1937 in Germany

Events in the year 1937 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Head of State and Chancellor

Adolf Hitler

Events

10 March — The Encyclical Mit brennender Sorge of Pope Pius XI is published in Nazi Germany.
6 May — Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirteen passengers, 22 crew and one member of the ground crew were killed.
7 May — Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion Fighter Group, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
28 May — Volkswagen, state-owned carmaker, is formed to produce the new people's car.
8 June — Carl Orff's Carmina Burana premieres in Frankfurt, Germany.
15 July — Buchenwald Concentration Camp opened
18 July - Haus der Kunst in Munich opened
20 July — The Geibeltbad Pirna is opened in Dresden, Germany.
6–13 September — The 9th Nazi Party Congress is held and titled the "Rally of Labour" to highlight the reduction of unemployment in Germany since the Nazi rise to power.
25 September–30 September — Italian leader Benito Mussolini makes a state visit to Germany, meeting Hitler in Munich and Berlin, touring several cities, and attending a military parade in the capital; the visit was widely staged as a symbol of the strengthening Rome–Berlin Axis.
13 October — Germany, in a note to Brussels, guarantees the inviolability and integrity of Belgium so long as the latter abstains from military action against Germany
5 November — In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people
16 November — Sabena OO-AUB Ostend crash
Date unknown — Otto Bayer and his coworkers at IG Farben in Leverkusen first made polyurethanes.
Date unknown — The opioid Methadone is synthesized in Germany by scientists Max Bockmühl and Gustav Ehrhart.
Date unknown — Konrad Zuse submits patents in Germany based on his Z1 computer design anticipating von Neumann architecture.

Births

2 January — Martin Lauer, German sprinter
15 January — Walter Stöhrer, German painter
31 January — Hans Dresig, Professor for Applied mechanics and Theory of Mechanisms and Machines
2 February — Lea Ackermann, German nun and activist
7 February — Doris Gercke, German writer
8 February — Manfred Krug, German actor
13 February — Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut and pilot
17 February — Rita Süssmuth, German politician
20 February — Robert Huber, German biochemist and Nobel laureate
22 February — Rolf Schafstall, German footballer
27 February – Peter Hamm, German poet, author, journalist, editor and literary critic
18 March — Rudi Altig, German cyclist
19 March — Egon Krenz, German politician
20 March — Helmut Recknagel, German ski jumper
22 March
* Armin Hary, German sprinter
* Peter Vogel, German film actor
2 April — Alexandra Kluge, German actress
3 April — Annekathrin Bürger, German actress
12 April — Barbara Aland, German theologian
24 April — Otmar Gutmann, German TV producer, animator and director
25 April — Wolfgang Zapf, German sociologe
2 May – Gisela Elsner, German writer
3 May – Hans Cieslarczyk, German football player
23 May — Rupert Scholz, German politician
29 May — Alwin Schockemöhle, German equestrian
7 June — Claus Peymann, German theatre director and manager
9 June — Harald Rosenthal, German scientist
14 June — Hans-Ulrich Klose, German politician
15 June — Rolf Riehm, German composer
24 June — Hans Tiedge, German spy
25 June — Karin Graßhof, German judge
1 July – Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, German jurist
4 July – Wolf von Lojewski, German television journalist
5 July — Anke Fuchs, German politician
7 July — Konrad Wirnhier, German sport shooter
12 July - Helga Mees, German fencer
16 August — Gerhard Pohl, German politician
20 August — Georg Thoma, German skier
1 September - Peter Gaehtgens, German physiologist
7 September - Birgit Breuel, German politician
27 September - Franz Grundheber, German operatic baritone
1 October — Everhardt Franßen, German judge
13 October — Rudolf Seiters, German politician
27 October — Peter Lustig, German television presenter and author of children's books
26 July – Peter Fleischmann, German film director
29 October — Michael Ponti, German pianist
1 November
* Jürgen Echternach, German politician
* Witta Pohl, German actress
3 November — Rolf-Ernst Breuer, German businessman
11 November – Marlene Schmidt, German actress and beauty queen
16 November – Lothar Späth, German politician
20 November - René Kollo, German tenor
23 November - Karl Mildenberger, German boxer
26 November - Bruno Steinhoff, German businessman
29 November - Jo Brauner, German journalist
20 December - Manfred Lahnstein, German politician
29 December — Dieter Thomas Heck, German actor
31 December - Paul Spiegel, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany

Deaths

4 January – Paul Behncke, German admiral
11 February – Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick, German ophthalmologist
12 March — Julius Geppert, German pharmacologist
18 March — Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general
18 April – Max von Gallwitz, German general
4 May – Selma Lohse, German politician
7 May – Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain of the Hindenburg
14 July – Walter Simons, German diplomat
30 July - Hans von Rosenberg, German diplomat and politician
29 September – Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer
7 October - Renate Müller, German actress and singer
9 October - Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
10 October – Walter Gronostay, German composer
27 November — Wilhelm Weinberg, German physician and geneticist
12 December - Alfred Abel, German actor
20 December - Erich Ludendorff, German general