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Okay, I'm reading Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman [1] right now, and th author has a bit of a counterfactual about his survival.

First, He might have been no more successful in keeping the DVP in the grand coalition., but he might have remained foreig minister in teh Bruning government. This would have been significant, since he would have focused on maintaining Franco-German cooperation, which might have made a significant difference.

France made a number of proposals, from having joint companies exploit the Saar for plans to have German firms participate in major construction projects in France, to short and logn term loans.

Instead, the German foreign minister of OTL spurned French officers, and instead proceeded with plans for an Austro-German customs union. France got, ah, annoyed, and ended its officers; precipiating the banking crises in Austria and Germany in 1931. So no banking crises and Franco-German cooperation in the Saar.

However, Stresemann would hae had trouble maintaining his base. The DVP joined the Brunnig government, but the party continued to hemorrhage votes; by 1930 the NSDAP won more votes in the Saxon Landtag than the DVP, and in the 1931 elections the DVP share of the vote fell dramatically to 4.5 percent.

Yet Stresemann would have been powerless to prevent the dismissal of Bruning in 1932, or the intrigus which led to the appointment of Hitler as chancellor in January.

However, before his deathk, Stressemann toyed with running for the elections for Reich Presidency in April 1932. Could he have won, if he did so? Would he have? Or would it have led to Hitler winning?

[1] Can you guess how he feels about him?
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