1936 in Germany

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← 1935 1934 1933 1936 in Germany → 1937 1938 1939
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1936 History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1936 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Head of State and Chancellor

• Adolf Hitler (the Führer) (Nazi Party)

Events

• 6 February — The IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.^[1]
• reoccupies the Rhineland.^[2]
• German election and referendum, 1936
• 26 June — Focke-Wulf Fw 61
  , the first practical, functional helicopter, first flown.
• 1 August — 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 — Ernest Nash flees Germany for Rome
  .
• remilitarization
  of the Rhineland in March.
• 26 November — The Anti-Comintern Pact
  is signed by Germany and Japan.

• 
  6 February: The IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
• 
  The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, August 1936

Births

• 10 January — Walter Bodmer, German-English geneticist and academic^[5]
• 14 January — Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (died 1999
  )
• 27 January — Wolfgang Böhmer
  , German politician
• 9 February — Georg Sterzinsky, German cardinal (died 2011
  )
• 4 March — Aribert Reimann, German composer (died 2023
  )
• 9 March — Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, head of house of Waldeck and Pyrmont^[6]
• 11 March — Harald zur Hausen, German virologist (died 2023
  )
• 13 March — Lothar Ahrendt
  , German politician
• 16 March — Elisabeth Volkmann, German actress (died 2006
  )
• 30 March — Erwin J. Haeberle, German physician (died 2021)^[7]
• 8 April — Klaus Löwitsch, German actor (died 2002
  )
• 13 April – Dieter Klöcker, German clarinetist (died 2011
  )
• 22 April — Dieter Kronzucker
  , German journalist
• 9 May — Ulrich Kienzle, German journalist (died 2020
  )
• 12 May — Klaus Doldinger
  , German saxophonist
• 16 May
  • Karl Lehmann, German Roman Catholic Cardinal prelate, Bishop of Mainz (died 2018)
  • Manfred Stolpe, German politician (died 2019)
• 21 May — Günter Blobel, German biologist (died 2018
  )
• 26 May — Franz Magnis-Suseno
  , German-born Indonesian Jesuit priest
• 29 May
  • Wyn Hoop, German singer
  • Klaus Winter, German judge (died 2000)
• 1 June — Peter Sodann
  , German actor
• 9 June — Jürgen Schmude
  , German politician
• 14 June — Wolfgang Behrendt
  , German boxer
• 21 June — Hans Köhler
  , German swimmer
• 22 July — Klaus Bresser
  , German journalist and television presenter
• 25 June — Bert Hölldobler
  , German sociobiologist and evolutionary biologist
• 28 June — Walter Köstner
  , German fencer
• 1 July — Lea Rosh
  , German television journalist, publicist, entrepreneur and political activist
• 2 July — Rex Gildo, German singer (died 1999
  )
• 7 July — Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician (died 2013
  )
• 22 July — Klaus Bresser
  , German journalist
• 1 August — Carl, Duke of Württemberg, German nobleman (died 2022
  )
• 5 August — Hans Hugo Klein
  , German judge
• 20 August — Kessler Twins
  , German singers
• 29 September — Hans D. Ochs
  , German immunologist
• 1 October — Lea Rosh
  , German television journalist
• 10 October — Gerhard Ertl
  , German physicist
• 12 October — Inge Brück
  , German singer
• 13 October — Hans Joachim Meyer, German linguist and politician (died 2024
  )
• 5 November — Uwe Seeler, German footballer (died 2022
  )
• 15 November — Wolf Biermann
  , German singer and songwriter
• 8 December — Helmut Markwort
  , German journalist and magazine founder
• 17 December — Klaus Kinkel, German politician (died 2019)^[8]

Deaths

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