1937 in Germany
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Events in the year 1937 in Germany.
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Incumbents
National level
Head of State and Chancellor
- Adolf Hitler (the Führer) (Nazi Party)
Events
- 10 March â The Encyclical Mit brennender Sorge of Pope Pius XI is published in Nazi Germany.
- 6 May â Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirteen passengers, 22 crew and one member of the ground crew were killed.
- 7 May â Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion Fighter Group, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
- 28 May â Volkswagen, state-owned carmaker, is formed to produce the new people's car.[1]
- 8 June â Carl Orff's Carmina Burana premieres in Frankfurt, Germany.
- 15 July â Buchenwald Concentration Camp opened
- 18 July - Haus der Kunst in Munich opened
- 20 July â The Geibeltbad Pirna is opened in Dresden, Germany.
- 6â13 September â The 9th Nazi Party Congress is held and titled the "Rally of Labour" (Reichsparteitag der Arbeit) to highlight the reduction of unemployment in Germany since the Nazi rise to power.
- 25 Septemberâ30 September â Italian leader Benito Mussolini makes a state visit to Germany, meeting Hitler in Munich and Berlin, touring several cities, and attending a military parade in the capital; the visit was widely staged as a symbol of the strengthening RomeâBerlin Axis.[2]
- 13 October â Germany, in a note to Brussels, guarantees the inviolability and integrity of Belgium so long as the latter abstains from military action against Germany
- 5 November â In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people (recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum)
- 16 November â Sabena OO-AUB Ostend crash
- Date unknown â Otto Bayer and his coworkers at IG Farben in Leverkusen first made polyurethanes.
- Date unknown â The opioid Methadone is synthesized in Germany by scientists Max Bockmühl and Gustav Ehrhart.
- Date unknown â Konrad Zuse submits patents in Germany based on his Z1 computer design anticipating von Neumann architecture.
Births
- 2 January â Martin Lauer, German sprinter (died 2019)
- 15 January â Walter Stöhrer, German painter (died 2000)
- 31 January â Hans Dresig, Professor for Applied mechanics and Theory of Mechanisms and Machines (died 2018)
- 2 February â Lea Ackermann, German nun and activist (died 2023)
- 7 February â Doris Gercke, German writer (died 2025)
- 8 February â Manfred Krug, German actor (died 2016)
- 9 February â Hildegard Behrens, German operatic soprano (died 2009 in Japan)
- 13 February â Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut and pilot (died 2019)
- 17 February â Rita Süssmuth, German politician (CDU) (died 2026)
- 20 February â Robert Huber, German biochemist and Nobel laureate
- 22 February â Rolf Schafstall, German footballer (died 2018)
- 27 February â Peter Hamm, German poet, author, journalist, editor and literary critic (died 2019)
- 18 March â Rudi Altig, German cyclist (died 2016)
- 19 March â Egon Krenz, German politician
- 20 March â Helmut Recknagel, German ski jumper
- 22 March
- Armin Hary, German sprinter
- Peter Vogel, German film actor (died 1978 in Austria)
- 2 April â Alexandra Kluge, German actress (died 2017)
- 3 April â Annekathrin Bürger, German actress
- 12 April â Barbara Aland, German theologian (died 2024)
- 24 April â Otmar Gutmann, German TV producer, animator and director (died 1993)
- 25 April â Wolfgang Zapf, German sociologe (died 2018)
- 2 May â Gisela Elsner, German writer (died 1992)
- 3 May â Hans Cieslarczyk, German football player (died 2020)
- 23 May â Rupert Scholz, German politician
- 29 May â Alwin Schockemöhle, German equestrian
- 7 June â Claus Peymann, German theatre director and manager (died 2025)
- 9 June â Harald Rosenthal, German scientist
- 14 June â Hans-Ulrich Klose, German politician (died 2023)
- 15 June â Rolf Riehm, German composer (died 2026)
- 24 June â Hans Tiedge, German spy (died 2011)
- 25 June â Karin GraÃhof, German judge (died 2025)
- 1 July â Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, German jurist (died 2021)
- 4 July â Wolf von Lojewski, German television journalist
- 5 July â Anke Fuchs, German politician (died 2019)
- 7 July â Konrad Wirnhier, German sport shooter (died 2002)
- 12 July - Helga Mees, German fencer (died 2014)
- 16 August â Gerhard Pohl, German politician (died 2012)
- 20 August â Georg Thoma, German skier
- 1 September - Peter Gaehtgens, German physiologist
- 7 September - Birgit Breuel, German politician
- 27 September - Franz Grundheber, German operatic baritone (died 2025)
- 1 October â Everhardt FranÃen, German judge
- 13 October â Rudolf Seiters, German politician
- 27 October â Peter Lustig, German television presenter and author of children's books (died 2016)
- 26 July â Peter Fleischmann, German film director (died 2021)
- 29 October â Michael Ponti, German pianist (died 2022)
- 1 November
- Jürgen Echternach, German politician (died 2006)
- Witta Pohl, German actress (died 2011)
- 3 November â Rolf-Ernst Breuer, German businessman (died 2024)
- 11 November â Marlene Schmidt, German actress and beauty queen
- 16 November â Lothar Späth, German politician (died 2016)
- 20 November - René Kollo, German tenor
- 23 November - Karl Mildenberger, German boxer (died 2018)
- 26 November - Bruno Steinhoff, German businessman
- 29 November - Jo Brauner, German journalist
- 20 December - Manfred Lahnstein, German politician
- 29 December â Dieter Thomas Heck, German actor (died 2018)
- 31 December - Paul Spiegel, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (died 2006)
Deaths
- 4 January â Paul Behncke, German admiral (born 1869)[3]
- 11 February â Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick, German ophthalmologist (born 1852)
- 12 March â Julius Geppert, German pharmacologist (born 1856)
- 18 March â Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general (born 1852)
- 18 April â Max von Gallwitz, German general (born 1852)[4]
- 4 May â Selma Lohse, German politician (born 1883)
- 7 May â Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain of the Hindenburg (b. 1886)[5]
- 14 July â Walter Simons, German diplomat (born 1861)
- 30 July - Hans von Rosenberg, German diplomat and politician (born 1874)
- 29 September â Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer (born 1878)
- 7 October - Renate Müller, German actress and singer (born 1906)
- 9 October - Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (born 1868)
- 10 October â Walter Gronostay, German composer (born 1906)
- 27 November â Wilhelm Weinberg, German physician and geneticist (born 1862)
- 12 December - Alfred Abel, German actor (born 1879)
- 20 December - Erich Ludendorff, German general (born 1865)
