1933 in Germany

Events in the year 1933 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

* President: Paul von Hindenburg
* Chancellor:
**Kurt von Schleicher (until 28 January 1933)
**Adolf Hitler (from 30 January 1933)

Events In Germany

* 30 January – Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.
* 1 February – Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation to the German People" in Berlin.
* 27 February – The Reichstag, Germany's parliament building in Berlin, is set on fire under controversial circumstances.
* 28 February – The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in response to the Reichstag fire, nullifying many German civil liberties.
* 1 March – Hundreds are arrested as the Nazis round up their political opponents.
* 5 March – German federal election, March 1933: National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes.
* 8 March – Nazis occupy the Bavarian State Parliament and expel deputies.
* 12 March – Hindenburg bans the flag of the republic and orders the Imperial and Nazi flag to fly side by side.
* 15 March – Hitler proclaims the Third Reich.
* 20 March – Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed (it opens 22 March).
* 21 March – Jewish organizations announce an economic boycott of German goods.
* 23 March – The '' Reichstag'' passes the Enabling Act ("The law for removing the distress of people and the Reich"), making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany, curbing its own power.
* 26 March – Air minister Hermann Göring denies that Germany's Jews are in danger.

* 1 April – The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organise a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.
* 7 April – The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service is passed, forcing all "non-Aryans" to retire from the legal profession and civil service.
* 21 April – Germany outlaws the kosher ritual shechita.
* 26 April – The ''Gestapo'' is established in Germany.
* 27 April – '' Der Stahlhelm'' veterans organisation joins the Nazi Party.

* 10 May – Nazi book burnings are staged publicly throughout Germany.
* 26 May – The Nazi Party introduces a law to legalise eugenic sterilisation.
* 2 June – The Nazi authorities form the ' Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy' under Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick.
* 21 June – All non-Nazi political parties are forbidden.
* 25 June – The Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegates convene in Berlin to protest against the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany.
* 14 July – Forming new political parties is forbidden. The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring is implemented.
* 20 July – Signing of the ''Reichskonkordat'' between the Vatican and Nazi Germany.
* 23 August – The Nazis publish the first of the four lists of people whose German citizenship, passports and other privileges are withdrawn. On the first list of thirty-three names are the Jewish authors Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Ernst Toller and Kurt Tucholsky.
* 25 August – The Haavara Agreement is signed between Nazi Germany, the Zionist Federation of Germany and the Anglo-Palestine Bank, allowing approximately 60,000 German Jews to leave Germany and move to Palestine.
* 30 August–3 September – The 5th Nazi Party Congress is held in Nuremberg and is called the "Rally of Victory" (''Reichsparteitag des Sieges'') in reference to the Nazi seizure of powerSpiegel.de
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* 16 October – Germany officially announces its intention to leave the League of Nations.

Births

* 20 March — Michael Pfleghar, German film director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
* 15 May — Ursula Schleicher, German politician and harpist
* 29 May — Helmuth Rilling, German choral conductor
* 8 June — Ernst W. Hamburger, German-born Brazilian physicist (d. 2018)
* 5 July — Michael Heltau, German actor and singer
* 11 July — Ernst Jacobi, German actor (d. 2022
* 14 July — Franz, Duke of Bavaria, Germany royal
* 10 September — Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (d. 2019)
* 23 October — Yigal Tumarkin, German-born Israeli painter and sculptor (d. 2021)
* 6 November — Else Ackermann, German physician, pharmacologist and politician (d. 2019)
* 4 December — Horst Buchholz, German actor (d. 2003)

Deaths

* 3 January — Wilhelm Cuno, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (born 1876)
* 14 February – Carl Correns, German botanist and geneticist (born 1864)
* 7 September — Max Adalbert, German actor (born 1874)
*11 October — Reinhold Tiling, German engineer (born 1893)

References

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