Editing Weimar Republic (section)

==== Unstable political system ====
After Reich President Ebert died at the beginning of 1925 at the age of 54, the candidate of the parties that supported the Republic, [[Wilhelm Marx]] of the Centre Party, was defeated in the second round of the [[1925 German presidential election|1925 Reich presidential election]] by the candidate of the nationalist right, [[Paul von Hindenburg]], 48.3% to 45.3%. Despite the fact that Hindenburg had declared in advance that he intended to hold office in accordance with the Weimar Constitution,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Conze |first=Werner |date=1972 |title=Hindenburg, Paul von |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118551264.html#ndbcontent |access-date=25 May 2023 |website=Neue Deutsche Biographie |pages=178–182 |language=de |edition=9}}</ref> his electoral success showed how far the country had shifted to the right since Weimar's beginnings with a socialist president.

The Reichstag elections in [[May 1924 German federal election|May 1924]] and [[December 1924 German federal election|December 1924]] were once again failures for the [[Weimar Coalition]] (SDP, DDP and Centre), which had started so comfortably in 1919 and which maintained its position as a "bulwark of democracy" only in Prussia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The End of the Weimar Republic |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Weimar-Republic/The-end-of-the-Weimar-Republic |access-date=21 May 2023 |website=Britannica}}</ref> In the May election, the Coalition partners lost a total of 13 seats, while the right wing DNVP and left wing KPD picked up 82 seats. After the SPD left [[Gustav Stresemann]]'s cabinet in November 1923 in protest of the Reich executions against Saxony and Thuringia, it did not take part in a government again until June 1928. From 1924 to 1928, there were three chancellors: [[Wilhelm Marx]] of the Centre party (twice), the non-partisan [[Hans Luther]] and [[Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876)|Hermann Müller]] of the SPD. Altogether there were seven cabinets under the three men.