Of “German blooded”, “mixed race” and Jews:
With the “Nuremberg Laws” the national-socialist racial theory becomes the official basis of life and love in the Third Reich. In the meantime, about 300,000 sunflowers at Dammtor station are “blooming towards disappointment”: the city’s economy is still weak, the reintroduced conscription is not welcomed by everybody either and the disruptions caused by the inner-Nazi struggle for power around the alleged Röhm coup the year before still have an effect. In order to raise the still somewhat blown morale, a huge horticultural show focusing on domestic plants is set up – on graves: the area which was to become the park ‘Planten en Blomen’ was half a zoological garden and a cemetery before.
Timeline General
- 13 January: 90.7% of the voters say yes to the reunification of the Saarland (which was under administration of the League of Nations after WWI) with the German Reich.
- 15 January: The national-socialist education policy, together with the “race- and genetics theory”, becomes compulsory for all schools.
- 16 March: Although prohibited under the Treaty of Versailles, Adolf Hitler reintroduces general conscription. The “Reichswehr” is renamed in “Wehrmacht”.
- 15 September: The Reichstag passes the “Nuremberg Laws” which prohibits marriages between Jews and non-Jews and disenfranchises the former from the right to vote and other civil rights.
Timeline Hamburg
6 June: Mayor Carl Vincent Krogmann opens the “Niederdeutsche Gartenschau Planten un Blomen” (Lower Germany horticultural show ‘Planten en Blomen’ (plants and flowers’) near Dammtor station.
6 December: During an address in Hamburg, aviation minister Hermann Göring says, in the face of bottlenecks in the supply with milk products, that “iron ore for rearmament would make a people strong” while “butter and grease”, in contrast, “only fat at best”.
Timeline Persons
- 29 April: Wilhelm Koch is approved as “club leader” again.
- 30 May to 3 June: The four-day agricultural exhibition of the “Reichsnährstand” organisation (of which all farmers and farming businesses in the 3rd Reich must be member) on the Heiligengeistfeld puts Wilhelm Koch to his first serious test: cattle and potato sheds ruin the only recently laid lawn pitch.
- May: In a commemorative journal of the Rugby department, Paul Lang is mentioned as member for the last time.
- November: The club celebrates its 25th anniversary. The Jewish brothers Otto and Paul Lang are not mentioned in the commemorative journal. It is likely that they have left the club before. Otto Lang flees Germany before the year is over while Paul (who is married to an “aryan” wife) stays.