Possible Alternate Furher(s)

Since it is generally agreed that even without Hitler some authoritative right-wing figure will take power in Germany and a war may start, if not WWII.

But the question is: Who would be the most likely to assume command? What are some alternate Fuhrers that can come to power assuming that Hitler dies in WWI or dies in The Putch either because he got shot by police and the army or he gets executed or never enters politics and became a architect or artist? But how far would they take the war? Would it escalate into a WWII? Would there be war vs Soviets? Would there be an Anschluss?

NOTE: The alternate Fuhrer doesn't have to rule as full dictator, he can restore the Kaiser as a figurehead that can be deposed on a whim while he has the real power as prime minister or reagent to the Monarchy.
 
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Since it is generally agreed that even without Hitler some authoritative right-wing figure will take power in Germany and a war may start, if not WWII.

No it isn't.

It is perfectly possible to have democracy take root and survive in Germany. A Communist Germany is also possible if the Communists manage to gain support faster than the right-wingers, rather than the other way around as happened OTL.
 
No it isn't.

It is perfectly possible to have democracy take root and survive in Germany. A Communist Germany is also possible if the Communists manage to gain support faster than the right-wingers, rather than the other way around as happened OTL.

Germany in the late 20's and early 30's was not so much growing towards a democracy as some might think. The general feeling was that the victors of the Great War laid up the Democracy against the "free will" of the German People. This was one of the reasons why the Center, or more democratic orientated parties in those years was small, compared to the extreme left or right. Anti Democratic Parties on both extreme left, or right had a generally larger support than the democratic center, which also was badly fragmented at the same time.

In the entire period between the Versailles Treaty and the rise of the NSDAP, there had been several attempts by anti-democratic factions to throw away the newly formed Democracy and replace it by some sort of dictatorship, either left, or right. Also of importance was the function of the Reichs Präsident, who in the Weimar Republic had more autority than in the post WW2 period BRD. Germans tended to wish a strong leadership still, which is why famous warhero Fieldmarshall Paul von Hindenburg was elected as president succeding the deceased first president Friedrich Ebert in 1925. Hindenburg was not particuary known to cherish democracy, being an old Pruisian Army Officer, educated in the old Junkers epic of the 19th century. In fact his election as president was a reflection of the wish to have a supplement for a lost Monarch.
 
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