1935 in Germany

Incumbents

National level

• Adolf Hitler

  Events

• 13 January — A plebiscite in the Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany.
• 15 February — The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibacterial drug, is published in a series of articles in Germany's pre-eminent medical journal, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, by Gerhard Domagk.
• 1 March — Following the referendum on 13 January, Germany retakes the Saar region from League of Nations control.
• 11 March - The German Air force, the Luftwaffe, is officially created in a proclamation by Hermann Göring
• 16 March — Adolf Hitler announces German rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
• 22 March — The first Television program is broadcast from the Funkturm in Berlin by Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow
• 28 April — Hitler orders 12 submarines in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles.
• 21 May — The "Defense Law" is issued and bans Jews from the armed forces by stipulating that only “Aryans” could serve; it also formalizes the introduction of the general compulsory military service for “Aryans” from 1 October 1935.
• 18 June — Anglo-German Naval Agreement: the United Kingdom agrees to a German navy equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.
• 10–16 September — The 7th Nazi Party Congress is held in Nuremberg, and is called the "Rally of Freedom" in reference to the reintroduction of compulsory military service and German "liberation" from the Treaty of Versailles.
• 15 September — The Nuremberg Laws go into effect in Germany. Following an incident of vandalism on the SS Bremen in New York City, the Nazi Party flag emblazoned with the swastika is made the German National Flag on Hitler's orders.
• 10 October — A tornado destroys the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg, Germany. As a result, wooden radio towers are phased out.
• 12 December — Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.

  Births

• January 4 - Walter Mahlendorf, German sprinter
• January 16 - Udo Lattek, German football player, coach, and TV pundit
• February 10 - Ezard Haußmann, German actor
• February 11 - Fritz W. Scharpf, German political scientist
• February 27 - Theodor Hoffmann, German admiral and politician
• March 10 - Manfred Germar, German athlete
• March 13 - Hilmar Kopper, German banker
• March 17 - Hans Wollschläger, German writer
• March 23 - Hans Lenk, German rower
• March 31 - Rolf Becker, German actor
• April 16 - Sarah Kirsch, German poet
• May 17 – Ryke Geerd Hamer, German cancer researcher
• June 2 - Wilhelm Wieben, German journalist
• July 11 - Günther von Lojewski, German journalist
• July 29 - Peter Schreier, German tenor
• August 5 - Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer
• September 5 - Dieter Hallervorden, German comedian
• September 8 - Helga M. Novak, German writer
• October 2 - Gisela Stein, German actress
• 27 November — Helmut Lachenmann, German composer
• 30 November - Paul Gratzik, German poet and novelist
• 8 December - Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, German film director
• 11 December — Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German car designer
• 30 December — Wolfgang Dauner, German Jazz fusion pianist, composer and keyboardist

  Deaths

• January 11 - Gottlieb von Jagow, German diplomat
• February 3 - Hugo Junkers, German engineer and aircraft designer
• February 8 - Max Liebermann, German painter
• April 14 - Emmy Noether, German mathematician
• April 19 - Albert Tafel, German geographer, doctor and explorer
• May 10 - Wilhelm Kolle, German bacteriologist
• September 28 - Hans Baluschek, German painter
• August 12 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician
• August 27 - Otto Schott, German chemist
• October 8 - Hans Tropsch, German chemist
• December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German-journalist, satirist and writer