Timeline of Events
- 1933
- January 30
- February 28
- March 22
- April 1
- April 7
- April 25
- May 10
- July 14
- September 17
- October 4
- November 24
- 1934
- June 30
- August 2
- August 19
- 1935
- April 1
- June 28
- September 15
- 1936
- August 1
- August 3
- 1937
- July 15
- November 8
- 1938
- March 11
- March 14
- May 29
- July 6
- August 17
- September 29
- October 5
- November 9
- November 11
- November 12
- December 2
Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor
Adolf Hitler greets President Paul von Hindenburg at the state opera house. —Federation Nationale des Deportes et Internes Resistants et Patriotes
January 30, 1933
The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), more commonly known as the Nazi Party, assumes control of the German state when German President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler as Chancellor at the head of a coalition government. The Nazis and the German Nationalist People's Party (Deutschnationale Volkspartei; DNVP) are members of the coalition.
On the day of his appointment as German chancellor, Adolf Hitler greets a crowd of enthusiastic Germans from a window in the Chancellery building. Berlin, Germany, January 30, 1933. —Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
