In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Nazi Party (NSDAP) had variable fortunes in Föckelberg. In the 1928 Reichstag elections, 37.1% of the local votes went to Adolf Hitler’s party (as against the national average of 2.6%) while only 1.8% went to the Communists (as against the national average of 10.6%). By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had shrunk to 23.0% while the Communists’ share of the vote had risen greatly to 22.1%. The Nazis nevertheless prevailed in the end, and Hitler's success in these elections paved the way for his Enabling Act of 1933 ("Ermächtigungsgesetz"), thus starting the Third Reich in earnest. Among other things, Hitler banned the Communist Party of Germany.