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| 0919 | Election
Henry I the Fowler |  |
| | German nobles elect Henry King of Germany |
| 1138 | Election
Conrad III | |
| | Elected to succeed Lothair II |
| 1237 | Election
Conrad IV | |
| | Elected King of Germany in place of his half brother Henry VII |
| 1314 | Election
Louis IV of Bavaria | |
| Oct 20th | The Electors just favour Louis IV over Frederick III |
| 1779 | Election
Charles Theodore | |
| | Recognized as Palatinate by Charles Zweibrucked after the War of Bavarian Succession |
| 1847 | Election
Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Furst von | |
| | Bismarck is elected to the Vereinigter Landtag |
| 1848 | Election
Charles Anthony | |
| | Presides over new elections to the Diet, results in a liberal victory |
| 1848 | Election
Vincke | |
| | Vincke's moderates a landslide election victory to the Diet with 210 seats |
| 1849 | Election
Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Furst von | |
| | Elected Member of the Erfurt Parliament, a Prussian representitive |
| | Bismarck is elected to the Landtag |
| | A liberal coalition led by the Progressive Party, Fortschrittspartei, wins 2/3 of the votes to the House of Deputies |
| | Bismarck retains power because he had the support of Wilhelm who fears a liberal ministry |
| Oct | Bismarck's supporters do poorly in the elections in which a liberal coalition (whose primary member was the Progress Party) win over two-thirds of the seats in the House |
| Oct | The House makes repeated calls to the King to dismiss Bismarck, but the King supports him as he feared that if he dismissed him, a liberal ministry would follow |
| | In the elections to the House of Deputies the liberals suffer a major defeat, losing their large majority |
| | The new, largely conservative House is on much better terms with Bismarck than previous bodies; at the Minister-President's request, it retroactively approved the budgets of the past four years, which had been implemented without parliamentary conse |
| | Conservative victory in the chamber of 142 |
| | Has a sufficient majority to raise an army reform budget for the 1st time in 5 yrs |
| | The election is held during the Battle of Konigratz |
| | The Centre Party win 57 seats, their new popularity shocks Bismarck into action |
| 1870 | Election
Windhorst, Ludwig | |
| | The Catholic based Centre Party wins 53 seats |
| | The Catholic based Centre Party wins 57 seats |
| 1874 | Election
Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Furst von | |
| | Bismarck's attempts to restrict the power of the Catholic Church, represented in politics by the Catholic Centre Party, were not successful, in the 1874 elections, these forces double their representation in the parliament |
| Jan 23rd | Catholics rally around the Centre Party which increases its vote from 63 to 91 seats |
| Jan 23rd | The Catholic Centre increases its seats because of hatred of the May Laws |
| | The Free Conservatives & National Liberals win 220 out of 375 seats |
| Feb 20th | The cartell led by Bismarck loses 57 National Liberal & 28 Conservative seats |
| May 2nd | Returned for Geestmunde with a large majority |
| 1903 | Election
Bulow, Bernhard Heinrich Martin | |
| | The Centre Party holds the balance of power |
| | The Tariff Law increased food prices & the Social Democrats gain 25 seats |
| 1906 | Election
Stressman, Gustav | |
| | First enters the Reichstag as a National Liberal |
| 1907 | Election
Bulow, Bernhard Heinrich Martin | |
| | The parties of the Bulow Bloc win 216 seats |
| | Wins a working majority without dependence on the Centre Party |
| 1907 | Election
Stressman, Gustav | |
| | Elected Member of the Reichstag |
| 1912 | Election
Ebert, Friedrich | |
| | Elected Member of the Reichstag |
| 1912 | Election
Stressman, Gustav | |
| | Streseman loses his seat |
| 1912 | Election
Theobald, Bethmann Hollweg von | |
