1932 in Germany

Events in the year 1932 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

President

Paul von Hindenburg

Chancellor

Heinrich Brüning to 30 May, then from 1 June Franz von Papen then 17 November, then from 3 December Kurt von Schleicher

Events

25 February – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
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.
16 June – Bans against the SS and SA are lifted.
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.
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.
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.

Births

6 January - Max Streibl, German politician
7 January - Wolfgang Reichmann, German actor
18 January - Peter Stuhlmacher, German Protestant theologian
2 February - Franz Kamphaus, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
4 February - Gerhard Hund, German mathematician and computer scientist
7 February - Anton Schlembach, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
9 February - Gerhard Richter, German visual artist
14 February - Alexander Kluge, German film director
18 February - Andreas Meyer-Hanno, German theater and opera director
25 February - Hans Apel, German politician
26 March - Wolfgang Helfrich, German physicist and inventor
2 April - Siegfried Rauch, German actor
6 April - Helmut Griem, German actor and director
9 April - Hans Dieter Beck, German publisher
16 April - Eberhard Panitz, German writer and screenwriter
8 May - Arnulf Baring, German author, historian, political scientist and journalist
21 May - Gabriele Wohmann, German novelist
26 May - Frank Beyer, German film director
2 June - Bruno Schleinstein, German actor
10 June - Philipp Jenninger, German politician
21 June - Friedrich Ostermann, German Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop from Münster
25 June - Clark M. Blatteis, German-born American physiologist
3 July - Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, German politician
4 July - Marlene Lenz, German politician and translator
10 July - Jürgen Becker, German poet
14 July - Princess Margarita of Baden, German noblewoman
30 July - Michael Bruno, German-born former governor of Israel's central bank and a Chief Economist of the World Bank
10 August
* Alexander Goehr, German-born British composer
* Jürgen Holtz, German actor
4 September - Joe Viera, German jazz saxophonist
8 September - Herbert Leuninger, German Roman Catholic priest and refugee rights activist
19 September - Stefanie Zweig, German writer
24 September - Walter Wallmann, German politician
29 September - Rainer Weiss, German-born American physicist
30 September - Wilhelm Brückner, German violin maker
14 October – Wolf Vostell, German artist
16 October - Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, German politician
28 October - Gerhart Baum, German lawyer and politician
29 October - Charlotte Knobloch, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany
1 November - Edgar Reitz, German film director
10 November - Roland Bulirsch, German mathematician
14 November - Gunter Sachs, German-born Swiss photographer and art collector
15 November - Hans Roericht, German designer
21 November - Heinrich Lummer, German politician
22 November - Günter Sawitzki, German international goalkeeper
25 November – Franz Grave, German Roman Catholic prelate
26 November – Christfried Schmidt, composer
28 November – Kurt Horres, German stage director
8 December – Claus Luthe, German car designer
19 December – Bernhard Vogel, German politician
31 December – Felix Rexhausen, German journalist

Deaths

13 January – Sophia of Prussia, Prussian princess
24 January – Eugen Boermel, German sculptor, writer and inventor
25 January – Ernst Friedberger, German immunologist and hygienist
6 February – Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German American landscape painter
18 February – Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Germane last King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin
15 March – Friedrich Radszuweit, German publisher and author
2 April – Hugo von Kathen, German general
4 April – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist
6 April – Max Lenz, German historian
26 June – Ernst Scholz, German lawyer and politician
2 September – Christian Wilhelm Karl Ewald
20 September – Max Slevogt, German painter
3 October – Max Wolf, German astronomer
23 October – Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner, German politician
11 November – Ludwig Hoffmann, German architect
10 December – Eugen Bamberger, German chemist
18 December – Eduard Bernstein, German politician