1934 in Germany
Events in the year 1934 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
Head of State- President of [Germany (1919–1945)|President]:
- *Paul von Hindenburg
- *Adolf Hitler
- Chancellor:
- *Adolf Hitler
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Births
- 1 January - Hans Huber, German boxer
- 4 January - Hellmuth Karasek, German journalist, literary critic, novelist and author
- 29 January - Paul Gutama Soegijo, German musician and composer
- 8 March - Kurt Mahr, German author
- 20 March - Peter Berling, German actor
- 27 March
- * Jutta Limbach, German politician and jurist
- * Peter Schamoni, German film director
- 28 March - Siegfried Thiele, German composer
- 1 April - Elmar Faber, German book publisher
- 5 April - Roman Herzog, German politician, President of Germany
- 13 April - Siegfried Matthus, German composer
- 27 April - Jürgen Kühling, German judge
- 5 May - Alfred Freiherr von Oppenheim, German banker
- 6 May - Oskar Gottlieb Blarr, German composer
- 26 May - Klaus König, German operatic tenor
- 27 May - Uwe Friedrichsen, German actor
- 21 June - Josef Stoer, German mathematician
- 3 July
- * Klaus von Beyme, German political scientist
- * Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German general
- 10 July - Alfred Biolek, German television presenter
- 17 July
- * Rainer Kirsch, German journalist and writer
- * Horst Steinmann, German economist
- 20 July - Uwe Johnson, German writer
- 29 July — Albert Speer, Jr., German architect
- 1 August
- * Hermann Baumann, German horn player
- * Oskar Negt, German philosopher
- 29 August
- * Gerhard Lohfink, German Catholic priest and theologian
- * Horst Szymaniak, German football player
- 5 September - Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal
- 7 September - Mary Bauermeister, German artist
- 16 September - Hans A. Engelhard, German jurist and politician
- 24 September - Manfred Wörner, German politician
- 7 October — Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist
- 19 October — Eva-Maria Hagen, German actress and singer
- 15 November - Martin Bangemann, German politician
- 21 November - Gerhard Erber, German pianist
- 24 November - Wolfgang Rademann, German television producer and journalist
- 29 November - Günter Wewel, German opera singer and television presenter
- 30 November - Albert, Margrave of Meissen, German nobleman
- 1 December - Wilhelm Keim, German chemist
- 5 December - Eberhard Jüngel, German Lutheran theologian
- 15 December - Hans-Peter Lehmann, German opera director
Deaths
- 1 January — Jakob Wassermann, Jewish-German novelist
- 21 January - Paul Troost, German architect
- 29 January - Fritz Haber, German chemist
- 1 March - Wilhelm Diegelmann, German actor
- 7 April - Karl von Einem, Prussian Minister of War
- 10 June - Victor Villiger, Swiss-German chemist
- 19 June – Prince Bernhard of Lippe
- 30 June :
- * Gregor Strasser, German Imperial Army|Imperial] soldier and early Nazi
- * Kurt von Schleicher, German Imperial general, politician and former Chancellor of Germany
- * Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German politician
- * Erich Klausener, German Catholic politician
- * Herbert von Bose, German politician
- * Edmund Heines, Nazi paramilitary
- * Ferdinand von Bredow, German Generalmajor, former head of the Abwehr
- * Fritz Gerlich, German journalist and historian
- * Peter von Heydebreck, German Imperial Army officer and Nazi paramilitary
- * Karl Ernst, Nazi paramilitary
- July - Karl-Günther Heimsoth, German physician and polygraph
- 1 July
- * Edgar Julius Jung, German lawyer and political activist
- * Ernst Röhm, German Imperial Army officer and Nazi paramilitary
- 10 July - Erich Mühsam, German poet and playwright
- 13 July - Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist
- 2 August — Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician
- 15 October - Samuel von Fischer, German publisher
- 19 October – Alexander von Kluck, German general
- 20 October — Hans Böhning, World War I German flying ace
- 12 November - Walther Bensemann, German pioneer of football and founder of the country's major sports publication, Kicker
- 16 November - Carl von Linde, German engineer and scientist
- 17 November - Joachim Ringelnatz, German writer
- 5 December – Oskar von Hutier, German general