1932 in Germany

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Events in the year 1932 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

President

• Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)

Chancellor

• Heinrich Brüning (Centre) to 30 May, then from 1 June Franz von Papen (Centre to 3 June, then Non-partisan) then 17 November, then from 3 December Kurt von Schleicher (Non-partisan)

Events

• 25 February – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.[1]
• 10 April – Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected president of Germany.[2]
• 30 May – Chancellor Heinrich Brüning resigns. President Hindenburg asks Franz von Papen to form a new government.[3]
• 16 June – Bans against the SS and SA are lifted.[4]
• 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.[5]
• 31 July – Federal election: The Nazi Party gains a plurality and the Communists also gain seats.[6][7] 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.[8]
• 6 November – Federal election: The Nazis lose many seats,[9] but retain the plurality as the Communists continue to gain. (This is the last free and fair election held throughout East-Germany until 1990.)
• 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.[10][11]
• 25 December – A patent is filed for Prontosil, an antibacterial drug discovered in Wuppertal.[12]

Births

• 6 January - Max Streibl, German politician (died 1998)[13]
• 7 January - Wolfgang Reichmann, German actor (died 1991)[14]
• 31 January - Michael Degen, German actor
• 2 February - Franz Kamphaus, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (died 2024)[15]
• 4 February - Gerhard Hund, German mathematician and computer scientist (died 2024)
• 7 February - Anton Schlembach, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (died 2020)
• 9 February - Gerhard Richter, German visual artist
• 14 February - Alexander Kluge, German film director
• 18 February - Andreas Meyer-Hanno, German theater and opera director (died 2006)
• 25 February - Hans Apel, German politician (died 2011)[16]
• 25 March - Wolfgang Helfrich, German physicist and inventor
• 2 April - Siegfried Rauch, German actor (died 2018)
• 16 April - Eberhard Panitz, German writer and screenwriter (died 2021)
• 8 May - Arnulf Baring, German author, historian, political scientist and journalist (died 2019)
• 21 May - Gabriele Wohmann, German novelist (died 2015)
• 26 May - Frank Beyer, German film director (died 2006)
• 2 June - Bruno Schleinstein, German actor (died 2010)
• 10 June - Philipp Jenninger, German politician (died 2018)
• 21 June - Friedrich Ostermann, German Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop from Münster (died 2018)
• 25 June - Clark M. Blatteis, German-born American physiologist (died 2021)
• 3 July - Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, German politician (died 2015)
• 4 July - Marlene Lenz, German politician and translator
• 10 July - Jürgen Becker, German poet (died 2024)
• 14 July - Princess Margarita of Baden, German noblewoman (died 2013)[17]
• 30 July - Michael Bruno, German-born former governor of Israel's central bank and a Chief Economist of the World Bank (died 1996)
• 10 August
  • Alexander Goehr, German-born British composer (died 2024)
  • Jürgen Holtz, German actor (died 2020)
• 4 September - Joe Viera, German jazz saxophonist (died 2024)
• 8 September - Herbert Leuninger, German Roman Catholic priest and refugee rights activist (died 2020)
• 19 September - Stefanie Zweig, German writer (died 2014)
• 24 September - Walter Wallmann, German politician (died 2013)
• 16 October - Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, German politician (died 1991)
• 28 October - Gerhart Baum, German politician
• 29 October - Charlotte Knobloch, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany
• 1 November - Edgar Reitz, German film director
• 14 November - Gunter Sachs, German-Swiss photographer and art collector (died 2011)
• 21 November - Heinrich Lummer, German politician (CDU) (died 2019)
• 22 November - Günter Sawitzki, German international goalkeeper (died 2020)
• 25 November – Franz Grave, German Roman Catholic prelate (died 2022)
• 28 November – Kurt Horres, German stage director (died 2023)
• 19 December – Bernhard Vogel, German politician
• 31 December – Felix Rexhausen, German journalist (died 1992)

Deaths

• 13 January – Sophia of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1870)[18]
• 24 January – Eugen Boermel, German sculptor, writer and inventor (born 1858)
• 25 January – Ernst Friedberger, German immunologist and hygienist (born 1875)
• 6 February – Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German American landscape painter (born 1831)
• 18 February – Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Germane last King of Saxony (1904–1918) and a member of the House of Wettin (born 1865)
• 15 March – Friedrich Radszuweit, German publisher and author (born 1876)
• 2 April – Hugo von Kathen, German general (born 1855)
• 4 April – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist (born 1853)
• 6 April – Max Lenz, German historian (born 1850)
• 26 June – Ernst Scholz, German lawyer and politician (born 1874)
• 2 September – Christian Wilhelm Karl Ewald (born 1852)
• 20 September – Max Slevogt, German painter (born 1868)
• 3 October – Max Wolf, German astronomer (born 1863)
• 23 October – Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner, German politician (born 1845)
• 11 November – Ludwig Hoffmann, German architect (born 1852)
• 10 December – Eugen Bamberger, German chemist (born 1857)
• 18 December – Eduard Bernstein, German politician (born 1851)

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