25th February 1932: Adolf Hitler gains German citizenship, having been stateless for seven years and unable to run for public office

Numerous attempts to secure him German citizenship were attempted over the next few years, but it wasn’t until 1932 that a solution was found when Dietrich Klagges, a Nazi Party member who was serving as the Minister of the Interior for the Free State of Brunswick, arranged for Hitler to be appointed as an administrator for the state’s delegation to the Reichsrat in Berlin on 25 February ...