| | The main benificiaries are the Socialists who now have 110 Deputies |
| 1914 | Election
Stressman, Gustav | |
| | Elected Member of the Reichstag |
| 1919 | Election
Ebert, Friedrich | |
| Jan 19th | Elections are held for the National Constitutional Assembly |
| Jan 19th | The National Assembly elections took place, the radical left-wing parties, including the USPD and KPD, are barely able to get themselves organized, leading to a solid majority of seats for the MSPD moderate forces |
| Jan 19th | The Socialist and (Non-Socialist) Democratic parties obtained a solid 80 per cent of the vote |
| 1924 | Election
Feder, Gottfried | |
| | Elected to the Reichstag |
| 1925 | Election
Braun, Otto | |
| | Wins 8 million votes |
| 1925 | Election
Marx, Wihelm | |
| | Stands as President but defeated by Hindenburg |
| | Wins 13.7 million votes to Hindenburg's 14.6 million |
| | Stands as President but defeated by Hindenburg |
| | Wins 13.7 million votes to Hindenburg's 14.6 million |
| 1925 | Election
Thalman, Ernst | |
| | Stands as President but is defeated by Hindenburg, wins 1.9 million votes |
| 1925 | Election
Hitler, Adolf | |
| Mar 29th | Persuades Ludendorf to stand as President of the Weimar Republic |
| 1925 | Election
Ludendorf, Erich von | |
| Mar 29th | Persuaded by Hitler to stand as President, wins only 211,000 of 27,000,000 votes cast |
| 1928 | Election
Epp, Franz Ritter von | |
| | Epp becomes a member of the German parliament, the Reichstag, for the NSDAP after leaving the BVP |
| 1928 | Election
Ley, Robert | |
| | Elected to the Prussian Landtag |
| 1928 | Election
Hitler, Adolf | |
| May 20th | The Nazi Party polls 810,000 votes out of 31 million cast, 2.5% |
| May 20th | The Nazi party wins 12 of the 491 Reichstag seats |
| 1928 | Election
Marx, Wihelm | |
| May 20th | The SDP win 153 seats, short of a majority |
| May 20th | The SDP win 153 seats, short of a majority |
| 1930 | Election
Ley, Robert | |
| | Elected to the Reichstag |
| 1930 | Election
Bruening, Heinrich | |
| Sep 14th | After the election Br?ning attempts to reform the devastated state without a majority in Parliament, governing with the help of the President's emergency decrees |
| 1930 | Election
Hitler, Adolf | |
| Sep 14th | 6.4 million votes, 18%, 107 of 577 seats in the Reichstag go to the Nazi Party |
| Sep 14th | The increased representation of the NSDAP has devastating consequences for the Republic, there was no longer a moderate majority in the Reichstag even for a Great Coalition of moderate parties, and this encourages the supporters of the Nazis |
| Sep 14th | The Nazi party becomes the 2nd largest party |
| Sep 14th | The Reichstag general elections result in an enormous political shift, 18.3% of the vote goes to the Nazis, five times the percentage compared to 1928 |
| Sep 15th | Hitler is denied a seat because he is Austrian, not German |
| 1932 | Election
Goebbels, Paul Joseph | |
| | Organizes Hitler's campaigns for the Presidency & for Nazi seats in the Reichstag |
| 1932 | Election
Hitler, Adolf | |
| | Cannot win a majority & demands to be Chancellor of a Presidential Government |
| 1932 | Election
Th„lmann, Ernst | |
| | In the presidential elections Th„lmann takes 13.2% of the vote, compared to Hitler's 30.1% |
| | The "social fascism" policy scuttles any possibility of a united front with the SPD against the rising power of the Nazis |
| 1932 | Election
Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig Hans von | |
| Mar 13th | Wins 49.6% to Hitler's 30.1% of votes during the 1st round of the elections |
| 1932 | Election
Hitler, Adolf | |
| Mar 13th | Hindenburg is just 0.4% short of a majority |
| Mar 13th | Hindenburg wins 1st round of Presidential election with 18.65 million votes |
| 1932 | Election
Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig Hans von | |
| April 10th | 2nd round presidential elections, wins 53% to Hitler's 36.8% |
