Was it possible for the kaiserreich to return to Germany either during the Weimar or Nazi leadership?
Not just no, but hell no. The Kaiser was universally reviled.Was it possible for the kaiserreich to return to Germany either during the Weimar or Nazi leadership?
Has a new monarchy ever been created by those means?There might be some sort of monarchy in some sort of authoritarian right wing post-Weimar regime. But not with Kaiser Wilhelm II and not with exactly the same political system.
During the Weimar era, yeah it's possibleWas it possible for the kaiserreich to return to Germany either during the Weimar or Nazi leadership?
No shit Sherlock...Wilson was a very shitty political scientist and mediocre historian.
Well he was a rather shitty human too but in American canon he is the guy who won WWI. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character who sadly cannot help us with giving Wilson any better luck finding his way.No shit Sherlock...
Wasn’t Franco’s Spain that sort of thing: an old Monarchy restored under a new right wing dictatorship?Has a new monarchy ever been created by those means?
The question I was replying to was whether a new monarchy could be established. Spain brought back an old one.Wasn’t Franco’s Spain that sort of thing: an old Monarchy restored under a new right wing dictatorship?
The new emperor needs to come from the House of Hohenzollern. (I don't know why some people from time to time suggest a catholic Bavarian from the House of Wittelsbach as a new monarch in these scenarios). I doubt that Hindenburg as a ultra-conservative monarchists wants to become monarch himself, that would be against is own concept of honor.
Because the current claimant was more popular than the Hohenzollerns at the time, at least in Bavaria. So how about this- what if instead of restoring the Kaiserreich, German monarchy is restored via an Austrian-type devolution into a multi-headed monarchy, with the stronger/more popular princes, such as in Bavaria, becoming the leaders of this multi-headed monarchy?
In the scenario of a successfull coup against the Nazis the conspirators planned to reinstate the Hohenzollern. Before 1940 they wanted to reinstate Wilhelm von Preußen an after his death his younger brother Louis Ferdinand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Wilhelm_of_Prussia_(1906–1940)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Ferdinand,_Prince_of_Prussia
I could also see a DNVP-Zentrum Junta reinstating the Hohenzollern if the Nazis never come to power.