1934 in Germany

Incumbents

National level

• Paul von Hindenburg to 2 August, then Adolf Hitler

• Adolf Hitler

  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

• January 1 - Hans Huber, German boxer
• January 4 - Hellmuth Karasek, German journalist, literary critic, novelist and author
• March 20 - Peter Berling, German actor
• March 27 - Jutta Limbach, German politician and jurist
• March 27 - Peter Schamoni, German film director
• April 1 Elmar Faber, German book publisher
• April 5 - Roman Herzog, German politician
• April 27 - Jürgen Kühling, German judge
• May 27 - Uwe Friedrichsen, German actor
• June 7 - Princess Felicitas of Prussia
• June 21 - Josef Stoer, German mathematician
• July 3 - Klaus von Beyme, German political scientist
• July 3 - Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German general
• July 10 - Alfred Biolek, German television presenter
• July 17 - Rainer Kirsch, German journalist and writer
• July 20 - Uwe Johnson, German writer
• July 29 — Albert Speer, Jr., German architect
• August 29 - Horst Szymaniak, German football player
• September 5 - Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal
• September 16 - Hans A. Engelhard, German jurist and politician
• September 24 -Manfred Wörner, German politician
• October 7 — Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist
• November 15 - Martin Bangemann, German politician
• November 24 - Wolfgang Rademann, German television producer and journalist
• November 30 - Albert, Margrave of Meissen, German nobleman

  Deaths

• 1 January — Jakob Wassermann, Jewish-German novelist
• 21 January - Paul Troost, German architect
• 29 January - Fritz Haber, German chemist
• 7 April - Karl von Einem, Prussian Minister of War
• 30 June :
• * Gregor Strasser, German Imperial soldier and early Nazi
• * Kurt von Schleicher, German Imperial general, politician and former Chancellor of Germany
• * Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German politician
• * Erich Klausener, German Catholic politician
• * Herbert von Bose, German politician
• * Edmund Heines, Nazi paramilitary
• * Ferdinand von Bredow, German Generalmajor, former head of the Abwehr
• * Fritz Gerlich, German journalist and historian
• * Peter von Heydebreck, German Imperial Army officer and Nazi paramilitary
• * Karl Ernst, Nazi paramilitary
• July - Karl-Günther Heimsoth, German physician and polygraph
• 1 July - Edgar Julius Jung
• 2 July - Ernst Röhm, German Imperial Army officer and Nazi paramilitary
• 10 July - Erich Mühsam, German poet and playwright
• 2 August — Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician
• 20 October — Hans Böhning, World War I German flying ace
• 12 November - Walther Bensemann, German pioneer of football and founder of the country's major sports publication, Kicker.
• 16 November - Carl von Linde, German engineer and scientist
• 17 November - Joachim Ringelnatz, German writer