1 January 1931InaugurationAdolf Hitler
The NSDAP HQ is inaugurated
Historical records for Germany in 1931, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
The NSDAP HQ is inaugurated
Directs the film version of The Threepenny Opera.
The SA ban is lifted & Hitler Re-affirms policy of "legality"
The SA ban is lifted & Hitler Re-affirms policy of "legality". Schleicher removes the Nazi bans & forbids the SA to take part in any street-fighting
Appointed Member of NSDAP, number 474,481
Appointed Member of SA
Directs M, his first sound film.
Receives an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Oxford.
Makes an agreement in Berlin with Hugenburg & the German National Party. Issues a joint statement agreeing to co-operate in "overthrowing" the existing system
Joint statement with Hitler to cooperate in "overthrowing" the existing system
Issues a joint statement agreeing to co-operate in "overthrowing" the existing system
Joint statement with Hitler to cooperate in "overthrowing" the existing system
Appointed Chancellor of Germany
Appointed Foreign Minister
Appointed Minister of the Interior by Chancellor Bruening
Begins supplying French intelligence with secret German Enigma operating instructions and key material.
Directs Kameradschaft, a drama about Franco-German mine rescue.
Appointed Pastor of the Berlin Congregation
Allies the Army with the Nazi Party
Publication of "Bauern Bonzen Und Bomben"
Goering founds a mausoleum in memory of his former wife
Appointed Chairman of the NSDAPs Party Economic Council
Appointed Chief of Staff, Transport Troops where he works on tank forces
Hitler's niece & lover commits suicide
Death of Carin Goering, dies of TB, Goerings 1st wife
Emigrates to the USA in 1931
Publication of "Die Gottin met der Fackel"
Works with Ernst Ruska to construct an early transmission electron microscope using magnetic lenses.
Germany imposes exchange controls after its banking crisis, ending effective gold convertibility.
Adopts an expanding cosmological model and abandons the need for his earlier static-universe construction.
Demonstrates that a magnetic coil can focus an electron beam, establishing the basic lens principle of electron optics.
Appointed the rank of Major
Speer marries Margarete Weber
Goering founds a mausoleum in memory of his former wife
Appointed Chairman of the NSDAPs Party Economic Council
Sent to Austria in 1931 as Landesinspekteur to oversee the reorganisation of the Nazi Party in Austria
Appointed Member of NSDAP
Removes the prohibition on Nazi enlistment. Allows Nazis to work in arsenals & supply depots
Gives three Rhodes Memorial Lectures on relativity, cosmology and his latest work in theoretical physics.
Appointed leader of the German Nationalist movement in Czechoslovakia by Hitler
Receives the Prix Jules Janssen for distinguished work in astronomy and astrophysics.
Appointed head of the party organisation (Reichsorganisationsleiter) following Hitler's dismissal of Gregor Strasser in an internal dispute
Resigns after the Boxheim documents are found in his possession, Nazi blue-print
One of the leaders of the anti-capitalistic wing of the NSDAP, publishes several papers, including "Was will Adolf Hitler?"
Heydrichs counterintelligence service grows into an effective machine of terror and intimidation, it is was officially named Sicherheitsdienst [SD] - Security Service, an intelligence organisation wholly committed to the defence of Nazism. Helps found the Sicherheitsdienst, the State Security Service
Helps found the Sicherheitsdienst, the State Security Service
Einstein abandons the need for a static cosmological model after cosmic expansion becomes established, leaving the cosmological constant without its original motivation.
The SA are banned from wearing military uniforms
Hitler sees more of Braun after the suicide of Geli Raubal
Hitler's niece & lover commits suicide
The circulation of the Voelkischer Beobachter wrises along with the success of the Nazi movement, reaching more than 120,000 in 1931
The circulation of the Voelkischer Beobachter wrises along with the success of the Nazi movement, reaching more than 120,000 in 1931
One of the leaders of the anti-capitalistic wing of the NSDAP, publishes several papers, including "Was will Adolf Hitler?"
The coalitions goal is the enactment of the Freiheitsgesetz ("Liberty Law"), renounces all reparations and makes it a criminal offense for any German official to cooperate in their collection. Renounces the German acknowledgement of "war guilt" and the occupation of German territory which were also terms of the Versailles Treaty. Leads a right wing nationalist coalition against the Young Plan
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