1937 in Germany

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Events in the year 1937 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Head of State and Chancellor

• Adolf Hitler (the Führer) (Nazi Party)

Events

May 6: Hindenburg disaster

• 10 March — The Encyclical Mit brennender Sorge of Pope Pius XI is published in Nazi Germany.
• 6 May — Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirteen passengers, 22 crew and one member of the ground crew were killed.
• 7 May — Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion Fighter Group, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
• 28 May — Volkswagen, state-owned carmaker, is formed to produce the new people's car.
• 8 June — Carl Orff's Carmina Burana premieres in Frankfurt, Germany.
• 20 July — The Geibeltbad Pirna is opened in Dresden, Germany.
• 6-13 September — The 9th Nazi Party Congress is held and titled the "Rally of Labour" (Reichsparteitag der Arbeit) to highlight the reduction of unemployment in Germany since the Nazi rise to power.
• 13 October — Germany, in a note to Brussels, guarantees the inviolability and integrity of Belgium so long as the latter abstains from military action against Germany
• 5 November — In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people (recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum)

Births

• 15 January — Walter Stöhrer, German painter (died 2000)
• 20 February — Robert Huber, German biochemist and Nobel laureate
• 2 May – Gisela Elsner, German writer (died 1992)
• 3 May – Hans Cieslarczyk, German football player (died 2020)
• 1 July – Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, German jurist (died 2021)
• 4 July – Wolf von Lojewski, German television journalist
• 26 July – Peter Fleischmann, German film director (died 2021)
• 1 November - Witta Pohl, German actress (died 2011)
• 11 November – Marlene Schmidt, German actress and beauty queen
• 16 November – Lothar Späth, German politician (died 2016)
• 23 November - Karl Mildenberger, German boxer (died 2018)
• 29 December — Dieter Thomas Heck, German actor (died 2018)

Deaths

• 4 January – Paul Behncke, German admiral (born 1869)
• 12 March — Julius Geppert, German pharmacologist (born 1856)
• 18 March — Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general (born 1852)
• 18 April – Max von Gallwitz, German general (born 1852)
• 7 May – Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain of the Hindenburg (b. 1886)
• 27 November — Wilhelm Weinberg, German physician and geneticist (born 1862)