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)
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
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- 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)