Who was re-elected President of the Republic of Germany in 1932 defeating Adolf Hitler?
1932 German presidential election 1932 German presidential election The 1932 German presidential elections were held on 13 March (first round) and 10 April (second round run-off). They were the second and final direct elections to the office of President of the Reich ("Reichspräsident"), Germany's head of state under the Weimar Republic. The incumbent President, Paul von Hindenburg, first elected in 1925, was re-elected to a second seven-year term of office. His major opponent in the election was Adolf Hitler of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). Under the Weimar system, the presidency was a powerful office. Hindenburg, who deeply distrusted and personally detested Hitler, had been
Historiography of Adolf Hitler Historiography of Adolf Hitler The Historiography of Adolf Hitler deals with the academic studies of Adolf Hitler from the 1930s to the present. In 1998, a German editor said there were 120,000 studies of Hitler and Nazi Germany. Since then a large number more have appeared, with many of them decisively shaping the historiography regarding Hitler. The first important biography was written in exile in Switzerland by Konrad Heiden, "Hitler: A Biography" (2 vol Zürich, 1936–1937); an English version appeared as "Der Führer – Hitler's Rise to Power" (1944). Heiden was a journalist for a liberal newspaper who witnessed Hitler's