1934 in Germany

← 1933 1932 1931 1934 in Germany → 1935 1936 1937
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1934 List of years in Germany

Events in the year 1934 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Head of State

• Paul von Hindenburg (President) (Non-partisan) to 2 August, then Adolf Hitler (the Führer) (Nazi Party)

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.
• 30 June — 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 — Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany, becoming head of state as well as Chancellor.

Births

• January 4 - Hellmuth Karasek, German journalist, literary critic, novelist and author (died 2015)
• April 5 - Roman Herzog, German politician
• July 10 - Alfred Biolek, German teleivison presenter
• July 29 — Albert Speer, Jr., German architect
• October 7 — Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (died 1976)
• November 24 - Wolfgang Rademann, German television producer and journalist (died 2016)

Deaths

• 1 January — Jakob Wassermann, Jewish-German novelist (born 1873)
• 29 January - Fritz Haber, German chemist (born 1868)
• 30 June - Gregor Strasser, Kurt von Schleicher, Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Erich Klausener, Herbert von Bose, Edmund Heines, Ferdinand von Bredow, Fritz Gerlich, Peter von Heydebreck and Karl Ernst (assassinated)
• July - Karl-Günther Heimsoth, German physician and polygraph (assassinated) (born 1899)
• 1 July - Edgar Julius Jung
• 2 July - Ernst Röhm (assassinated)
• 2 August — Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician (born 1847)
• 16 November - Carl von Linde, German engineer and scientist (born 1842)

References