AHC: Friedrich Nietzsche is elected Chancellor of Germany

He'd be a totally different person, a politician who leans one way or another depending on the particulars, with the name Friedrich Nietzsche.

Ooh, or some crazy apocalypse stuff! That would be cool.
 
The problem is that Nietzsche never really showed any particular inclination to get into politics. In his youth he was mostly interested in poetry, music, aesthetics, and philology, only later getting into moral philosophy. And, even then, his moral philosophy is pretty apolitical, despite how often it has been cast otherwise.

I just don't get the impression he cared all that much about politics. So, as Quimporte says, I'm not sure you can get him into a position where he might become chancellor where he isn't a fairly different person. (Of course, by saying that, I'm risking getting into Naming and Necessity territory, and the subsequent headaches...)

EDIT: There's also the difficulty of the fact that in 1869 (I think) he renounced his Prussian citizenship and remained thereafter a stateless individual. I don't know how hard it would be to get into Prussian or, later, German politics as a stateless person, or how easy it would be to get his citizenship back, but I presume it might be a hurdle.
 
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