1936 in Germany

Incumbents

National level

• Adolf Hitler

  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, and mark the first live television coverage of a sports event in world history.
• 30 August — Ernest Nash flees Germany for Rome.
• 8–14 September — The 8th Nazi Party Congress is held and called the "Rally of Honour" in reference to the remilitarization of the Rhineland in March.
• 26 November — The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Germany and Japan.

  Births

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

  Deaths

• 16 January - Oskar Barnack, German inventor and German photographer
• 6 February - Wilhelm Solf, German diplomat
• 20 February — Max Schreck, German actor
• 9 April - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist
• 18 April - Richard Lipinski, German politician
• 4 May - Ludwig von Falkenhausen, German general
• 8 May - Oswald Spengler, German historian
• 22 May - Joseph Koeth, German politician
• 24 July - Georg Michaelis, German politician, former chancellor of Germany
• 20 August - Heinrich Cunow, German politician
• 1 September - Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf, German general
• 7 September — Erich Büttner, German painter
• 9 October — Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski, German writer
• 19 December - Theodor Wiegand, German archaeologist
• 27 December Hans von Seeckt, German chief of staff