dritten Reich [Hamburg in the Third Reich] (in German). Göttingen: Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg [Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg]. 2005. p. 53.

[5] Lesch JE (2007). "Chapter 3: Prontosil". The first miracle drugs: how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine. Oxford University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-19-518775-5.

[6] Who's who in European Institutions and Organizations. Who's Who The International Red Series Verlag. 1982. p. 22.

[7] "Obituaries; HRH Princess Margarita of Baden". Daily Telegraph.

[8] Gelardi, Julia P. (2005). Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 357–8. ISBN 0312324243.

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