| 1932 | Election
Hitler, Adolf | |
| April 10th | Presidential elections, 2nd round |
| April 10th | Wins 13.42 million votes, Hindenburg wins 19.36 million votes |
| 1932 | Election
Papen, Franz von | |
| July | Since most parties opposed the new Government, von Papen had the Reichstag dissolved and calls for new elections |
| 1932 | Election
Hitler, Adolf | |
| July 31st | The general elections yield major gains for the KPD and the Nazis, who win 37.2% of the vote, supplanting the Social Democrats as the largest party in the Reichstag |
| July 31st | The height of Nazi electoral success under free elections |
| July 31st | The Nazis win 230 of 608 seats in the Reichstag & double their strength |
| 1932 | Election
Papen, Franz von | |
| July 31st | Supports Hindenburg during the Presidential elections rather than his own party |
| July 31st | The general elections yield major gains for the KPD and the Nazis, who win 37.2% of the vote, supplanting the Social Democrats as the largest party in the Reichstag |
| 1932 | Election
Hitler, Adolf | |
| Aug 13th | Hitler refuses a ministry under Papen, and demands the chancellorship for himself, but is rejected by Hindenburg |
| Aug 13th | There is still no majority in the Reichstag for any Government, as a result, the Reichstag is dissolved and elections take place once more in the hope that a stable majority would result |
| 1932 | Election
Th„lmann, Ernst | |
| Nov | The KPD wins 100 deputies |
| 1932 | Election
Hitler, Adolf | |
| Nov 6th | Elections are held in which the NSDAP vote falls from 230 to 196 seats |
| Nov 6th | Elections yield 33.1% for the Nazis, dropping 2 million voters, Franz von Papen steps down, and is succeeded by General Kurt von Schleicher as Reichskanzler |
| Nov 6th | Refuses to join a coalition |
| 1932 | Election
Papen, Franz von | |
| Nov 6th | Elections yield 33.1% for the Nazis, dropping 2 million voters, Franz von Papen steps down, and is succeeded by General Kurt von Schleicher as Reichskanzler |
| Nov 6th | Unable to win a majority in the Reichstag |
| 1932 | Election
Schleicher, Kurt von | |
| Nov 6th | Elections yield 33.1% for the Nazis, dropping 2 million voters, Franz von Papen steps down, and is succeeded by General Kurt von Schleicher as Reichskanzler |
| 1932 | Election
Hitler, Adolf | |
| Dec 3rd | The Nazis lose 40% of their vote, it looks as though they cannot be voted into power |
| 1933 | Election
Schleicher, Kurt von | |
| | The Nazis win Lippe & create a crisis in the Schleicher Government |
| | The Nazis win Lippe & create a crisis in the Schleicher Government |
| 1933 | Election
Hitler, Adolf | |
| Jan 22nd | Gains the support of Oscar von Hindenburg who agrees to appoint Hitler Chancellor |
| Jan 30th | Calls for a Rechstag election for 5th March |
| Feb | Directs his campaign against 14yrs of party Government |
| 1933 | Election
Goering, Herman | |
| Feb 20th | Business leaders meet at Goering's President's Palace & agree to finance Hitler |
| Feb 20th | Helps agree to an election fund of 3 million Reichsmarks from leading industrialists |
| 1933 | Election
Hitler, Adolf | |
| Feb 20th | Business leaders meet at the President's Palace & agree to financially support Hitler |
| 1933 | Election
Braun, Otto | |
| Mar 5th | Following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor by President Hindenburg, the SPD receives 18.25% of the votes during the last free elections gaining 120 seats |
| 1933 | Election
Hitler, Adolf | |
| Mar 5th | Falls far short of the 2/3 majority to establish dictatorship by consent of Parliament |
| Mar 5th | The Nazis increase their vote to 44% giving the Nazis & their coalition allies the German National People's Party 52% |
| Mar 5th | The Nazis need the 52 seats won by their Nationalist allies to win a majority |
| Mar 5th | The Nazis poll 17,277,180 votes, failing to win a majority with 43.9% of the total |
