Election Dates - WR + N Flashcards
What happened in the May 1928 election?
The SPD was the biggest party.
The Central Party was also quite popular.
Extremist parties are not popular.
Coallition is able to work as the SPD have a large minority, so only need to work with 1 or 2 parties.
Unemployment is low due to the Dawes and Young Plan bringing money in from the USA.
What happened in the September 1930 election?
The SPD is still the largest party.
Nazi Party are second, having gained lots of votes.
The Central Party have lost votes.
Coallition is unable to work as the Central Party have lost some seats making it harder to coallate.
This is due to Heinrich Bruning not being a popular Chancellor - he reduced unemployment but increased taxes.
What happened in the July 1932 elections?
The Nazi Party are the largest party having gone from 107 seats (1930) in the Reichstag to 230 (1932).
The SPD have gone from 143 seats to 133.
Coallitioin is unable to work as the extremist parties have gained more seats.
By this time, Bruning has resigned and Franz Von Paper didn’t have much support and called an election in which the Nazis won.
What happened in the November 1932 election?
The Nazi Party are still the leading party.
The Nazi Party and SPD have both lost seats and the smaller parties have gained votes.
Heinrich Bruning used his emergency powers to give his job to Von Paper after refusing to make Hitler Chancellor.
What did the Nazis do for the 1932 presidential election?
Put up millions of posters and flags.
Hitler gave speeches at mass rallies and held huge metings across Germany.
The SA beat up Commnists and disrupted their meetings, making it hard for them to campaign.
Many Germans felt the chaos and unstable government proved that the Weimar Government was failing.
March 1932: Hitler challenged Hindenburg’s presidency. He won 13.4 million votes against Hindenburgs 19.3 million.
When Hitler demanded the role of Chancellor after his success in the July 1932 election, Hindenburg refused as he saw the Nazi Party as disruptive. This led to him giving the job to Von Papen again.
November 1932: Von Papen called for another election - Nazi’s votes fell slightly but they were still the largest party.
Von Papen’s Centre Party got fewer seats, so he resigned again.
Hindenberg made Kurt von Schleicher Chancellor, but he had little support and resigned.
30th January 1933: Hindenburg had little choice but to make Hitler Chancellor.
He tried to limit his power as appointing von Paper as vice Chancellor, and only allowing Hitler 2 other Nazis in the cabinet.
