11) The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor

• When was Hitler appointed Chancellor?

  30th January 1933
• Bruning's priority


  reduce state expenditure by cutting welfare benefits, wages and the number of civil servants (Hunger chancellor)
• What did Bruning's policies lead to?

  unemployment exceeding 6 million
• Bruning and the SA


  banned in April 1932 which Schleicher was concerned would provoke a Nazi uprising
• Nazi response to Bruning


  Hitler refused to be in a coalition not as chancellor, but he didn't oppose a new gov on the condition that the SA ban be lifted which led to Bruning resigning
• When did Papen lift ban on SA?


  June 1932
• how did Papen rule?


  By decree using article 48 because he had limited support
• July 1932 election results


  Nazis = 230 seats
• vote of no confidence in Papen's party

  512 votes to 42 votes. forced Papen to resign. Forced a new election where Nazis lost 2 million votes because they supported a communist-led transport strike in Berlin which lost middle class voters.
• Schleicher's attempt at a coalition with Hitler


  used divisions within the Nazi party

  Schleicher opened negotiations with Strasser about joining his coalition so Hitler purged him in 1932
• Schleicher's policies


  cancelled the cuts in wages and benefits made by Papen, considered a large-scale job creation scheme to reduce unemployment and talked about distributing land to farmers - failed to attract unionist support
• Why did Schleicher resign?


  He had no support in the Reichstag and Papen was telling him what to do. He asked Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag and give him dictatorial power but he refused and Schleicher resigned.