What day did Hitler take office?
Adolf Hitler's rise to power
On 30 January 1933, the new cabinet was sworn in during a brief ceremony in Hindenburg's office. The NSDAP gained three posts: Hitler was named chancellor, Wilhelm Frick Minister of the Interior, and Hermann Göring, Minister Without Portfolio (and Minister of the Interior for Prussia).[71][72] The SA and SS led torchlit parades throughout Berlin. It is this event that would become termed Hitler's Machtergreifung ("seizure of power"). The term was originally used by some Nazis to suggest a revolutionary process,[73] though Hitler, and others, used the word Machtübernahme ("take-over of power"), reflecting that the transfer of power took place within the existing constitutional framework[73] and suggesting that the process was legal.[74][75]
J. Hans D. Jensen
Adolf Hitler took power on 30 January 1933. On 7 April of that year the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was enacted; this law, and its subsequent related ordinances, politicized the education system in Germany. Other factors enforcing the politicization of education were "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" (NSDAP, National Socialist German Workers Party) organizations in academia and the rise of the "Deutsche Physik" movement, which was anti-Semitic and had a bias against theoretical physics, especially including quantum mechanics. The Party organizations were the "Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund" (NSDStB, National Socialist German Student League) founded in 1926, the "Nationalsozialistischer Lehrerbund" (NSLB, National Socialist Teachers League) founded in 1927, and the "Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Dozentenbund" (NSDDB, National Socialist German University Lecturers League) founded in 1933. While membership in the NSDDB was not mandatory, it was tactically advantageous, if not unavoidable, as the district leaders had a decisive role in the acceptance of an "Habilitationsschrift", which was a prerequisite to attaining the rank of "Privatdozent" necessary to becoming a university lecturer.