1936 in Germany
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Events in the year 1936 in Germany.
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Incumbents
National level
Head of State and Chancellor
- Adolf Hitler (the Führer) (Nazi Party)
Events
- 6 February â The IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.[1]
- 7 March â In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.[2]
- 29 March â German election and referendum, 1936
- 26 June â Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical, functional helicopter, first flown.
- 1 August â The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, at the end of the first ever Olympic torch relay.[3] It is also the first occasion in world history when a sporting event is given television coverage.
- The first German volunteers on the nationalist side of the Spanish civil war leave for Spain.[4]
- 30 August â Ernest Nash flees Germany for Rome.
- 8â14 September â The 8th Nazi Party Congress is held and called the "Rally of Honour" (Reichsparteitag der Ehre) in reference to the remilitarization of the Rhineland in March.
- 26 November â The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Germany and Japan.
The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, August 1936
Births
- 10 January â Walter Bodmer, German-English geneticist and academic[5]
- 14 January â Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (died 1999)
- 23 January â Horst Mahler, German lawyer and political activist (died 2025)
- 27 January â Wolfgang Böhmer, German politician (died 2025)
- 9 February â Georg Sterzinsky, German cardinal (died 2011)
- 4 March â Aribert Reimann, German composer (died 2024)
- 9 March â Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, head of house of Waldeck and Pyrmont[6] (died 2024)
- 11 March â Harald zur Hausen, German virologist (died 2023)
- 13 March â Lothar Ahrendt, German politician
- 16 March â Elisabeth Volkmann, German actress (died 2006)
- 30 March â Erwin J. Haeberle, German physician (died 2021)[7]
- 6 April â Manfred Schoof, German jazz trumpeter
- 8 April â Klaus Löwitsch, German actor (died 2002)
- 13 April â Dieter Klöcker, German clarinetist (died 2011)
- 19 April â Bernhard Klee, German conductor and pianist (died 2025)
- 22 April â Dieter Kronzucker, German journalist
- 9 May â Ulrich Kienzle, German journalist (died 2020)
- 12 May â Klaus Doldinger, German saxophonist (died 2025)
- 16 May
- Karl Lehmann, German Roman Catholic Cardinal prelate, Bishop of Mainz (died 2018)
- Manfred Stolpe, German politician (died 2019)
- 21 May â Günter Blobel, German biologist (died 2018)
- 26 May â Franz Magnis-Suseno, German-born Indonesian Jesuit priest
- 29 May
- Wyn Hoop, German singer
- Klaus Winter, German judge (died 2000)
- 1 June â Peter Sodann, German actor (died 2024)
- 9 June â Jürgen Schmude, German politician (died 2025)
- 10 June â Thomas Hoepker, German photographer (died 2024 in Chile)
- 14 June â Wolfgang Behrendt, German boxer
- 21 June â Hans Köhler, German swimmer
- 22 July â Klaus Bresser, German journalist and television presenter
- 25 June â Bert Hölldobler, German sociobiologist and evolutionary biologist
- 28 June â Walter Köstner, German fencer
- 1 July â Lea Rosh, German television journalist, publicist, entrepreneur and political activist
- 2 July â Rex Gildo, German singer (died 1999)
- 7 July â Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician (died 2013)
- 22 July â Klaus Bresser, German journalist
- 1 August â Carl, Duke of Württemberg, German nobleman (died 2022)
- 5 August â Hans Hugo Klein, German judge
- 12 August â Hans Haacke, German-born American conceptual artist
- 20 August â Kessler Twins, German singers (died 2025)
- 29 September â Hans D. Ochs, German immunologist
- 1 October â Lea Rosh, German television journalist
- 5 October â Annerose Schmidt, German pianist (died 2022)
- 10 October â Gerhard Ertl, German physicist
- 12 October â Inge Brück, German singer (died 2025)
- 13 October â Hans Joachim Meyer, German linguist and politician (died 2024)
- 5 November â Uwe Seeler, German footballer (died 2022)
- 15 November â Wolf Biermann, German singer and songwriter
- 2 December â Peter Duesberg, German molecular biologist (died 2026)
- 3 December â Lothar Gall, German historian (died 2024)[8]
- 8 December â Helmut Markwort, German journalist and magazine founder
- 17 December â Klaus Kinkel, German politician (died 2019)[9]
Deaths
- 16 January - Oskar Barnack, German inventor and German photographer (born 1879)
- 6 February - Wilhelm Solf, German diplomat (born 1862)
- 20 February â Max Schreck, German actor (born 1879)
- 9 April - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (born 1855)
- 18 April - Richard Lipinski, German politician (born 1867)
- 1 May â Ernst Reicher, German actor (born 1885)
- 4 May - Ludwig von Falkenhausen, German general (born 1844)
- 8 May - Oswald Spengler, German historian (born 1880)[10]
- 22 May - Joseph Koeth, German politician (born 1870)
- 3 June â Walther Wever, German general, pre-World War II Luftwaffe commander (born 1887)
- 22 June âMoritz Schlick, German philosopher and physicist (born 1882)
- 24 July - Georg Michaelis, German politician, former chancellor of Germany (born 1857)
- 20 August - Heinrich Cunow, German politician (born 1862)
- 1 September - Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf, German general (born 1860)
- 7 September â Erich Büttner, German painter (born 1889)
- 9 October â Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski, German writer (born 1873)
- 19 December - Theodor Wiegand, German archaeologist (born 1864)
- 27 December Hans von Seeckt, German chief of staff (born 1866)