Her was also once received - through his connections with Brüning - by Hindenburg, who rather liked the capable "Oberleutnant" (officer rank short of captain). .. at least much more than the "Gefreiter" Hitler.
I wasn't aware of that, but my point was that Hindenburg and von Papen were looking for a puppet rather than an ally. They realised (quite correctly it must be said) that Hitler didn't care about the ownership of banks and industrial concerns provided they delivered the goods for him and his great priority was rebuilding Germany as a military force. What they got wrong was that Hitler was not the malleable front man they hoped for, they did not hugely misread his policy priorities and would have no huge objections to them in any case.
Once again mixing up Gregor Strasser with Otto Strasser and the "
Beefsteak Nazis" of the latter.
In late 1932 Otto Strasser and his national-bolschewists were already an obscure nonety faction.
No, I can distinguish between the two Strassers but my understanding (and I don't read German so you will no doubt be better informed than me about original sources) was that Gregor wanted state control of the banks and major industrial concerns. What, in Britain, were sometimes described as "the commanding heights of the economy". That he was not as left wing as Otto Strasser (nor indeed would have more than half of the SPD have been) does not necessarily mean that he was as (comparitively) right wing as Adolf Hitler. That Gregor would have been an Attlee to Otto's Lenin and would have nationalised rather than expropriated does not mean that Thyssen, Flick, the Krupps von Bohlen or the von Schroeders would have been happy to relinquish control. It was also my understanding that Strasser agreed with Bruning on an agricultural policy that was unfavourable to large estates. As this appears to have been the reason for Bruning's dismissal, I cannot see this as being appealing to Hindenburg or von Papen either.
Sry but ... not only having been the one responsible for propagande and tghe training of each and every orator of the party since 1926 he was - as a speaker hiomself - only second to Hitler himself. ... even Goebbels didn' t reached his abilities as long as Strasser was still an active orator. Strasser was the 'official' party voice in public and especially in the Reichstag. Goebbels actually learned his stuff from Gregor Strasser.
Thanks. I have obviously been misled by accounts of Hitler running rings around "the honest Strasser" in internal NSDAP debates about party policy.

, ... sry, but ... what 'Goeringites' do you speak of ?
There simply weren't any.
In late 1932, beginning 1933 Göring was nothing more than an appendix to Hitler. He didn't had any power base at all of his own within the party. He was nothing more than Hitlers 'link' to the 'better' circles of society by then, nothing more.
I am aware, but this speculation was predicated on the death of Hitler in 1932 to whom he would no longer be an appendix. In TTL, the right of the party, the mystics, the racialists, all those for whom the "N" was the most important letter in the "NSDAP"- Hess, von Ribbentrop, Himmler, Rosenberg etc. would have rallied around
someone as a candidate for the new party leader. Goebbels and Best (who would have been very young for the post at this point anyhow) would have supported Strasser so I considered Goering as a possible candidate for the right. No idea how Burkel or Kerrle would have jumped, are they likely alternatives? But the reason I picked on Goering was his public persona and reputation as a WWI air ace. Ribbentrop hadn't the brains and Himmler hadn't the charisma.
And I think you underrate Goering's importance at this point in that the NSDAP was virtually bankrupt. The unions may have liked Strassers policies but their donations still went to the SPD. Goering was the man who drummed up the cash donations from bankers and industrialists that kept them afloat.