1932 in Germany
Events in the year 1932 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
PresidentChancellor
- 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