Which party would you have voted for -German version

[Hans-im-Glück]

Vote for the party you think, that's my choice when i live in this time in Germany:
For me:

1919   USPD
1920   USPD
1924 (May)   KPD
1924 (December)   SPD
1928   SPD
1930   SPD
1932 (July)   SPD
1932 (November)  KPD
1933   KPD
1949   SPD
1953   SPD
1957   SPD
1961   SPD
1965   SPD
1969   SPD
1972   SPD
1976   SPD
1980   SPD
1983   SPD
1987   SPD*
1990   SPD*
1994   SPD*
1998   SPD*
2002   SPD*
2005   SPD* (I wanted to vote the Greens, but i hear a few day before the election a interview with Oswald Metzger and then i can't vote Green)
2009   Green

* this I'm really voted

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Practically SPD in every ocassion

[big bad fab]

Mmmm.... I should think a bit before answering (20s and 30s aren't simple !), but, to be honest, I think I would have voted something like that, with many strategic mistakes and without hindsight of course, as 1932 should be thought through the eyes of that time:

1919, 1920: Z

1924 (May, Dec) and 1928: DVP
(or Z, if DVP would have appeared too "industrial", not enough Stresemannian and too much on the right for me at that time, difficult to say)

1930: Z

1932 (July, Nov), 1933 (Mar): DDP, principled vote
(or SPD, tactical vote: it depends on my foreseeing NSDAP rise at that time)

1933 (Nov): invalid

1949 to 1965: CDU

1969: FDP (no to Kiesinger !)

1972 to 1998: CDU

2002: FDP
(or CDU, as I'm not sure of the exact proposals of FDP at that time...)

2005: CDU
(or FDP if I had been -mistakenly- convinced of a good CDU result)

2009: CDU
(or FDP if CDU doesn't fall too much in opinion polls)

[Antonio the Sixth]

SPD before 2005, then Greens or Die Linke as a protest vote.

[Hash]

1919: DDP
1920: DDP
1924 (May): DDP
1924 (Dec): DDP
1928: DDP
1930: Zentrum (I didn't like the DDP's re-incarnation as the DStP and merging with nats)
1932 (Jul): SPD
1932 (Nov): SPD
1933 (Mar): SPD
1933 (Nov): Flee
1949: CDU or FDP
1953: CDU or FDP
1957: CDU or FDP
1961: CDU
1965: SPD
1969: SPD
1972: SPD
1976: SPD
1980: SPD
1983: FDP
1987: Green
1990: FDP
1994: FDP
1998: Green
2002: Green
2006: FDP or Green or CDU
2009: Green or FDP or CDU

President:

1925: Willy Hellpach and Wilhelm Marx in runoff
1932: Could Ernst Thälmann be the least bad???!!!

[Hans-im-Glück]

For the President i would vote:

1925 Otto Braun, runoff Wilhelm Marx

1932 Ernst Thälmann, runoff Ernst Thälmann (maybe i vote tactical, for Hindenburg against Hitler) In this election was one candidate worse like the other

@ Hash

You would very unique in Germany. In the Weimar Republic there gives nearly no swing voter between DDP and Zentrum. The most of the DDP-voters in the early years 19-28 voted 30-33 NSDAP.
Also gives not many FDP-Green swing voters.

@ fab

i don't think that you 2002 vote for the FDP. In this year was the fun-campaign (Guidomobil) of Guido Westerwelle and the antisemitic campaign of Jürgen W. Möllemann.

[big bad fab]

@ fab

i don't think that you 2002 vote for the FDP. In this year was the fun-campaign (Guidomobil) of Guido Westerwelle and the antisemitic campaign of Jürgen W. Möllemann.

You're right: I would have "safely" voted CDU...
I've remembered vaguely there was a problem, but didn't know exactly what it was...

So, 2002 CDU !

And I may have voted more for DDP in the 1920s, but, as I've said, I must be honest: in that time, everyone was "intoxicated" at least a bit. And paramilitaries associations weren't only on the far-right... A weird time. So I may have voted for Z, even the "bad" one, and for DVP, just because of Stresemann.

Really, I should think more about it...
This topic is a very good idea, BTW.

[Hans-im-Glück]

@ fab

i don't think that you 2002 vote for the FDP. In this year was the fun-campaign (Guidomobil) of Guido Westerwelle and the antisemitic campaign of Jürgen W. Möllemann.

And I may have voted more for DDP in the 1920s, but, as I've said, I must be honest: in that time, everyone was "intoxicated" at least a bit. And paramilitaries associations weren't only on the far-right... A weird time. So I may have voted for Z, even the "bad" one, and for DVP, just because of Stresemann.^

After all things you write here i think the DDP is to left for you. You are a DVP-voter when you live in a protestant region or a Zentrum-Voter in a Catholic region. What you vote in the end of Weimar i don't know. Maybe you are so scared about the communists, that you vote DNVP or worse Maybe you are against both extremists, then you can only vote SPD (in the catholic part of Germany maybe Zentrum)

[Хahar 🤔]

Realistically, SPD in every election, except for maybe two USPD votes, and a Green/PDS vote here and there. Also, in the first round in 1932, I would vote for Thälmann in the first round (but Hindenburg in the second).

