http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Erwin_von_Scheubner-Richter
Now I know what you're thinking, WHO THE HELL IS SCHEUBNER-RICHTER? Well he was an early member of the Nazi Party and close confidant of Hitler, as well as mentor to Rosenberg. Scheubner-Richter was also one of the main planners of the coup and influenced Hitler ideologically. Hitler considered him to be the "only irreplaceable loss" of the failed coup. Now Scheubner-Richter was also a Baltic German who had plans to overthrow the Soviet government and establish a totalitarian dictatorship that would be an ally to Hitler's totalitarian Germany and use the two to avenge Versailles and impose German dominance on the continent. Now the POD may have to be before the actual putsch, as Scheubner-Richter took a bullet in the lungs walking arm in arm with Hitler, and pulled the future Fuhrer down with him. Considering who the bullet would have likely hit next is a topic of interest certainly, but as I have my timeline at this point, I'd like to keep a monopoly on that POD for as long as possible.
So a better POD would be Scheubner-Richter simply being non-mortally wounded and having him continue to advise the Nazi's on ideological topics. The problem Im having, is that Haushofer had already converted Hitler to his policy of Lebensraum, and that the two may conflict, but I believe that if Scheubner-Richter had survived he may have been able to ease relations between Russia and Germany, making one hell of a foreign minister. Either way, just some food for thought. Hopefully this just doesn't sink to the bottom of the page. I hear frequent gripes about the lack of diversity in the POD's of Post-1900 history, and this is one I've never heard.
Now I know what you're thinking, WHO THE HELL IS SCHEUBNER-RICHTER? Well he was an early member of the Nazi Party and close confidant of Hitler, as well as mentor to Rosenberg. Scheubner-Richter was also one of the main planners of the coup and influenced Hitler ideologically. Hitler considered him to be the "only irreplaceable loss" of the failed coup. Now Scheubner-Richter was also a Baltic German who had plans to overthrow the Soviet government and establish a totalitarian dictatorship that would be an ally to Hitler's totalitarian Germany and use the two to avenge Versailles and impose German dominance on the continent. Now the POD may have to be before the actual putsch, as Scheubner-Richter took a bullet in the lungs walking arm in arm with Hitler, and pulled the future Fuhrer down with him. Considering who the bullet would have likely hit next is a topic of interest certainly, but as I have my timeline at this point, I'd like to keep a monopoly on that POD for as long as possible.
So a better POD would be Scheubner-Richter simply being non-mortally wounded and having him continue to advise the Nazi's on ideological topics. The problem Im having, is that Haushofer had already converted Hitler to his policy of Lebensraum, and that the two may conflict, but I believe that if Scheubner-Richter had survived he may have been able to ease relations between Russia and Germany, making one hell of a foreign minister. Either way, just some food for thought. Hopefully this just doesn't sink to the bottom of the page. I hear frequent gripes about the lack of diversity in the POD's of Post-1900 history, and this is one I've never heard.