Hindenburg dies in May 1928

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What if German president Paul von Hindenburg dies during the May 1928 Reichstag elections as the SPD wins?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Müller_(politician)#After_1928
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg#Presidential_government
Stresseman is still alive and the SPD government is just about to get into power without the Schliecher-Hindenburg clique having influence. Who takes over as president at this point and what impact would it have on German politics going into the Great Depression?
 

CaliGuy

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What if German president Paul von Hindenburg dies during the May 1928 Reichstag elections as the SPD wins?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Müller_(politician)#After_1928
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg#Presidential_government
Stresseman is still alive and the SPD government is just about to get into power without the Schliecher-Hindenburg clique having influence. Who takes over as president at this point and what impact would it have on German politics going into the Great Depression?
There would be a new Presidential election shortly after Hindenburg's death, no? After all, is Germany going to have an appointed President for several years?

Also, I suspect that the SPD would win a new Presidential election in Germany due to the good economic times in Germany back then.
 

Deleted member 1487

There would be a new Presidential election shortly after Hindenburg's death, no? After all, is Germany going to have an appointed President for several years?

Also, I suspect that the SPD would win a new Presidential election in Germany due to the good economic times in Germany back then.
I would assume so. The office would probably stand empty until a new one is voted on...but the question is who would win sans Hindy? Who would the SPD really run? They didn't have a majority of the vote in 1928 and barely managed to put a coalition together.
 

CaliGuy

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I would assume so. The office would probably stand empty until a new one is voted on...but the question is who would win sans Hindy? Who would the SPD really run? They didn't have a majority of the vote in 1928 and barely managed to put a coalition together.
What about bringing Wilhelm Marx into another round and endorsing him? True, he was Zentrum, but getting the Zentrum vote plus the SPD vote would make him close to victory.
 

Deleted member 1487

What about bringing Wilhelm Marx into another round and endorsing him? True, he was Zentrum, but getting the Zentrum vote plus the SPD vote would make him close to victory.
They might try to run him, because after the defeat of Zentrum in the May 1928 election he'll probably be SOL.
 

CaliGuy

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Sh*% out of luck.

Braun might be a bridge too far for the majority of the German public to pick...but I was hoping someone that knew more about 1920s Weimar could answer that.
Couldn't Zentrum endorse Braun in the second round, though?
 
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