German HoS and HoG if Hitler had not become chancellor in 1933

I understand that if Hitler had not become chancellor, Franz von Papen would probably have become chancellor instead: he was angling for that position anyway before accepting the position of vice-chancellor in the belief that he would be able to control Hitler. Is this a correct assumption to make, or could that position have also gone to Heinrich Brüning or to Kurt von Schleicher?

And, once Paul von Hindenburg had died in 1934, who would have been the most likely presidential candidates? Would Erich Ludendorff have been able to make a showing? Or are there no obviously viable contenders?
 
Ludendorff isn't a likely contender by this point; this is the man who left the Nazi party because he thought they were too moderate and weren't going to do enough to "deal with" the Jews. By 1934 he's well into retirement and widely regarded as being quite eccentric, not to mention only being a few years away from death himself.
 
Paul Emil Von Lettow-Vorbeck will not be a good candidate and more easily if he has the 'bless of hindenburg?
 
So in regards to chancellors, von Papen, von Schleicher, and Brüning are all possibilities, but would depend on who was actually president at that point? Are there any other possibilities?

I am glad that I am not the only one who is stumped by who would replace Hindenburg, because if nothing else his would be big shoes to fill! Having Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck as president is attractive to me, but would that be a realistic possibility for the German voters of the time? Would any of the candidates from previous elections be viable here?
 
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I am glad that I am not the only one who is stumped by who would replace Hindenburg, because if nothing else his would be big shoes to fill! Having Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck as president is attractive to me, but would that be a realistic possibility for the German voters of the time? Would any of the candidates from previous elections be viable here?

Lettow-Vorbeck probably has a decent chance if he can get the backing of the conservative establishment; as Hindenburg proved, war hero status can count for a lot, and Lettow-Vorbeck probably had the best war hero credentials of any German World War I general. The only possible issue is his participation in the Kapp Putsch, but that was well in the past by 1934, and in any case monarchist sympathies wouldn't necessarily hurt his support among the conservatives.
 
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