1932

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Events

Politics and world affairs

German Reich
15 January: More than six million people are unemployed in Germany.
January 26: Hitler’s speech before the Düsseldorf Industry Club
February 25: Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship.
13 March: In the first round of the Reich presidential election, incumbent Paul von Hindenburg clearly wins over Adolf Hitler, but narrowly misses the absolute majority.

10 April: Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected German Reich President in the second round with 53% of the votes.
13 April: The ban on the SA and SS is decreed in Germany by Minister Wilhelm Groener in the Brüning government. It costs the Chancellor sympathies with the Reich President Paul von Hindenburg and will be rescinded in June by the government of Franz von Papen.
May: Iraqi King Faisal on a state visit to Berlin
13 May: Resignation of the Reichswehr and Interior Minister Wilhelm Groener
30 May: Resignation of Reich Chancellor Heinrich Brüning
9 July: The German government under Franz von Papen achieves an end to the reparations payments imposed by the Treaty of Versailles at the end of the Lausanne conference. The opposition in the Reichstag considers the result of the negotiations to be insufficient.
July 17: During the Altona Bloody Sunday, a shooting between Communists, National Socialists and the police, 18 people are killed and 285 injured.
July 20: At the so-called "English". At the initiative of Reich Chancellor Franz von Papen, Prussia’s acting Prussian government, headed by Otto Braun, is declared deposed by an emergency decree and by declaring a military state of emergency.
31 July: After the Reichstag elections, the NSDAP is the strongest faction for the first time.
September 12: Chancellor von Papen is overthrown by a motion of censure and the Reichstag is dissolved by Reich President Hindenburg.
October 12: Concordat between the Holy See and Baden
November 6: New elections in the Reichstag, loss of votes by the National Socialists
November 17: Resignation of Chancellor Franz von Papen, supported by Hindenburg
November 20: With the industrial input to Hindenburg, 20 representatives from the business community call for Hitler to be appointed Reich Chancellor.

3 December: Kurt von Schleicher is appointed Reichskanzler by Hindenburg and commissioned with the formation of a new presidential cabinet, after Franz von Papen had previously failed in coalition cancellations of the SPD and the centre.
December 8: Resignation of Gregor Strasser from all party offices

Austria
24 April: The simultaneous municipal elections in Styria and Carinthia as well as the state elections in Lower Austria, Salzburg and Vienna bring the National Socialists strong vote wins.
May 27: In the Tyrolean state capital Innsbruck, the Höttingen Saalschlacht calls for the first dead National Socialist in Austria.

Switzerland
January 1st: Giuseppe Motta becomes