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13 - From Defeat to Crisis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2020

Larry Eugene Jones
Affiliation:
Canisius College, New York
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Chapter 13 examines the period from the campaign for the May 1928 Reichstag elections to Alfred Hugenberg’s election as DNVP party chairman in October 1928. The DNVP went down to stunning defeat in the May elections that stemmed in large part from the success of middle-class and agrarian splinter parties to cannibalize the Nationalist electorate. The defeat was followed by a bitter internal crisis in which Westarp found himself such heavy attack from Hugenberg that he resigned his seat as DNVP party chairman. This was followed by a bitter fight for the DNVP party chairmanship that found Hugenberg’s opponents so badly organized that they were unable to block his election as Westarp’s successor in October 1928. Hugenberg’s election to the DNVP chairmanship represented a critical turning point in the history of the Weimar Republic and signaled the complete collapse of Stresemann’s efforts to stabilize Germany’s republican system of government from the Right.

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The German Right, 1918–1930
Political Parties, Organized Interests, and Patriotic Associations in the Struggle against Weimar Democracy
, pp. 394 - 431
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • From Defeat to Crisis
  • Larry Eugene Jones, Canisius College, New York
  • Book: The German Right, 1918–1930
  • Online publication: 21 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108643450.014
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  • From Defeat to Crisis
  • Larry Eugene Jones, Canisius College, New York
  • Book: The German Right, 1918–1930
  • Online publication: 21 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108643450.014
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  • From Defeat to Crisis
  • Larry Eugene Jones, Canisius College, New York
  • Book: The German Right, 1918–1930
  • Online publication: 21 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108643450.014
Available formats
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