Hitler's appointment as Chancellor
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- Hitler's rise to power
- Von Papen
- Nazis were the largest party in the Reichstag after the July 1932 election
- He wanted to create a more authoritarian state
- He ended the ban on the SA and street fighting became so bad that he had to take over the state of Prussia
- Destroyed the federal principal and led to centralisation of the state
- Hitler had rejected the role of Vice-Chancellor so Von Papen didn't have a majority
- With the support of Hindenburg, Von Papen tried to dissolve the Reichstag and hold fresh elections but the opposition passed a vote of no confidence
- Elections were called in November 1932 and the Nazis lost 2 million votes
- May 1932 - December 1932
- The Müller government
- Herman Müller was the leader of the Great Coalition
- The Great Coalition: SPD, DDP, ZP and the DVP
- Coalition started falling apart by the end of 1929 due to the financing of the dole
- The SPD didn't want unemployment benefits to be cut
- DVP was arguing for reductions
- The cabinet and chancellor resigned in March 1930
- Gave Hindenburg the opportunity to appoint Brüning as chancellor
- The Brüning government
- Henrich Brüning was the leader of the Centre Party
- Hindenburg and General Schleicher hoped that a more right-wing government would support rearmament and run Germany without the Reichstag
- Brüning wanted to decrease the spending of the government and aimed to slow down inflation
- Through deflationary policies, increasing taxes and decreasing welfare spending
- These were defeated in the Reichstag
- Hindenburg tried to use Article 48 to push the legislation through but then the Reichstag was dissolved
- These were defeated in the Reichstag
- He wanted to end reparations and form a customs union with Austria but the French then decided to stop an emergency loan, causing a banking crisis
- Through deflationary policies, increasing taxes and decreasing welfare spending
- March 1930 - May 1932
- Hitler was unwilling to prop up Brüning and so it was the SPD that formed a coalition to keep out Hitler
- September 1930 elections
- Nazis became the second largest party
- Large electoral turnout
- Capitalised on the ineptitude of the Weimar democracy
- Nazis appealed across the classes
- The SA challenged the paramilitary forces of the KPD and SPD
- Electioneering was well organised
- The main message was about a divided society due to the failure of democracy
- Von Schleicher
- The army didn't want to support Von Papen so the government was dismissed
- Kurt von Schleicher approached some Nazis to join his government but Hitler blocked it
- He also tried to get the support of the SPD and trade unions which worried industrialists
- After Hindenburg withdrew his support, von Schleicher resigned on the 28th January
- December 1932 - January 1933
- Von Papen
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