DBWI: Who's been the best Reichspräsident so far?

Who's the best?

  • Friedrich Ebert (living longer)

    Votes: 1 3.7%
  • Paul von Hindenburg (making less trouble)

    Votes: 1 3.7%
  • Stresemann/L-V/other random Ebert/Hindenburg ascendant saving Weimar)

    Votes: 5 18.5%
  • Random Social Democrat in the 1940s after aforemention ascendant and before next one

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Konrad Adenauer

    Votes: 8 29.6%
  • Adenauer's bloodyoung conservative successor (no Erhard please, rather a Strauß)

    Votes: 1 3.7%
  • The Social Democrat ruling the 1960s and 1970s

    Votes: 5 18.5%
  • That conservative ruling Germany in the late 1970s and early 1980s

    Votes: 1 3.7%
  • The other, more moderate conservative ruling most of the 1980s

    Votes: 1 3.7%
  • The Social Democrat of the late 1980s and early 1990s

    Votes: 1 3.7%
  • The moderate conservative ruling the 1990s till mid-2000s

    Votes: 2 7.4%
  • The almost too little of an ideology-following president we have now

    Votes: 1 3.7%

  • Total voters
    27
I'd like to know your very personal answer on that highly disputable question.


(OOC: All poll options of course OOC as well)
 
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I think everybody agree, that Adenauer is the natural choice for this. He was our great leader during the II. World War. I allways wondered what would have happend, if he hadn´t been assasinated by the bloody bolschewist (sour loser they are) in 1956. Propably not 14 years of Sozi-mess in the 60th/70th.

As Nr. 2 I would mention Hugo Eckener (1932-1939). It was rough times for the republic. (Eckener run 1932 against a Mussolini-imposter calles Hynkel, who was really messed up)
 
Adenauer? Eckener? Are you kiddin'? - Franz Josef Strauß is the one that outshines them all.
Who gave us assured third strike capability? Who saw us safely through the cold war with the Second Entente? Who made us lead nation again in science and technology? Whose name does our lunar colony carry?
Franz Josef Strauß is the one!
 
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Adenauer? Eckener? Are you kiddin'? - Franz Josef Strauß is the one that outshines them all.
Who gave us assured third strike capability? Who saw us safely through the cold war with the Second Entente? Who made us lead nation again in science and technology? Whose name does our lunar colony carry?
Franz Josef Strauß is the one!

Then I wonder why Kurt Schumacher kicked his ass in the 1963 election.
 
Only good that notorious "peacebringer" suffered a stroke one year later and Strauß was re-elected. Socialists simply are no good for the fatherland, much too soft.
 
Only good that notorious "peacebringer" suffered a stroke one year later and Strauß was re-elected. Socialists simply are no good for the fatherland, much too soft.

What are you smoking? Schumacher was President from 1963 - 1977.

OOC: ERROR, ERROR. We have a social democrat president in most of the sixties and the seventies. Look the poll. Strauß is the succesor of Adenauer.
 
Only good that notorious "peacebringer" suffered a stroke one year later and Strauß was re-elected. Socialists simply are no good for the fatherland, much too soft.

Maybe I misintepreted your post, but in any case, Strauß was 1964 not reelected as ReichsPRESIDENT. He was elected as ReichsCHANCELOR. Actually, some people say it was the last time the Chancelor really dominatetd german politics. So some people call the time from 1964 to 1970, Strauß "second" term.
Yes, Schumacher had a minor stroke in 1964, but it was not really a handicap for him. And he defeated Strauß a second time in 1970. (But after that . Schumachers health really went downhill. Maybe it would have be better, that he hadn´t brought his term to an end.
 
I'd have to say Kurt Ahrends (1977-1985). I mean, this was the guy who actually abided by the ruling of the Constitutional Court illegalizing abortion - despite a very, VERY hostile Reichstag. Of course, when he declined to seek reelection, the government went right ahead and acted like the Americans..."kinder and gentler" my left foot.
 
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I'd have to say Stoiber (1977-1985). I mean, this was the guy who actually abided by the ruling of the Constitutional Court illegalizing abortion - despite a very, VERY hostile Reichstag. Of course, when he declined to seek reelection, the government went right ahead and acted like the Americans..."kinder and gentler" my left foot.

OOC: OTL Stoiber? I renounced to use names for later leaders on purpose to unfold the butterfly effect. I assume anybody born after c. 1930 to be butterflied away.
 
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