| Mar 5th | The Nazis win 288 out of 647 seats in the Reichstag |
| Mar 5th | With Communist electoral participation also suppressed (the Communists had previously polled 17% of the vote), the Nazis are able to increase their share of the vote in the March 5, 1933 Reichstag elections from 33% to 44% |
| Mar 5th | Hitler makes a speech on the "Day of the Awekening Nation" |
| May 28th | The Nazis win elections in Danzig |
| 1935 | Election
Henlein, Konrad | |
| | The SDP wins 44 Deputies, 60% of the German speaking people of Czech |
| 1949 | Election
Adenauer, Konrad | |
| Aug | Wins the 1st post war election for the CDU & heads a coalition Government |
| 1949 | Election
Heuss, Theodore | |
| Aug 1st | CDU 139 seats, SPD 131 seats |
| Aug 1st | Wins elections to the 1st Bundestag, lower House of the Federal Assembly |
| 1953 | Election
Manteuffel, Hasso von | |
| | Elected to the Bundestag, 1953-57 |
| 1959 | Election
Kohl, Helmut | |
| | Elected to the Landtag of the Rhineland Palatinate |
| 1976 | Election
Schmidt, Helmut Heinrich Waldemar | |
| Oct 3rd | Helmut Schmidts coalition Government is returned with a reduced majority |
| 1980 | Election
Schroder, Gerhard | |
| | Elected Member of the Bundestag |
| 1981 | Election
Schmidt, Helmut Heinrich Waldemar | |
| May 10th | The Social Democrats sustain heavy losses in West Berlin |
| 1983 | Election
Kohl, Helmut | |
| | Increases support in the general election |
| 1984 | Election
Weizsacker | |
| May 22nd | Elected President of Germany |
| 1989 | Election
Merkel, Angela Dorothea | |
| | Following the first (and only) democratic election of the East German state, Merkel becomes the deputy spokesperson of the new pre-unification caretaker Government under Lothar de MaiziŠre |
| 1989 | Election
Kohl, Helmut | |
| Jan 29th | West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Union suffers a major setback in West Berlin municipal elections |
| | Campaigns in the east, a resounding victory for the CDU |
| 1990 | Election
Modrow, Hans | |
| Mar 18th | The 1st free elections are held in the DDR |
| 1990 | Election
Merkel, Angela Dorothea | |
| Dec | At the first post-reunification general election Merkel is elected to the Bundestag from a constituency which includes the districts of Nordvorpommern and R?gen, as well as the city of Stralsund |
| 1990 | Election
Kohl, Helmut | |
| Dec 2nd | Returned as Chancellor in a re-united Germany |
| | Helmut Kohl's CDU-CSU & FDP coalition wins a 10 seat majority |
| 1998 | Election
Schroder, Gerhard | |
| | The SPD win the election |
| Mar 1st | The Social Democrats win the state lections in Lower Saxony |
| 1999 | Election
Merkel, Angela Dorothea | |
| | Merkel oversees a string of Christian Democrat election victories in six out of seven regional elections in 1999 alone, breaking the SPD-Green coalition's hold on the Bundesrat, the legislative body representing the states |
| | After three weeks of negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD, the two parties reached a deal whereby Merkel would become Chancellor and the SPD would hold 8 of the 16 seats in the cabinet |
| | Leads a Grand coalition with the sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), formed after the federal election |
| May 10th | Merkel wins the CDU/CSU nomination as challenger to Chancellor Gerhard Schr”der of the SPD in the 2005 national elections |
| Sep 18th | Merkel's CDU/CSU and Schr”der's SPD went head-to-head in the national elections, with the CDU/CSU winning 35.3% (CDU 27.8%/CSU 7.5%) of the second votes to the SPD's 34.2% |
| Nov 14th | Merkel is elected Chancellor by the majority of delegates (397 to 217) in the newly assembled Bundestag |
| Nov 14th | The coalition deal is approved by both CDU/CSU and SPD parties at party conferences |
| Sep 27th | German Chancellor Angela Merkel re-elected to second term at head of new, centre-right coalition |
