1937 in Germany

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Events in the year 1937 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Head of State and Chancellor

• Adolf Hitler (the Führer) (Nazi Party)

Events

• 10 March — The Encyclical Mit brennender Sorge of Pope Pius XI
  is published in Nazi Germany.
• 6 May — 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 — 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 — Volkswagen, state-owned carmaker, is formed to produce the new people's car.^[1]
• Frankfurt, Germany
  .
• 18 July - Haus der Kunst
  in Munich opened
• Dresden, Germany
  .
• 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.
• 13 October — 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 — 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
  )
• Sabena OO-AUB Ostend crash
• Date unknown —
  polyurethanes
  .
• Date unknown — The opioid Methadone is synthesized in Germany by scientists Max Bockmühl and Gustav Ehrhart.
• Date unknown — Konrad Zuse submits patents in Germany based on his Z1 computer design anticipating von Neumann architecture.

Births

• 2 January — Martin Lauer, German sprinter (died 2019
  )
• 15 January — Walter Stöhrer, German painter (died 2000
  )
• 31 January — Hans Dresig, Professor for Applied mechanics and Theory of Mechanisms and Machines (died 2018
  )
• 2 February — Lea Ackermann, German nun and activist (died 2023
  )
• 8 February — Manfred Krug, German actor (died 2016
  )
• 13 February — Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut and pilot (died 2019
  )
• 17 February — Rita Süssmuth
  , German politician (CDU)
• 20 February — Robert Huber
  , German biochemist and Nobel laureate
• 22 February — Rolf Schafstall, German footballer (died 2018
  )
• 18 March — Rudi Altig, German cyclist (died 2016
  )
• 19 March — Egon Krenz
  , German politician
• 20 March — Helmut Recknagel
  , German ski jumper
• 22 March
  • Armin Hary, German sprinter
  • Peter Vogel, German film actor (died 1978 in Austria)
• 2 April — Alexandra Kluge, German actress (died 2017
  )
• 3 April — Annekathrin Bürger
  , German actress
• 25 April — Wolfgang Zapf, German sociologe (died 2018
  )
• 24 April — Otmar Gutmann, German TV producer, animator and director (died 1993
  )
• 2 May – Gisela Elsner, German writer (died 1992
  )
• 3 May – Hans Cieslarczyk, German football player (died 2020
  )
• 23 May — Rupert Scholz
  , German politician
• 29 May — Alwin Schockemöhle
  , German equestrian
• 14 June — Hans-Ulrich Klose
  , German politician
• 24 June — Hans Tiedge, German spy (died 2011
  )
• 25 June — Karin Grasshof
  , German judge
• 1 July – Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, German jurist (died 2021
  )
• 4 July – Wolf von Lojewski
  , German television journalist
• 5 July — Anke Fuchs, German politician (died 2019
  )
• 7 July — Konrad Wirnhier, German sport shooter (died 2002
  )
• 12 July - Helga Mees, German fencer (died 2014
  )
• 16 August — Gerhard Pohl, German politician (died 2012
  )
• 20 August — Georg Thoma
  , German skier
• 7 September - Birgit Breuel
  , German politician
• 1 October — Everhardt Franßen
  , German judge
• 13 October — Rudolf Seiters
  , German politician
• 27 October — Peter Lustig, German television presenter and author of children's books (died 2016
  )
• 26 July – Peter Fleischmann, German film director (died 2021
  )
• 29 October — Michael Ponti, German pianist (died 2022
  )
• 1 November — Witta Pohl, German actress (died 2011
  )
• 11 November – Marlene Schmidt
  , German actress and beauty queen
• 16 November – 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 — Dieter Thomas Heck, German actor (died 2018
  )
• 31 December - Paul Spiegel, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (died 2006
  )

• 4 January – Paul Behncke, German admiral (born 1869)^[2]
• 11 February – Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick, German ophthalmologist (born 1852
  )
• 12 March — Julius Geppert, German pharmacologist (born 1856
  )
• 18 March — Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general (born 1852
  )
• 18 April – Max von Gallwitz, German general (born 1852)^[3]
• 4 May – Selma Lohse, German politician (born 1883
  )
• 7 May – Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain of the Hindenburg (b. 1886)^[4]
• 14 July – Walter Simons, German diplomat (born 1861
  )
• 30 July - Hans von Rosenberg, German diplomat and politician (born 1874
  )
• 29 September – 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 – Walter Gronostay, German composer (born 1906
  )
• 27 November — Wilhelm Weinberg, German physician and geneticist (born 1862
  )
• 12 December - Alfred Abel, German actor (born 1879
  )
• 20 December - Erich Ludendorff, German general (born 1865
  )

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