Germany wins the First World War: Speculating about its political future

This has been an interesting debate so far. But, if I may interject, the focus has been exclusively on a scenario where the CP win after a long, drawn-out conflict. What would German politics look like if the war had been shorter? What if the Marne broke in the Germany's favor? Would a shorter and less devastating war remove the conditions which facilitated the military's increased grip on the government or was that simply inevitable?

As I stated above, a rapid central power's victory gives Wilhelm and the Generals more capital to maintain the status quo and or wrangle some more money out of the SDP.

The SDP supported the war and voted war credits and bonds; in the euphoria of victory Wilhelm and the generals could propagandize for more cash; but they wouldn't get anywhere with saying SDP and trade unions where a societal problem or unpatriotic; and Wilhelm's pet right wing Nationalist parties would continue to not accomplish anything; even if elections where called right after victory it's unlikely you would see a noticeably different governing group sent to the Reichstag
 
But how long could that status quo realistically be maintained? I feel at some point in the future something would have to give politically
 
But how long could that status quo realistically be maintained? I feel at some point in the future something would have to give politically

Probably as soon as the next economic down turn in which the SDP decides they need to cut funding from the army and navy for social programs

Wilhelm and the generals can either see the writing on the wall and play nice or the SDP whips them with general strikes and changes the equation permanently

The SDP wouldn't be immediately disposed to terminate the monarchy, which was a popular institution; but they would have little difficulty changing his role to ceremonial or installing the more worldly Louis Ferdinand to the throne
 
I actually happened upon an interesting quotation in a book today. It appears to be a proposed army plan to enact counterrevolutionary action in the event of mass revolt. Whether or not a victorious Germany would attempt to impose such a scheme on a mass scale if its rulers found themselves to be threatened from within is anybody's guess, of course.

"The first measures which must be taken, at the same time as the state of siege is declared, are the suppression of all papers which follow the revolutionary line, and the arrest of their editors, along with all persons known to be leaders and agitators, without taking any notice of the immunity of the Reichstag members...There can be only one condition--unconditional surrender. All ringleaders or whoever is caught with a weapon in his possession are to be executed."-General Freiherr von Bissing, order to the VII Army Corps, 30 April 1907; Martin Kitchen, 'The German Officer Corps 1890-1914" (1968) p. 165.
 
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