Best chances to stop Hitler?

Who had the best chances, to come to / stay in power and stop Hitler?


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Who had the best chances, to come to power In Germany and stop Hitler?

(For people that decased pre 1933, the assumption ist that they lived longer)
 
Stresemann. If he'd not died in 1929 and had instead got the right backers to propel him back to the Chancellorship, extremism would not necessarily have re-emerged during the Depression.
 
A British sniper in WW1. A policeman in Nuremburg in 1923. Or a timetraveling Albert Einstein in 1924;):D:p.
 
If Wilhelm Marx edges out Hindenburg in 1925 (or Hindenburg doesn't run) he probably does not dissolve the Reichstag in 1930, so that the 1928 Reichstag (containing only a dozen or so Nazis) continues until 1933. Wit any luck at all, the NSDAP may go broke before then. In any event, it is likely to be much more marginal in 1932, giving President Marx a good chance of re-election.
 
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Apart from killing the guy somehow, somewhen, somewhere - the best and IMHO rather automatic possibility is another death. It is not so implausible that the rather aged Hindenburg dies a few years earlier. If there are presidential elections to be held between 1928 and early 1931, there would probably a new Reichspräsident either belonging to the democratic parties (Marx again?) or someone moderately right-wing (Lettow-Vorbeck e.g.).

Having the 7-year-tenure in mind, such a president could ride out the Great Depression, not having to fear elections until 1935/38.
 

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von Hindenburg, von Papen or Ludendorf. Pretty ,much replace crazy Nazis with authoritarian right wingers. Still dictatorship, but not nearly as bad (and they'd probably still enfdup losing a 2nd Great War, but still, better than Nazis).
 
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