Why Hitler Was Invited to Become Chancellor :: Papers

Why Hitler Was Invited to Become prime minister In 1932 the weaknesses of the Weimar temperament were clear to all. Due to its careful balance of power and proportional representation, no political attractor was strong enough to rule. During this period Germany was effectively universe run by 84 year old President Hindenburg. polity was being set by a tiny group of rich, buttoned-up industrialists and army leaders. The Reichstag offered very little leadership. The heart of the problem was that the Nazis were the largest ships company. Normally the leader of such a party would become Chancellor, but the other parties in the Reichstag would not work with Hitler. The constitution gave President Hindenburg the right to appoint Chancellor and he did not want Hitler as Chancellor. So month later on month there were arguments and back-room deals as different politicians struggled to assemble a executable government. The weakness of the Reichstag would have been a problem even if things had been going wellhead in Germany. But when faced with the chronic problems of the Depression it was disastrous. In the July elections of 1932 the Nazis got their exceed ever result with 37.3% of the vote (230 seats.) They were now by far the largest party. Hitler demanded to be appointed Chancellor. Hindenburg despised Hitler, but he could see the value of try to use the Nazis for his own ends. Hindenburg appointed Franz von Papen as his Chancellor. Von Papen had no support in the Reichstag but he hoped he could create a right-wing union government with the support of the Nazis and the other right-wing parties in the Reichstag. Hitler refused to co-operate, so Hindenburg called some other election. This was a bad election for the Nazis. Apathy was settling in. In Northeim the Nazis were in financial trouble and made a public appeal for party funds. In an attempt to regain support, the SA and leading Nazis went to church en masse and got a Protestant minister to speak for them. They placed advertisements in the local anaesthetic papers and