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.
• 7 March — In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
• 29 March — 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. 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.
• 30 August — Ernest Nash flees Germany for Rome.
• 8–14 September — 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 — The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Germany and Japan.

File:Bundesarchiv R 8076 Bild-0005, Olympische Winterspiele.- Eröffnung.jpg|6 February: The IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P017073, Berlin, Olympische Spiele im Olympiastadion.jpg|The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, August 1936

Births

• 10 January — Walter Bodmer, German-English geneticist and academic
• 14 January — Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (died 1999)
• 23 January — Horst Mahler, German lawyer and political activist (died 2025)
• 27 January — Wolfgang Böhmer, German politician
• 9 February — Georg Sterzinsky, German cardinal (died 2011)
• 4 March — Aribert Reimann, German composer (died 2024)
• 9 March — Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, head of house of Waldeck and Pyrmont
• 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)
• 6 April — Manfred Schoof, German jazz trumpeter
• 8 April — Klaus Löwitsch, German actor (died 2002)
• 13 April – Dieter Klöcker, German clarinetist (died 2011)
• 19 April – Bernhard Klee, German conductor and pianist (died 2025)
• 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 (died 2024)
• 9 June — Jürgen Schmude, German politician
• 10 June — Thomas Hoepker, German photographer (died 2024 in Chile)
• 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
• 12 August — Hans Haacke, German-born American conceptual artist
• 20 August — Kessler Twins, German singers (died 2025)
• 29 September — Hans D. Ochs, German immunologist
• 1 October — Lea Rosh, German television journalist
• 5 October — Annerose Schmidt, German pianist (died 2022)
• 10 October — Gerhard Ertl, German physicist
• 12 October — Inge Brück, German singer (died 2025)
• 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
• 2 December — Peter Duesberg, German molecular biologist
• 3 December — Lothar Gall, German historian (died 2024)
• 8 December — Helmut Markwort, German journalist and magazine founder
• 17 December — Klaus Kinkel, German politician (died 2019)

Deaths

• 16 January - Oskar Barnack, German inventor and German photographer (born 1879)
• 6 February - Wilhelm Solf, German diplomat (born 1862)
• 20 February — Max Schreck, German actor (born 1879)
• 9 April - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (born 1855)
• 18 April - Richard Lipinski, German politician (born 1867)
• 1 May – Ernst Reicher, German actor (born 1885)
• 4 May - Ludwig von Falkenhausen, German general (born 1844)
• 8 May - Oswald Spengler, German historian (born 1880)
• 22 May - Joseph Koeth, German politician (born 1870)
• 3 June – Walther Wever, German general, pre-World War II Luftwaffe commander (born 1887)
• 22 June –Moritz 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 — Erich Büttner, German painter (born 1889)
• 9 October — 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)

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