1937 in Germany

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Events in the year 1937 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Head of State

• Adolf Hitler (the Führer) (Nazi Party)

Chancellor

• Adolf Hitler (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.
• 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).
• 16 November - Sabena OO-AUB Ostend crash

Births

• 2 January - Martin Lauer, German sprinter
• 15 January — Walter Stöhrer, German painter (died 2000)
• 31 January - Hans Dresig, Professor for Applied mechanics and Theory of Mechanisms and Machines (died 2018)
• 8 February: Manfred Krug, German actor (died 2016)
• 18 March - Rudi Altig, German cyclist (died 2016)
• 19 March - Egon Krenz, German politician
• 20 March - Helmut Recknagel, German ski jumper
• 22 March - Armin Hary, German sprinter
• 23 May - Rupert Scholz, German politician
• 2 April - Alexandra Kluge, German actress (died 2017)
• 3 April - Annekathrin Bürger, German actress
• 25 April - Wolfgang Zapf, German sociologe (died 2018)
• 8 February — Manfred Krug, German actor (died 2016)
• 13 February - Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut and pilot
• 17 February - Rita Süssmuth, German politician (CDU)
• 20 February — Robert Huber, German biochemist and Nobel laureate
• 29 May - Alwin Schockemöhle, German equestrian
• 14 June - Hans-Ulrich Klose, German politician
• 24 June - Hans Tiedge, German spy (died 2011)
• 5 July - Anke Fuchs, German politician
• 7 July - Konrad Wirnhier, German sport shooter (died 2002)
• 16 August - Gerhard Pohl, German politician (died 2012)
• 20 August - Georg Thoma, German skier
• 13 October - Rudolf Seiters, German politician
• 27 October — Peter Lustig, German television presenter and author of children's books (died 2016)
• November - Bruno Steinhoff, German businessman
• 1 November - Witta Pohl, German actress (died 2011)
• 16 November - Lothar Späth, German politician (died 2016)
• 20 November - René Kollo, German tenor
• 20 December - Manfred Lahnstein, German politician
• 29 December — Dieter Thomas Heck, German actor

Deaths

• July 14 - Walter Simons, German diplomat (born 1861)
• July 30 - Hans von Rosenberg, German diplomat and politician (born 1874)
• September 29 - Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer (born 1878)
• October 7 - Renate Müller, German actress and singer (born 1906)
• October 9 -- Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (born 1868)
• October 10 - Walter Gronostay, German composer (born 1906)
• November 27 - Wilhelm Weinberg, German physician and geneticist (born 1862)
• December 12 - Alfred Abel, German actor (born 1879)
• December 20 - Erich Ludendorff, German general (born 1865)