gov leaders
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- Created on: 07-09-21 18:05
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- German Government
- key figures
- all looking to reorder Weimar Parliamentary system into more authoritarian gov
- Paul von Hindenburg
- Article 48
- last obstacle to Hitler dictatorship
- Hindenburg discussing more authoritarian system to 'put an end to impotence politics'
- presidency - 1925-34
- Hermann Muller
- elections between 1924-28 produced series of coalition govs - 'Grand coalition' strongest
- Muller had support in Reichstag (unlike other Chancellors)
- May 1928 became chancellor again - Grand Coalition - failed to solve Depression unemployment
- didn't have support of Hindenburg
- Henrich Bruning
- Chancellor 1930-32
- 1930 = called new elections - exteremist gains
- action to reduce depression and his 'austerity programme' - nickname 'hunger chancellor'
- most prepared to accept role of Reichstag- hard to work with them + hostility to Nazis weakened his position
- Franz von Papen
- limited politics experience - asked to be chancellor 1932
- after dismissal intrigued with Hitler to replace Scheicher
- Jan 1933 - app vice-chancellor
- most hostile with Reichstag - gov of barons had no chance of getting reichtag support
- Kurt von Schleicher
- considered army the rue embodiment of the nation - tried hard to make the army the center of power
- responsible for getting Hindenburg to appoint Bruning, then Papen and then himself
- contributed to intrigues behind Bruning's downfall (1932) and helped bring app of Papen
- tried to create broader based gov through links with TU and the more socialist wing of Nazis - failed like Bruning considered agrarian reforms - upset elities
- key figures
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