The most of the DDP-voters in the early years 19-28 voted 30-33 NSDAP.

Except for the Jews, of course. Did they vote SPD?

[big bad fab]

@ fab

i don't think that you 2002 vote for the FDP. In this year was the fun-campaign (Guidomobil) of Guido Westerwelle and the antisemitic campaign of Jürgen W. Möllemann.

And I may have voted more for DDP in the 1920s, but, as I've said, I must be honest: in that time, everyone was "intoxicated" at least a bit. And paramilitaries associations weren't only on the far-right... A weird time. So I may have voted for Z, even the "bad" one, and for DVP, just because of Stresemann.^

After all things you write here i think the DDP is to left for you. You are a DVP-voter when you live in a protestant region or a Zentrum-Voter in a Catholic region. What you vote in the end of Weimar i don't know. Maybe you are so scared about the communists, that you vote DNVP or worse Maybe you are against both extremists, then you can only vote SPD (in the catholic part of Germany maybe Zentrum)

You're right, I stick to my first post for the 1920s and for 1930.

But for 1932-33, well, Z wasn't entirely "clear"... SPD had already failed... DNVP was too close to the evil. And, NO, of course, I would not have voted for NSDAP: antisemitism, vulgarity, violence. No, even with all the propaganda, and whatever some forumers could think .
No, the problem would have been: which vote would have been more efficient to stop Hitler, apart from the KPD one.

You're right again, depending on my region, my religion, my social origins, I would have eventually voted Z or SPD, with big despair.
Or I would have already flown away...

It's really interesting to try to put oneself really in situation, without just being behind our keyboard, writing stupid or clever partisan things.
Thanks for this topic.

[Lief 🗽]

USPD in the first two elections, and then SPD until the 80s, and the Green until present.

[Person Man]

I wonder how Stark or SR would vote... hehe...

[Hans-im-Glück]

Realistically, SPD in every election, except for maybe two USPD votes, and a Green/PDS vote here and there. Also, in the first round in 1932, I would vote for Thälmann in the first round (but Hindenburg in the second).

The most of the DDP-voters in the early years 19-28 voted 30-33 NSDAP.

Except for the Jews, of course. Did they vote SPD?

Yes, the majority of the Jews voted in the end SPD, but some stay at the DDP (in the 30ies Deutsche Staatspartei) and many vote the KPD (but this were more disappointed SPD-Voters)

[Hans-im-Glück]

I wonder how Stark or SR would vote... hehe...

When they have a little bit courage they can post it

[Cassius Dio]

Imperial Parliament Elections

1871: German Centre Party
1874: German Centre Party
1877: German Centre Party
1878: German Centre Party
1881: German Centre Party
1884: German Centre Party
1887: German Centre Party
1890: German Centre Party
1893: German Centre Party
1898: German Centre Party
1903: German Centre Party
1907: German Centre Party
1912: German Centre Party

National Assembly Election

1919: German Centre Party

Weimar Republic Presidential elections

1925:
First round: Wilhelm Marx
Second round: Wilhelm Marx

1932:
First round: Paul von Hindenburg
Second round: Paul von Hindenburg

We do not have the written-in ....I would have voted for Otto Braun.

Weimar Republic Parliament Elections

1920: German Centre Party
1924 May: German Centre Party
1924 December: German Centre Party
1928: German Centre Party
1930: German Centre Party
1932 July: German Centre Party
1932 November: German Centre Party
1933: German Centre Party

West Germany Parliament Elections
1949: Christian Democratic Union
1953: Christian Democratic Union
1957: Christian Democratic Union
1961: Christian Democratic Union
1965: Christian Democratic Union
1969: Christian Democratic Union
1972: Christian Democratic Union
1976: Christian Democratic Union
1980: Christian Democratic Union
1983: Christian Democratic Union
1987: Christian Democratic Union

German Parliament Elections (after Reunification)

1990: Christian Democratic Union
1994: Christian Democratic Union
1998: Christian Democratic Union
2002: Christian Democratic Union
2005: Christian Democratic Union




Yes, I votes in every election until 1933 for a Catholic Party, and in every election after that for a Christian democratic Party.

[Hans-im-Glück]

1932:
First round: Paul von Hindenburg
Second round: Paul von Hindenburg

We do not have the written-in ....I would have voted for Otto Braun.

Why do you want to vote for the SPD politician Otto Braun. Gives no man from the Zentrum you more prefer and when the politicians are so bad, why will you vote for them in the election for the Reichstag?