1934 in Germany

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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

• October 7 — Ulrike Meinhof

Deaths

• 1 January — Jakob Wassermann, Jewish-German novelist (born 1873)
• 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
• 1 July - Edgar Julius Jung
• 2 July - Ernst Röhm
• 2 August — Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician (born 1847)

References