411 REFERENCE · Wikipedia
1932 in Germany
Reference material by Wikipedia contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
none
January 2021
1932
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. Overy R. J. The Penguin historical atlas of the Third Reich Penguin Books Ltd. Penguin Books USA Inc London New York 1996 9780140513301 117
10 April – Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected president of Germany.Winkler Heinrich August The Age of Catastrophe: A History of the West, 1914-1945 1 January 2015 Yale University Press 978-0-300-20489-6 428 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Age_of_Catastrophe/rPCACgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Paul+von+Hindenburg+%E2%80%9E10.+April+1932%E2%80%9C&pg=PA428&printsec=frontcover 11 December 2024 en
30 May – Chancellor Heinrich Brüning resigns. President Hindenburg asks Franz von Papen to form a new government. Patch William Heinrich Brüning and the dissolution of the Weimar Republic Cambridge University Press Cambridge, UK New York 2006 9780521025416 258
16 June – Bans against the SS and SA are lifted.Eyck Erich Geschichte der Weimarer Republik. Zweiter Band: Von der Konferenz von Locarno bis zu Hitlers Machtübernahme. 2. Aufl. [History of the Weimar Republic. Second volume: From the Locarno Conference to Hitler's seizure of power. 2nd ed.] Eugen Rentsch Verlag 1956 Erlenbach-Zürich / Stuttgart 502 German
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.Hamburg im Dritten Reich [Hamburg in the Third Reich] Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg [Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg] 2005 Göttingen 53 German
31 July – Federal election: The Nazi Party gains a plurality and the Communists also gain seats.Kerwin Jerome G. The German Reichstag Elections of July 31, 1932 American Political Science Review October 1932 26 5 921–926 10.2307/1947146 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/german-reichstag-elections-of-july-31-19321/CDA50F2FB04A984C3EFB837623F8EEBB 11 December 2024 en 1537-5943 subscription 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.Manvell Roger Fraenkel Heinrich Herman Goring: By Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel 1968 New English Library 978-0-450-00188-8 77 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Herman_Goring/LC9LAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Hermann+G%C3%B6ring+%E2%80%9E30.+August+1932%E2%80%9C&dq=Hermann+G%C3%B6ring+%E2%80%9E30.+August+1932%E2%80%9C&printsec=frontcover 11 December 2024 en
6 November – Federal election: The Nazis lose many seats,Korioth Stefan Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte 10 March 2023 Mohr Siebeck 978-3-16-162069-0 293 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Deutsche_Verfassungsgeschichte/xW2zEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%226.+November+1932%22+Nazi+verlieren&pg=PA293&printsec=frontcover 11 December 2024 de 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.Evans Richard J. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich 13 August 2024 Penguin 978-0-593-29643-1 39 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hitler_s_People/YOfiEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%223+december+1932%22+Kurt+von+Schleicher&pg=PA39&printsec=frontcover 11 December 2024 en
25 December – A patent is filed for Prontosil, an antibacterial drug discovered in Wuppertal. Lesch JE The first miracle drugs: how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine. Chapter 3: Prontosil 51 Oxford University Press 2007 978-0-19-518775-5
Births
6 January - Max Streibl, German politician (died 1998)Becker Rainald Botzenhart Christof Die Bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten: 1918-2018 30 March 2024 Verlag Friedrich Pustet 978-3-7917-7500-5 311 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Die_Bayerischen_Ministerpr%C3%A4sidenten/xYvqEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Max+Streibl+%226+januar+1932%22&pg=PA311&printsec=frontcover 11 December 2024 de
7 January - Wolfgang Reichmann, German actor (died 1991)Naegele Verena Merz Richard Ehrismann Sibylle Wolfgang Reichmann: Porträt eines grossen Schauspielers 2010 Huber 978-3-7193-1562-7 9 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Wolfgang_Reichmann/N6BEAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Wolfgang+Reichmann+%227+januar+1932%22&dq=Wolfgang+Reichmann+%227+januar+1932%22&printsec=frontcover 11 December 2024 de
18 January - Peter Stuhlmacher, German Protestant theologian (died 2025)
2 February - Franz Kamphaus, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (died 2024)Schatz Klaus Geschichte des Bistums Limburg 1983 Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte 356 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Geschichte_des_Bistums_Limburg/XksvAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Franz+Kamphaus+%222+februar+1932%22&dq=Franz+Kamphaus+%222+februar+1932%22&printsec=frontcover 11 December 2024 de
4 February - Gerhard Hund, German mathematician and computer scientist (died 2024)
7 February - Anton Schlembach, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (died 2020)
8 February - Horst Eckel, German footballer (died 2021)
9 February - Gerhard Richter, German visual artist
14 February - Alexander Kluge, German film director (died 2026)
18 February - Andreas Meyer-Hanno, German theater and opera director (died 2006)
25 February - Hans Apel, German politician (died 2011)Who's who in European Institutions and Organizations Who's Who The International Red Series Verlag 1982 22
26 March - Wolfgang Helfrich, German physicist and inventor (died 2025)
2 April - Siegfried Rauch, German actor (died 2018)
6 April - Helmut Griem, German actor and director (died 2004)
9 April - Hans Dieter Beck, German publisher (died 2025)
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)Obituaries; HRH Princess Margarita of Baden https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/9814461/HRH-Princess-Margarita-of-Baden.html Daily Telegraph
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)
29 September - Rainer Weiss, German-born American physicist (died 2025)
30 September - Wilhelm Brückner, German violin maker (died 2025)
14 October – Wolf Vostell, German artist (died 1998)
16 October - Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, German politician (died 1991)
28 October - Gerhart Baum, German lawyer and politician (died 2025)
29 October - Charlotte Knobloch, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany
1 November - Edgar Reitz, German film director
10 November - Roland Bulirsch, German mathematician (died 2022)
14 November - Gunter Sachs, German-born Swiss photographer and art collector (died 2011)
15 November - Hans Roericht, German designer (died 2025)
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)
26 November – Christfried Schmidt, composer (died 2025)
28 November – Kurt Horres, German stage director (died 2023)
8 December – Claus Luthe, German car designer (died 2008)
19 December – Bernhard Vogel, German politician (died 2025)
31 December – Felix Rexhausen, German journalist (died 1992)
Deaths
13 January – Sophia of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1870)Julia P. Gelardi Julia P. Gelardi Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria https://archive.org/details/borntorulefivere00juli St. Martin's Press New York 2005 0312324243 357–8
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)
References
1932
Category:Years of the 20th century in Germany
Germany
Germany
Category:Long stubs with short prose