Could the DNVP take power in Germany?

[Torten]

Thing is, Bruning completely relied on Hindenburg to pass his laws because he did not have the support of the democratically elected Reichstag, and Hindenburg relied on Article 48 to do that, which allowed him to circumvent the Reichstag. Democracy died in Weimar Republic when Hermann Muller resigned as Chancellor.

There was still a veneer of Democracy, if only on the grounds that Bruning had a degree of support from the Reichstag, and they were still holding Democratic elections to the Reichstag

 

[Venocara]

Hindenburg is still going to die and, like Hitler in our timeline, Bruning will get credit for the economic recovery. Thus, democracy will be restored.

Bruning could not have lasted until 1934; the reasons that he resigned in 1932 will still arise even without the NSDAP. In any case, his policies were nothing like the NSDAP's, and unfortunately they only made the Great Depression in Germany worse. To add to this, Bruning was ambivalent towards the idea of democracy anyway - he naturally leaned towards authoritarianism.

There was still a veneer of Democracy, if only on the grounds that Bruning had a degree of support from the Reichstag, and they were still holding Democratic elections to the Reichstag

Bruning had very little support from the Reichstag when he first took office, his economic budget was almost immediately rejected by the Reichstag and when an election was called to try and resolve this issue he was left with almost no support at all. After 1930, laws in Germany could not be passed without Hindenburg, which basically rendered the democratically elected Reichstag irrelevant.

The simple fact of the matter is that after 1930 Weimar democracy is finished no matter what you do, and it is almost impossible to revive after this time without some serious constitutional changes.

 

[Ricardolindo]

Bruning could not have lasted until 1934; the reasons that he resigned in 1932 will still arise even without the NSDAP. In any case, his policies were nothing like the NSDAP's, and unfortunately they only made the Great Depression in Germany worse. To add to this, Bruning was ambivalent towards the idea of democracy anyway - he naturally leaned towards authoritarianism.



Bruning had very little support from the Reichstag when he first took office, his economic budget was almost immediately rejected by the Reichstag and when an election was called to try and resolve this issue he was left with almost no support at all. After 1930, laws in Germany could not be passed without Hindenburg, which basically rendered the democratically elected Reichstag irrelevant.

The simple fact of the matter is that after 1930 Weimar democracy is finished no matter what you do, and it is almost impossible to revive after this time without some serious constitutional changes.

Thing is, an economic recovery was inevitable. It happened all over the world.

 

[Octosteel]

I also recall Bruning had a plan to restore the monarchy and even got SDs to agree to it (obviously a very constitutional one), but it was actually Hindenburg who was against it since it would crown the Crown Prince and not the idiot that lost the war. Perhaps if Hindenburg agreed then Bruning could have stayed one. Or maybe easier is have Schleicher keep holding everything together. I recall he intended to get the Strasser brothers to leave the NSDAP and join him. There's lots of fun things to change what happened in Weimar but I imagine democracy itself is pretty much dead at least for about a decade. It could end up like Spain I suppose once the dictatorship runs out of steam and support (which is happened to Primo's dictatorship).