1936 in Germany

Events in the year 1936 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Head of State and Chancellor

Adolf Hitler

Events

6 February — The IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
7 March — In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
29 March — German election and referendum, 1936
26 June — Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical, functional helicopter, first flown.
1 August — The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, at the end of the first ever Olympic torch relay. It is also the first occasion in world history when a sporting event is given television coverage.
The first German volunteers on the nationalist side of the Spanish civil war leave for Spain.
30 August — Ernest Nash flees Germany for Rome.
8–14 September — The 8th Nazi Party Congress is held and called the "Rally of Honour" in reference to the remilitarization of the Rhineland in March.
26 November — The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Germany and Japan.

Births

10 January — Walter Bodmer, German-English geneticist and academic
14 January — Reiner Klimke, German equestrian
23 January — Horst Mahler, German lawyer and political activist
27 January — Wolfgang Böhmer, German politician
9 February — Georg Sterzinsky, German cardinal
4 March — Aribert Reimann, German composer
9 March — Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, head of house of Waldeck and Pyrmont
11 March — Harald zur Hausen, German virologist
13 March — Lothar Ahrendt, German politician
16 March — Elisabeth Volkmann, German actress
30 March — Erwin J. Haeberle, German physician
6 April — Manfred Schoof, German jazz trumpeter
8 April — Klaus Löwitsch, German actor
13 April – Dieter Klöcker, German clarinetist
19 April – Bernhard Klee, German conductor and pianist
22 April — Dieter Kronzucker, German journalist
9 May — Ulrich Kienzle, German journalist
12 May — Klaus Doldinger, German saxophonist
16 May
*Karl Lehmann, German Roman Catholic Cardinal prelate, Bishop of Mainz
*Manfred Stolpe, German politician
21 May — Günter Blobel, German biologist
26 May — Franz Magnis-Suseno, German-born Indonesian Jesuit priest
29 May
*Wyn Hoop, German singer
*Klaus Winter, German judge
1 June — Peter Sodann, German actor
9 June — Jürgen Schmude, German politician
10 June — Thomas Hoepker, German photographer
14 June — Wolfgang Behrendt, German boxer
21 June — Hans Köhler, German swimmer
22 July — Klaus Bresser, German journalist and television presenter
25 June — Bert Hölldobler, German sociobiologist and evolutionary biologist
28 June — Walter Köstner, German fencer
1 July — Lea Rosh, German television journalist, publicist, entrepreneur and political activist
2 July — Rex Gildo, German singer
7 July — Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician
22 July — Klaus Bresser, German journalist
1 August — Carl, Duke of Württemberg, German nobleman
5 August — Hans Hugo Klein, German judge
12 August — Hans Haacke, German-born American conceptual artist
20 August — Kessler Twins, German singers
29 September — Hans D. Ochs, German immunologist
1 October — Lea Rosh, German television journalist
5 October — Annerose Schmidt, German pianist
10 October — Gerhard Ertl, German physicist
12 October — Inge Brück, German singer
13 October — Hans Joachim Meyer, German linguist and politician
5 November — Uwe Seeler, German footballer
15 November — Wolf Biermann, German singer and songwriter
2 December — Peter Duesberg, German molecular biologist
3 December — Lothar Gall, German historian
8 December — Helmut Markwort, German journalist and magazine founder
17 December — Klaus Kinkel, German politician

Deaths

16 January - Oskar Barnack, German inventor and German photographer
6 February - Wilhelm Solf, German diplomat
20 February — Max Schreck, German actor
9 April - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist
18 April - Richard Lipinski, German politician
1 May – Ernst Reicher, German actor
4 May - Ludwig von Falkenhausen, German general
8 May - Oswald Spengler, German historian
22 May - Joseph Koeth, German politician
3 June – Walther Wever, German general, pre-World War II Luftwaffe commander
22 June –Moritz Schlick, German philosopher and physicist
24 July - Georg Michaelis, German politician, former chancellor of Germany
20 August - Heinrich Cunow, German politician
1 September - Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf, German general
7 September — Erich Büttner, German painter
9 October — Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski, German writer
19 December - Theodor Wiegand, German archaeologist
27 December Hans von Seeckt, German chief of staff