When the Depression sets in Germany and the government again breaks up, Paul von Hindenburg, the republic's second president, appoints a Cabinet resting on his, rather than on the Reichstag's, confidence.

He authorizes Chancellor Heinrich Brüning to dissolve the Reichstag should it prove uncooperative and promises to issue emergency decrees in lieu of Reichstag-enacted laws.

The Reichstag is dissolved in July 1930.

Voters in the September 1930 elections, battered by the Great Depression’s mass unemployment, threatened by Communist insurgency and wooed by the alliance between the industrialist Alfred Hugenberg’s Nationalist party and the Nazis, award the NSDAP one hundred and seven seats in the Reichstag, up from twelve.

The elections having produced an even less cooperative successor, Brüning now governs almost exclusively by decree.

The Nazis have become Germany’s second largest political power, their rise in 1930 accompanied by continuing political assassinations.

Rohm in 1930 returns to Germany from Boliviato reorganize the Brownshirts.