Sunday, March 21, 2021

How Many Parties Held Seats in the German Bundestag After the July 1932 Election?

 Well....fourtteen.  I know....it's a hefty number if you think about it.  At the time, you had 602 members of the Bundestag.

The Nazi Party did clear around 230 of the seats, with the SPD Party getting 133 seats.

At the time, this five-percent minimum rule was not in effect.  

So you had 9 parties that cleared 4.9-percent or less....that got seats in the Bundestag.  

There's this one fascinating detail often left out of the July 1932 situation....no one from the 15 other parties found any willing nature to partner-up with the Nazi Party....so the coalition could NOT be formed, and this guaranteed another election by November of the same year.

The most unknown party out of this group....with just one single seat?  The Reich Party for Civil Rights and Deflation.  This is mostly a political party (getting 41k votes nationally) that is concerned with Germans who save money (in terms of depositing it into banks).  If you looked at their statements....they were for mostly bulking up and helping the middle-class society grow...thus avoiding inflation. 


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