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Events in the year 1932 in Germany.

## Incumbents

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### National level

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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

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* 25 February – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.[1]
* 10 April – Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected president of Germany.[2]
* 30 May – Chancellor Heinrich Brüning resigns. President Hindenburg asks Franz von Papen to form a new government.[3]
* 16 June – Bans against the SS and SA are lifted.[4]
* 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.[5]
* 31 July – Federal election: The Nazi Party gains a plurality and the Communists also gain seats.[6] 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.[7]
* 6 November – Federal election: The Nazis lose many seats,[8] 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.[9]
* 25 December – A patent is filed for Prontosil, an antibacterial drug discovered in Wuppertal.[10]

## Births

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* 6 January \- Max Streibl, German politician (died 1998)[11]
* 7 January \- Wolfgang Reichmann, German actor (died 1991)[12]
* 18 January \- Peter Stuhlmacher, German Protestant theologian (died 2025)
* 2 February \- Franz Kamphaus, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (died 2024)[13]
* 4 February \- Gerhard Hund, German mathematician and computer scientist (died 2024)
* 7 February \- Anton Schlembach, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (died 2020)
* 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)[14]
* 25 March \- Wolfgang Helfrich, German physicist and inventor
* 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)[15]
* 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
* 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-Swiss photographer and art collector (died 2011)
* 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

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* 13 January – Sophia of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1870)[16]
* 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

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2. ^ Winkler, Heinrich August (1 January 2015). The Age of Catastrophe: A History of the West, 1914-1945. Yale University Press. p. 428\. ISBN 978-0-300-20489-6. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
3. ^ Patch, William (2006). Heinrich Brüning and the dissolution of the Weimar Republic. Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 258\. ISBN 9780521025416.
4. ^ Eyck, Erich (1956). 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.] (in German). Erlenbach-Zürich / Stuttgart: Eugen Rentsch Verlag. p. 502.
5. ^ Hamburg im Dritten Reich [Hamburg in the Third Reich] (in German). Göttingen: Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg [Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg]. 2005. p. 53.
6. ^ Kerwin, Jerome G. (October 1932). "The German Reichstag Elections of July 31, 1932". American Political Science Review. 26 (5): 921–926\. doi:10.2307/1947146. ISSN 1537-5943. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
7. ^ Manvell, Roger; Fraenkel, Heinrich (1968). Herman Goring: By Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel. New English Library. p. 77\. ISBN 978-0-450-00188-8. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
8. ^ Korioth, Stefan (10 March 2023). Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte (in German). Mohr Siebeck. p. 293\. ISBN 978-3-16-162069-0. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
9. ^ Evans, Richard J. (13 August 2024). Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich. Penguin. p. 39\. ISBN 978-0-593-29643-1. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
10. ^ Lesch JE (2007). "Chapter 3: Prontosil". The first miracle drugs: how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine. Oxford University Press. p. 51\. ISBN 978-0-19-518775-5.
11. ^ Becker, Rainald; Botzenhart, Christof (30 March 2024). Die Bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten: 1918-2018 (in German). Verlag Friedrich Pustet. p. 311\. ISBN 978-3-7917-7500-5. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
12. ^ Naegele, Verena; Merz, Richard; Ehrismann, Sibylle (2010). Wolfgang Reichmann: Porträt eines grossen Schauspielers (in German). Huber. p. 9\. ISBN 978-3-7193-1562-7. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
13. ^ Schatz, Klaus (1983). Geschichte des Bistums Limburg (in German). Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte. p. 356. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
14. ^ Who's who in European Institutions and Organizations. Who's Who The International Red Series Verlag. 1982. p. 22.
15. ^ "Obituaries; HRH Princess Margarita of Baden". Daily Telegraph.
16. ^ Gelardi, Julia P. (2005). Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 357–8\. ISBN 0312324243.

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