Germany between 1929 and 1934: These were tumultuous times!
October 1929: Beginning of the world economic crisis
March 1930: The Grand Coalition breaks up, beginning of the Brüning government
September 14, 1930:
Reichstag election, NSDAP becomes second strongest party, continuation of the Brüning government (until May 1932)
June 1, 1932: Presidential Cabinet under Chancellor von Papen
July 20, 1932: Prussia strike
July 31, 1932:
Reichstag election, strengthening of the radical parties, NSDAP strongest force in the party spectrum
September 12, 1932: Vote of no confidence against the Papen government, dissolution of the Reichstag
November 6, 1932: Reichstag election, Papen resigns
2 December 1932: Kurt von Schleicher becomes new chancellor (resignation January 28, 1933)
January 30, 1933: Adolf Hitler becomes Reich Chancellor
February 1, 1933: Dissolution of the Reichstag by Reich President von Hindenburg
February 4, 1933:
Ordinance of the Reich President for the Protection of the German People: Restriction of the Freedom of the Press and of the Assembly
February 22, 1933: 50,000 SS / SA members are appointed armed "auxiliary police officers".
February 27, 1933: Reichstag fire
February 28, 1933:
Ordinance of the Reich President on the Protection of the People and the State (Reichstag Fire Ordinance), repeals essential fundamental rights, the basis for the persecution of political opponents
5 March 1933: New elections: narrow majority for NSDAP and DNVP
NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party aka NAZI party) DNVP (German National People's Party): After 1929 the DNVP co-operated with the Nazis, joining forces in the Harzburg Front of 1931, forming coalition governments in some states and finally supporting Hitler's appointment as Chancellor (Reichskanzler) in January 1933. Initially, the DNVP had a number of ministers in Hitler's government but quickly lost influence
March 21, 1933: Day of Potsdam
March 23, 1933: Enabling Act
March 31, 1933: Law for the "Gleichschaltung" (synchronisation) of the federal states with the Reich
April 1, 1933: First trade union house occupied, boycott against Jewish businesses
April 7, 1933: Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
May 2, 1933:
Breaking up the unions: union houses occupied, confiscated assets of the trade unions, leading officials put into "protective custody"
14 July 1933:
Law against the reformation of parties, all other parties had dissolved themselves up to this time or had been forbidden
November 12, 1933: Reichstag election (sham election)
January 20, 1934: Law on the Order of National Labor
January 30, 1934: Law on the rebuilding of the empire ("Reich")
August 1934:
After the death of Hindenburg: union of the offices of the Reich President and the Reich Chancellor in the person of Adolf Hitler