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Events in the year 1936 in Germany.

Incumbents

Events

• 6 February — The IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.^[1]
• 7 March — In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.^[2]
• 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, at the end of the first ever Olympic torch relay.^[3] It is also the first occasion in world history when a sporting event is given television coverage.
• The first German volunteers on the nationalist side of the Spanish civil war leave for Spain.^[4]
• 30 August — Ernest Nash flees Germany for Rome.
• 8–14 September — The 8th Nazi Party Congress is held and called the "Rally of Honour" (Reichsparteitag der Ehre) in reference to the remilitarization of the Rhineland in March.
• 26 November — The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Germany and Japan.

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  6 February: The IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
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  The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, August 1936

Births

• 10 January — Walter Bodmer, German-English geneticist and academic^[5]
• 14 January — Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (died 1999)
• 27 January — Wolfgang Böhmer, German politician
• 9 February — Georg Sterzinsky, German cardinal (died 2011)
• 4 March — Aribert Reimann, German composer
• 9 March — Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, head of house of Waldeck and Pyrmont^[6]
• 11 March — Harald zur Hausen, German virologist (died 2023)
• 13 March — Lothar Ahrendt, German politician
• 16 March — Elisabeth Volkmann, German actress (died 2006)
• 30 March — Erwin J. Haeberle, German physician (died 2021)^[7]
• 8 April — Klaus Löwitsch, German actor (died 2002)
• 22 April — Dieter Kronzucker, German journalist
• 9 May — Ulrich Kienzle, German journalist (died 2020)
• 12 May — Klaus Doldinger, German saxophonist
• 16 May
  • Karl Lehmann, German Roman Catholic Cardinal prelate, Bishop of Mainz (died 2018)
  • Manfred Stolpe, German politician (died 2019)
• 21 May — Günter Blobel, German biologist (died 2018)
• 26 May — Franz Magnis-Suseno, German-born Indonesian Jesuit priest
• 29 May
  • Wyn Hoop, German singer
  • Klaus Winter, German judge (died 2000)
• 1 June — Peter Sodann, German actor
• 9 June — Jürgen Schmude, German politician
• 14 June — Wolfgang Behrendt, German boxer
• 21 June — Hans Köhler, German swimmer
• 22 July — Klaus Bresser, German journalist and television presenter
• 25 June — Bert Hölldobler, German sociobiologist and evolutionary biologist
• 28 June — Walter Köstner, German fencer
• 1 July — Lea Rosh, German television journalist, publicist, entrepreneur and political activist
• 2 July — Rex Gildo, German singer (died 1999)
• 7 July — Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician (died 2013)
• 22 July — Klaus Bresser, German journalist
• 1 August — Carl, Duke of Württemberg, German nobleman (died 2022)
• 5 August — Hans Hugo Klein, German judge
• 20 August — Kessler Twins, German singers
• 29 September — Hans D. Ochs, German immunologist
• 10 October — Gerhard Ertl, German physicist
• 12 October — Inge Brück, German singer
• 13 October — Hans Joachim Meyer, German linguist and politician
• 5 November — Uwe Seeler, German footballer (died 2022)
• 15 November — Wolf Biermann, German singer and songwriter
• 8 December — Helmut Markwort, German journalist and magazine founder
• 17 December — Klaus Kinkel, German politician (died 2019)^[8]

Deaths

References