29 March 1925 (first round) 26 April 1925 (second round)
1932 →
Turnout
68.87% (first round) 77.56% (second round)
Candidate
Paul von Hindenburg
Wilhelm Marx
Ernst Thälmann
Party
Independent Supported by:
Reichsblock
DNVP
DVP
BVP
NSDAP
WP
BB
DHP
Stahlhelm
JDO
Centre Supported by:
Volksblock
SPD
Centre
DDP
KPD
Popular vote
14,655,641
13,751,605
1,931,151
Percentage
48.29%
45.31%
6.36%
First round results by district and independent city
Second round results by district and independent city
President before election
Friedrich Ebert
SPD
Elected President
Paul von Hindenburg
Independent
Presidential elections were held in Germany on 29 March 1925, with a runoff on 26 April.[1] They were the first direct elections to the office of President of the Reich (Reichspräsident), Germany's head of state during the 1919–33 Weimar Republic. The first President, Friedrich Ebert, who had died on 28 February 1925, had been elected indirectly, by the National Assembly, but the Weimar Constitution required that his successor be elected by the "whole German people". Paul von Hindenburg was elected as the second president of Germany in the second round of voting.
Hindenburg was the candidate of a broad coalition of the political right. Many on the right hoped that once in power he would destroy Weimar democracy from the inside and restore the pre-Weimar status quo. The two other candidates who were believed to have a chance of winning were Otto Braun of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Wilhelm Marx of the Centre Party. Both the SPD and Centre were members of the Weimar Coalition, the group of parties regarded as most committed to the Weimar system. Only Marx proceeded to the second round of the election.
The election was important because of the turbulent times in which it occurred and because, under the Weimar Constitution, the head of state wielded considerable power. Hindenburg would be again returned in the 1932 election and would play an important role during the rise to power of the Nazi Party. However, many of Hindenburg's 1925 backers were subsequently disappointed. Although in the years that followed his election many questioned the constitutionality of certain of his actions, Hindenburg never attempted to overthrow the Weimar constitution outright.
^Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p762 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
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