WI: Hindenburg dies in 1930?

Hindenburg was President of Weimar Germany and inadvertedly helped the Nazis in their rise to power. What if he died in 1930? A new election would be called and who would win it?
 

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Hindenburg was President of Weimar Germany and inadvertedly helped the Nazis in their rise to power. What if he died in 1930? A new election would be called and who would win it?
Virtually a guarantee that Hitler never rises to power.
Apparently this is the guy that would have run and won:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Eckener
After these flights the public treated Eckener as a national hero.[5] During the early 1930s, Eckener was one of the most well-known and respected figures in Weimar Republic Germany. In the 1932 presidential election Eckener was a potential unity candidate against Adolf Hitler, encouraged to campaign by leaders of both the SPD and the Zentrum, but he bowed out when Paul von Hindenburg decided to run for a second term.[1][4][5][6] However, his potential candidacy had already angered the Nazi party.[8] In supposed anger and fear of Eckener, Hitler's de facto deputy, Hermann Esser, once called him the "director of the flying weisswurst (sausage)".[4]
 
Yeah I feel he would of been a good leader in Germany.

might set up a USA,UK,Germany vs USSR war in the late 40's ?
 
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