# 1937 in Germany

Events in the year 1937 in Germany.

## Incumbents
### National level

Head of State and Chancellor
* Adolf Hitler (the Führer) (Nazi Party)

## 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" (Reichsparteitag der Arbeit) to highlight the reduction of unemployment in Germany since the Nazi rise to power.
* 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 (recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum)
* 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 (died 2019)
* 15 January — Walter Stöhrer, German painter (died 2000)
* 31 January — Hans Dresig, Professor for Applied mechanics and Theory of Mechanisms and Machines (died 2018)
* 2 February — Lea Ackermann, German nun and activist (died 2023)
* 8 February — Manfred Krug, German actor (died 2016)
* 13 February — Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut and pilot (died 2019)
* 17 February — Rita Süssmuth, German politician (CDU)
* 20 February — Robert Huber, German biochemist and Nobel laureate
* 22 February — Rolf Schafstall, German footballer (died 2018)
* 18 March — Rudi Altig, German cyclist (died 2016)
* 19 March — Egon Krenz, German politician
* 20 March — Helmut Recknagel, German ski jumper
* 22 March
** Armin Hary, German sprinter
** Peter Vogel, German film actor (died 1978 in Austria)
* 2 April — Alexandra Kluge, German actress (died 2017)
* 3 April — Annekathrin Bürger, German actress
* 12 April — Barbara Aland, German theologian (died 2024)
* 24 April — Otmar Gutmann, German TV producer, animator and director (died 1993)
* 25 April — Wolfgang Zapf, German sociologe (died 2018)
* 2 May – Gisela Elsner, German writer (died 1992)
* 3 May – Hans Cieslarczyk, German football player (died 2020)
* 23 May — Rupert Scholz, German politician
* 29 May — Alwin Schockemöhle, German equestrian
* 14 June — Hans-Ulrich Klose, German politician
* 24 June — Hans Tiedge, German spy (died 2011)
* 25 June — Karin Grasshof, German judge
* 1 July – Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, German jurist (died 2021)
* 4 July – Wolf von Lojewski, German television journalist
* 5 July — Anke Fuchs, German politician (died 2019)
* 7 July — Konrad Wirnhier, German sport shooter (died 2002)
* 12 July - Helga Mees, German fencer (died 2014)
* 16 August — Gerhard Pohl, German politician (died 2012)
* 20 August — Georg Thoma, German skier
* 7 September - Birgit Breuel, German politician
* 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 (died 2016)
* 26 July – Peter Fleischmann, German film director (died 2021)
* 29 October — Michael Ponti, German pianist (died 2022)
* 1 November
** Jürgen Echternach, German politician (died 2006)
** Witta Pohl, German actress (died 2011)
* 3 November — Rolf-Ernst Breuer, German businessman (died 2024)
* 11 November – Marlene Schmidt, German actress and beauty queen
* 16 November – Lothar Späth, German politician (died 2016)
* 20 November - René Kollo, German tenor
* 23 November - Karl Mildenberger, German boxer (died 2018)
* 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 (died 2018)
* 31 December - Paul Spiegel, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (died 2006)

## Deaths

* 4 January – Paul Behncke, German admiral (born 1869)
* 11 February – Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick, German ophthalmologist (born 1852)
* 12 March — Julius Geppert, German pharmacologist (born 1856)
* 18 March — Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general (born 1852)
* 18 April – Max von Gallwitz, German general (born 1852)
* 4 May – Selma Lohse, German politician (born 1883)
* 7 May – Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain of the Hindenburg (b. 1886)
* 14 July – Walter Simons, German diplomat (born 1861)
* 30 July - Hans von Rosenberg, German diplomat and politician (born 1874)
* 29 September – Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer (born 1878)
* 7 October - Renate Müller, German actress and singer (born 1906)
* 9 October - Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (born 1868)
* 10 October – Walter Gronostay, German composer (born 1906)
* 27 November — Wilhelm Weinberg, German physician and geneticist (born 1862)
* 12 December - Alfred Abel, German actor (born 1879)
* 20 December - Erich Ludendorff, German general (born 1865)