January 30th 1933 marked the beginning of the end of the Weimar Republic, as Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.
On January 30, 1933,Adolf Hitlerwas appointed as the chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg. Hindenburg made the appointment in an effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party “in check;” however, the decision would have disastrous results for Germany and the entire European contin...
On January 30, 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or führer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. The year 1932 had seen Hitler’s meteoric rise to prominence in Germany, spurred largely by the German people’s...
Kurt von Schleicher (1882-1934) was the last man to be German Chancellor during the Weimar Republic, the era before the rise to the Chancellorship of Adolf Hitler. As one of Germany’s most prominent generals in the years after World War I, he exercised considerable power. After the Nazis...
Most biographies concentrate on Schmidt's legacy for Germany; on what to make of his early commitment to the Hitler Youth and the eight years of service in the Wehrmacht for his realist outlook on world politics; on how to think about way Schmidt addressed the global economic......
BERLIN (AP) — Helmut Kohl, one of the towering figures of European politics whose greatest achievement is considered the skillful reunification of a divided Germany, has died at 87. Kohl, who was chancellor first of West Germany and then of a united Germany from 1982 to 1998, combined a ...
He promised to make Germany a better country and promised the disenchanted, a better life. Nazis appealed especially to the youth, unemployed, and members of the lower to middle class. Hitler’s rise to power seemed instantaneous. Before the economic depression, Nazis were virtually unknown, ...
Olaf Scholz is a German politician who became chancellor of Germany in 2021. A longtime member of Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), Scholz served as finance minister and vice chancellor (2018–21) in the ‘grand coalition’ government
Kurt Georg Kiesinger was a conservative politician and chancellor (1966–69) of the Federal Republic of Germany whose “grand coalition” brought the Social Democratic Party (SPD) into the government for the first time since 1930. Kiesinger was educated
Gustav Stresemann was the chancellor (1923) and foreign minister (1923, 1924–29) of the Weimar Republic, largely responsible for restoring Germany’s international status after World War I. With French foreign minister Aristide Briand, he was awarded th