July, 1932: Reichstag election results come in. Zentrum, DNVP, and SDP form a coalition against the NSDAP who take 29.5% of the popular vote and their archerivals the KPD who take 16% of the vote. Many scholars believe that the Nazi party would have won greater votes if not for the slight economic recovery a month prior reducing the fear in German weakness and the weakness of democracy. (SDP wins 28.3% of the vote.) Violence erupts in Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart, Cuxhaven, and Frankfurt between NSDAP members, KPD members, and authorities. The slight economic recovery falls through and the reichsmark plummets even further. President Hindenburg wants stability to avoid total anarchy so appoints General August Makensen, thinking that a former general would boost the populaces morale.
December, 1932: on December 14 Hindenburg is assassinated by a Nazi official and Mackensen is placed in power. Mackensen temporarily disbands the Reichstag and calls Zentrum, DNVP, SDP, and BVP party leaders as well as foreign diplomats from the United Kingdom, United States, and France to help draft a new German constitution. Mackensen denies the League of Nations officials from supervising. The NSDAP and KPD protest their lack of inclusion fervently and many of them are jailed including most radicals and party officials. (Many less radical members of these parties stay quiet and some even support Mackensen. Many of those who do later form the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP) (German Workers Party) and the Deutsche Nationalistische Partei (DNP) (German Nationalist Party.)) Those working on the the new constitution (known as the Brandenburg committee) worked night and day for two and a half weeks.
January, 1933: The New Constitution comes into effect. The Reichstag is rebuilt but decreased to 150 members and where the President can break ties. Kaiser Wilhelm II is allowed back into Germany and is recrowned Kaiser although he has no power and is nothing more than a figurehead and national symbol. German State Governors are given more power and General elections for both the Reichstag and president commence on the 31st of March and will happen every four years.
February, 1933: The second coronation of Wilhelm II happens and three makor candidates take the lead in early polling. The KPD and NSDAP are disbanded officially due to sowing dissent and condoning violence against government officials around the 1932 Weimar election. The three main presidential candidates are incumbent August Mackensen representing no party, Otto Wells representing SDP, and Frederick Weber representing DAP.
March, 1933: The results come in for the Reichstag elections; SDP and Zentrum win the most seats, 54 for SDP and 49 for Zentrum. The DAP follow close behind though with 24 seats. Frederick Weber loses the election for president with only 22% of the votes. Otto Wells wins 35% of the votes and Mackensen wins with 40% of the votes. The remainder of the votes go to minor candidates and one of the reasons Mackensen wins is the huge turnout of Zentrum voters for him. This splits the Zentrum, SDP, DNVP coalition due to spite between the two main parties.
April, 1933: Mackensen is resworn into office and appoints Ludwig Kaas, leader of Zentrum, to be his Chancellor. Mackensen opens talks with France and Britain to loosen reperations set onto Germany by the Treaty of Versailles and to suggest a possible joining into an alliance by Germany.