30 mai 1932 - Brüning Resigns

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Brüning was an incredibly unpopular Chancellor, primarily due to his economic changes of raising taxes and reducing unemployment pay which - contrary to necessity - only worsened the depression.
Due to the hostile majority in the Reichstag which opposed him (led by the social democrats) he was only able to implement his policies using article 48 to establish them under presidential decree and this had caused the Reischtag election of 1930. after he was challenged and defeated in the Reichstag.
Since then he had enough support from the SPD to defeat extremist motions of no confidence and impose laws by presidential decree and one of his last acts as Chancellor was to ban the SA.

Since the 1930 election, the SA and Nazis had been incredibly active with rallies and posters. The SA regularly clashed with the Reichsbanner and communist forces and bomb plots and street fights became common and a sign of an unstable government.

Another Centre politician Van Papen was appointed Brüning's successor but due to a lack of support he was forced to overturn the SA ban and Hindenburg was forced to call an election.

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