Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes Führer
1934 · Event
Within hours of the old president's death, the offices of chancellor and president are merged in Hitler's person — and every soldier of the armed forces swears a new oath, not to the constitution but to Adolf Hitler by name. The rise is complete; there is no legal check left.
On these timelines: Hitler's Rise to Power, Germany, Master, World War II
More from Hitler's Rise to Power
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Night of the Long Knives (1934)
- Beer Hall Putsch (1923)
- The Nazis become Germany's largest party (1932)
- Germany becomes a one-party state (1933)
- The Nazis break through at the polls (1930)
- Dachau concentration camp opens (1933)
- The first anti-Jewish boycott (1933)
Around 1934
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Hitler's rule of Germany (1933)