AHC: With a POD after the Beer Hall Putsch, save Weimar Germany

Pretty much exactly what it says in the title, preserve democratic governance in the Weimar Republic as long as possible. POD may be either domestic or foreign, but cannot involve Germany starting a war as aggressor.
 
Paul von Hindenburg is overheard making some condescending remarks about Catholics in general and Bavarian Catholics in special during the 1925 presidential election campeign. As a result he loses a significant part of the BVP votes and Wilhelm Marx (Zentrum) is elected and in 1932 reelected as Reichspräsident.

When the DVP walks out of the multiparty (SPD-Zentrum-DDP-DVP) coalition government in 1930 he provides Chancellor Hermann Müller (SPD) with the emergency powers of Article 48 to continue his rump SPD-Zentrum-DDP coalition minority government (after Müller's death in 1931 under the chancellorship of Heinrich Brüning (Zentrum)), a support he would continue to provide even after the significant losses of the grand coalition parties in the 1932 Reichstag elections (with substantial gains for both the far-right NSDAP and the far-left KPD) and Otto Wels (SPD) replacing Brüning as Chancellor.

After the 1936 elections result in slight gains for the grand coalition government parties and the moderate centre-right DVP and a majority government can, at least mathematically, be once again formed from moderate parties the DVP decides to enter the grand coalition once again after being promised several important cabinet positions.
 
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