NSDAP in the Prussian state parliament for the first time

On 7 December 1924, new elections to the Berlin Reichstag take place. The centrist parties and the SPD are able to post electoral gains, which can be attributed to a notable improvement of the economic situation – inter alia introduction of the „Rentenmark“ as part of a currency reform. However, the governing bourgeois parties do not have an actual majority in the new parliament.

© VG Bild-Kunst Karl Arnold:  Hail Prussia, Simplicissimus 1932

That same day the state legislature is elected in Prussia. The governing parties of the Grand Coalition (SPD, DDP, DVP, and Centre) under premier Otto Braun (SPD) receive 267 of 450 seats and therefore are able to increase their previously stable majority. Nevertheless, Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers’ Party succeeds in getting into the Prussian parliament for the first time: With this beginning the National Socialists are able to secure 120 seats.