1932 in Germany

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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

• 15 January – About 6 million are unemployed in Germany.
• 25 February – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
• 10 April – Paul von Hindenburg is elected president of Germany.
• 30 May – Chancellor Heinrich Brüning resigns. President Hindenburg asks Franz von Papen to form a new government.
• 14 June – Bans against the SS and SA are overturned.
• 17 July – Altona Bloody Sunday: In Altona, armed communists attack a National Socialist demonstration; 18 are killed. Many other political street fights follow.
• 31 July – Federal election: The Nazi Party gains a plurality and the Communists also gain seats. This creates a "negative majority" that prevents any majority coalition that does not include one of the two parties.
• 30 August – Hermann Göring is elected as chairman of the German Senate.
• 6 November – Federal election: The Nazis lose many seats, 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.
• Date unknown - Prontosil, an antibacterial drug, was discovered in Wuppertal.

Births

• 6 January - Max Streibl, German politician (died 1998)
• 7 January - Wolfgang Reichmann, German actor (died 1991)
• 31 January - Michael Degen, German actor
• 7 February - Anton Schlembach, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
• 9 February - Gerhard Richter, German visual artist
• 14 February - Alexander Kluge, German film director
• 18 February - Andreas Meyer-Hanno, German theater and opera director (died 2006)
• 25 February - Hans Apel, German politician (died 2011)
• 25 March - Wolfgang Helfrich, German physicist and inventor
• 2 April Siegfried Rauch, German actor (died 2018)
• 8 May - Arnulf Baring, German author, historian, political scientist and journalist
• 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)
• 3 July - Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, German politician (died 2015)
• 10 July - Jürgen Becker, German poet
• 14 July - Princess Margarita of Baden, German noblewoman (died 2013)
• 30 July - Michael Bruno, German-born former governor of Israel's central bank and a Chief Economist of the World Bank (died 1996)
• 19 September - Stefanie Zweig, German writer (died 2014)
• 24 September - Walter Wallmann, German politician (died 2013)
• 16 October - Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, German politician (died 1991)
• 28 October - Gerhart Baum, German politician
• 29 October - Charlotte Knobloch, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany
• 1 November - Edgar Reitz, German film director
• 14 November - Gunter Sachs, German-Swiss photographer and art collector (died 2011)
• 21 November - Heinrich Lummer, German politician (CDU) (died 2019)
• 19 December - Bernhard Vogel, German politician
• 31 December - Felix Rexhausen, German journalist (died 1992)

Deaths

• 13 January - Sophia of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1870)
• 24 January - Eugen Boermel, German sculptor, writer and inventor (born 1858)
• 6 February - Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German American landscape painter (born 1832)
• 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 1850)