# 1934 in Germany

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Events in the year 1934 in Germany.

## Incumbents
### National level

Head of State
* President:
** Paul von Hindenburg (until 2 August 1934)
** Adolf Hitler (from 2 August 1934; as Führer and Chancellor)
* Chancellor:
** Adolf Hitler (Nazi Party)

## 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 (died 2015)
* 29 January - Paul Gutama Soegijo, German musician and composer (died 2019)
* 8 March - Kurt Mahr, German author (died 1993)
* 20 March - Peter Berling, German actor (died 2017)
* 27 March
** Jutta Limbach, German politician and jurist (died 2016)
** Peter Schamoni, German film director (died 2011)
* 28 March - Siegfried Thiele, German composer (died 2024)
* 1 April - Elmar Faber, German book publisher (died 2017)
* 5 April - Roman Herzog, German politician, President of Germany (died 2017)
* 13 April - Siegfried Matthus, German composer (died 2021)
* 27 April - Jürgen Kühling, German judge (died 2019)
* 6 May - Oskar Gottlieb Blarr, German composer
* 27 May - Uwe Friedrichsen, German actor (died 2016)
* 21 June - Josef Stoer, German mathematician
* 3 July
** Klaus von Beyme, German political scientist (died 2021)
** Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German general
* 10 July - Alfred Biolek, German television presenter (died 2021)
* 17 July
** Rainer Kirsch, German journalist and writer (died 2015)
** Horst Steinmann, German economist
* 20 July - Uwe Johnson, German writer (died 1984)
* 29 July — Albert Speer, Jr., German architect (died 2017)
* 1 August
** Hermann Baumann, German horn player (died 2023)
** Oskar Negt, German philosopher (died 2024)
* 29 August
** Gerhard Lohfink, German Catholic priest and theologian (died 2024)
** Horst Szymaniak, German football player (died 2009)
* 5 September - Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal
* 7 September - Mary Bauermeister, German artist (died 2023)
* 16 September - Hans A. Engelhard, German jurist and politician (died 2008)
* 24 September - Manfred Wörner, German politician (died 1994)
* 7 October — Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (died 1976)
* 19 October — Eva-Maria Hagen, German actress and singer (died 2022)
* 15 November - Martin Bangemann, German politician (died 2022)
* 21 November - Gerhard Erber, German pianist (died 2021)
* 24 November - Wolfgang Rademann, German television producer and journalist (died 2016)
* 29 November - Günter Wewel, German opera singer and television presenter (died 2023)
* 30 November - Albert, Margrave of Meissen, German nobleman (died 2012)
* 1 December - Wilhelm Keim, German chemist (died 2018)
* 5 December - Eberhard Jüngel, German Lutheran theologian (died 2021)
* 15 December - Hans-Peter Lehmann, German opera director (died 2025)

## Deaths

* 1 January — Jakob Wassermann, Jewish-German novelist (born 1873)
* 21 January - Paul Troost, German architect (born 1878)
* 29 January - Fritz Haber, German chemist (born 1868)
* 1 March - Wilhelm Diegelmann, German actor (born 1861)
* 7 April - Karl von Einem, Prussian Minister of War (born 1853)
* 10 June - Victor Villiger, Swiss-German chemist (born 1868)
* 19 June – Prince Bernhard of Lippe (born 1872)
* 30 June (assassinations associated with The Night of the Long Knives):
** Gregor Strasser, German Imperial soldier and early Nazi (born 1892)
** Kurt von Schleicher, German Imperial general, politician and former Chancellor of Germany (born 1882)
** Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German politician (born 1862)
** Erich Klausener, German Catholic politician (born 1885)
** Herbert von Bose, German politician (born 1893)
** Edmund Heines, Nazi paramilitary (born 1897)
** Ferdinand von Bredow, German Generalmajor, former head of the Abwehr (born 1884)
** Fritz Gerlich, German journalist and historian (born 1883)
** Peter von Heydebreck, German Imperial Army officer and Nazi paramilitary (born 1889)
** Karl Ernst, Nazi paramilitary (born 1904)
* July - Karl-Günther Heimsoth, German physician and polygraph (born 1899)
* 1 July
** Edgar Julius Jung, German lawyer and political activist (born 1894)
** Ernst Röhm, German Imperial Army officer and Nazi paramilitary (born 1887)
* 10 July - Erich Mühsam, German poet and playwright (born 1878)
* 13 July - Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (born 1877)
* 2 August — Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician (born 1847)
* 15 October - Samuel von Fischer, German publisher (born 1859)
* 19 October – Alexander von Kluck, German general (born 1846)
* 20 October — Hans Böhning, World War I German flying ace (born 1893)
* 12 November - Walther Bensemann, German pioneer of football and founder of the country's major sports publication, Kicker (born 1873)
* 16 November - Carl von Linde, German engineer and scientist (born 1842)
* 17 November - Joachim Ringelnatz, German writer (born 1883)
* 5 December – Oskar von Hutier, German general (born 1857)