Nazis in coalition government in 1930

Yesterday I read a local news magazine here in Germany dealing with the problems of the SPD concerning the Left Party. The author wrote that they should indeed coalite with them even in the former West. He reminded that in Austria, FPÖ used to climb further and further with every election in the 1990s since Haider chaired over that party in 1986. Then, in 1999/2000, Wolfgang Schüssel from the ÖVP did the only reasonable thing, coaliting with the far-right populists under the conditions the conservative ÖVP is to make the chancellor. In 2002, premature elections were held after a cabinet crisis and the FPÖ from about 35 to mere 10 per cent and the ÖVP gained to 40 per cent.

True, maybe that's what von Paper and Schleicher used to think as well when engaging Hitler. But it failed miserably. Worse, they accepted a Nazi chancellorship. But of course, conditions in 1932 weren't as easy as in modern Austria. To have them that easy, you would need a Center party at 25 per cent at least. And anti-republicanism was very hostile in the early 1930s.


1930 there might have been a theoretic chance to do aforemention acrobatics. The NSDAP got 18 per cent, not near a majority though notable.

So what if e. g. some guy came up with a let's say Centre-DVP-DNVP-NSDAP coalition? And succeeded? What's happens next, especially in governing and the next elections?
 
In 1931 and 1932 Gregor Strasser, at that time Reichsorganisationsleiter (the equivalent to a secretary-general) of the NSDAP, was in favour of a coalition government between the Nazi party and the Catholic Zentrum, at that time led by Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, who at that time ruled through presidential decree.

The first coalition was supposed to be formed in Hessen and would later be adopted in other Reichsländer, such as in Prussia, and then in the Reich proper.

The arrangement failed mainly for two reasons:

a) the Boxheim scandal, which revolved around Dr Werner Best, at that time a leading member of the Nazi party parliamentary group in the state assembly of Hessen, who had penned a series of documents dealing with measures to be implemented after a hypothetical Nazi counter-coup against a putsch by the communists and leftist trade unions. It was quite a scandal as it gave the appearance that the Nazi party and the SA were abandoning their strategy of attaining power "legally" (indeed many SA leaders such as Stennes yearned for a march on Berlin, if only because they wanted to gain privileges faster and feared the party bureaucrats were selling them out).
b) Hitler was fundamentally opposed to a coalition that did not grant him the chancellery and key posts to his supporters. At that time he also feared that entering into such an arrangement would have imposed limits on his and the party's actions and bound him to a series of rules. He was supported in his opposition by Goebbels, who by then had become a fierce enemy of Strasser. That Strasser, who as Reichsorganisationsleiter was quite powerful, controlling the party organisation and having appointed most of the gauleiters in Northern Germany (Erich Koch, gauleiter of East Prussia, for instance, was a Strasserite until 1934), was in favour of entering into an alliance with first Brüning and then, after the losses of the Nazi party in the November 1932 Reichstag elections, with von Schleicher, only strengthened Hitler's opposition.
Strasser had, after all, good relations with both Brüning and General von Schleicher, who historically offered to make him Prime Minister of Prussia and a Reichs Minister, in the hope of splitting the NSDAP and enticing the "realistic" elements to support his plan for a broad alliance as a basis for a military autocracy.

Thus the talks of a coalition ended in failure, especially after Strasser resigned at the end of 1932 from all posts in the party and, to the surprise of both his enemies (Goebbels, Göring, Röhm) and his allies (his brother Otto Strasser, Brüning, von Schleicher, Koch) did not form his own party list or try to rally his allies around him, but instead completely retired from public life.
 
would Hitler go for though? IIRC he said something like "I woun't be part of government where I'm not in charge"
 
would Hitler go for though? IIRC he said something like "I woun't be part of government where I'm not in charge"

When did Gelli kill herself ? If this had been blow up into a major crisis threatening future votes then they might have gambled on what they already had

Problem is I dont think it quite fits the timeline, would need to check

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
Could this be the salvation of Germany?

"Okay, well the Nazis have proceeded to trash the economy. What now?"

The cynic in me says they immediately become Communist, but who knows?
 
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