1934 in Germany

Events in the year 1934 in Germany.

National level
Head of State
 * President:
 * Paul von Hindenburg (until 2 August 1934)
 * Adolf Hitler (from 2 August 1934; as Führer and Chancellor)


 * Chancellor:
 * Adolf Hitler (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.
 * 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 — President Paul von Hindenburg dies and Adolf Hitler declares himself Führer of Germany, becoming head of state as well as Chancellor.
 * 19 August — German voters retroactively endorse Hitler's assumption of the powers of head of state in a referendum, with 89.9% in favor; Hitler effectively becomes the absolute dictator of Germany.
 * 5–10 September — The 6th Nazi Party Congress is held in Nuremberg, attended by about 700,000 Nazi Party supporters and the Leni Riefenstahl film Triumph des Willens is made at this rally.

Births

 * 1 January - Hans Huber, German boxer
 * 4 January - Hellmuth Karasek, German journalist, literary critic, novelist and author (died 2015)
 * 29 January - Paul Gutama Soegijo, German musician and composer (died 2019)
 * 20 March - Peter Berling, German actor (died 2017)
 * 27 March
 * Jutta Limbach, German politician and jurist (died 2016)
 * Peter Schamoni, German film director (died 2011)
 * 1 April - Elmar Faber, German book publisher (died 2017)
 * 5 April - Roman Herzog, German politician, President of Germany (died 2017)
 * 13 April - Siegfried Matthus, German composer (died 2021)
 * 27 April - Jürgen Kühling, German judge (died 2019)
 * 6 May - Oskar Gottlieb Blarr, German composer
 * 27 May - Uwe Friedrichsen, German actor (died 2016)
 * 21 June - Josef Stoer, German mathematician
 * 3 July
 * Klaus von Beyme, German political scientist (died 2021)
 * Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German general
 * 10 July - Alfred Biolek, German television presenter (died 2021)
 * 17 July
 * Rainer Kirsch, German journalist and writer (died 2015)
 * Horst Steinmann, German economist
 * 20 July - Uwe Johnson, German writer (died 1984)
 * 29 July — Albert Speer, Jr., German architect (died 2017)
 * 1 August
 * Hermann Baumann, German horn player (died 2023)
 * Oskar Negt, German philosopher (died 2024)
 * 29 August
 * Gerhard Lohfink, German Cathloic priest and theologian (died 2024)
 * Horst Szymaniak, German football player (died 2009)
 * 5 September - Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal
 * 7 September - Mary Bauermeister, German artist (died 2023)
 * 16 September - Hans A. Engelhard, German jurist and politician (died 2008)
 * 24 September - Manfred Wörner, German politician (died 1994)
 * 7 October — Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (died 1976)
 * 19 October — Eva-Maria Hagen, German actress and singer (died 2022)
 * 15 November - Martin Bangemann, German politician (died 2022)
 * 21 November - Gerhard Erber, German pianist (died 2021)
 * 24 November - Wolfgang Rademann, German television producer and journalist (died 2016)
 * 29 November - Günter Wewel, German opera singer and television presenter (died 2023)
 * 30 November - Albert, Margrave of Meissen, German nobleman (died 2012)
 * 5 December - Eberhard Jüngel, German Lutheran theologian (died 2021)

Deaths

 * 1 January — Jakob Wassermann, Jewish-German novelist (born 1873)
 * 21 January - Paul Troost, German architect (born 1878)
 * 29 January - Fritz Haber, German chemist (born 1868)
 * 1 March - Wilhelm Diegelmann, German actor (born 1861)
 * 7 April - Karl von Einem, Prussian Minister of War (born 1853)
 * 10 June - Victor Villiger, Swiss-German chemist (born 1868)
 * 19 June – Prince Bernhard of Lippe (born 1872)
 * 30 June (assassinations associated with The Night of the Long Knives):
 * Gregor Strasser, German Imperial soldier and early Nazi (born 1892)
 * Kurt von Schleicher, German Imperial general, politician and former Chancellor of Germany (born 1882)
 * Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German politician (born 1862)
 * Erich Klausener, German Catholic politician (born 1885)
 * Herbert von Bose, German politician (born 1893)
 * Edmund Heines, Nazi paramilitary (born 1897)
 * Ferdinand von Bredow, German Generalmajor, former head of the Abwehr (born 1884)
 * Fritz Gerlich, German journalist and historian (born 1883)
 * Peter von Heydebreck, German Imperial Army officer and Nazi paramilitary (born 1889)
 * Karl Ernst, Nazi paramilitary (born 1904)
 * July - Karl-Günther Heimsoth, German physician and polygraph (born 1899)
 * 1 July
 * Edgar Julius Jung, German lawyer and political activist (born 1894)
 * Ernst Röhm, German Imperial Army officer and Nazi paramilitary (born 1887)
 * 10 July - Erich Mühsam, German poet and playwright (born 1878)
 * 13 July - Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (born 1877)
 * 2 August — Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician (born 1847)
 * 15 October - Samuel von Fischer, German publisher (born 1859)
 * 19 October – Alexander von Kluck, German general (born 1846)
 * 20 October — Hans Böhning, World War I German flying ace (born 1893)
 * 12 November - Walther Bensemann, German pioneer of football and founder of the country's major sports publication, Kicker (born 1873)
 * 16 November - Carl von Linde, German engineer and scientist (born 1842)
 * 17 November - Joachim Ringelnatz, German writer (born 1883)
 * 5 December – Oskar von Hutier, German general (born 1857)