First Brüning cabinet
The first Brüning cabinet, headed by Heinrich Brüning of the Centre Party, was the seventeenth democratically elected government during the Weimar Republic. It took office on 30 March 1930 when it replaced the second Müller cabinet, which had resigned on 27 March over the issue of how to fund unemployment compensation.
First Cabinet of Heinrich Brüning | |
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17th Cabinet of Weimar Germany | |
| 1930–1931 | |
Members of the cabinet | |
| Date formed | 30 March 1930 |
| Date dissolved | 10 October 1931 (1 year, 6 months and 10 days) |
| People and organisations | |
| President | Paul von Hindenburg |
| Chancellor | Heinrich Brüning |
| Vice Chancellor | Hermann Dietrich |
| Member parties | Centre Party German National People's Party German Democratic Party German People's Party Bavarian People's Party Reich Party of the German Middle Class Conservative People's Party |
| Status in legislature | Minority Presidential Cabinet 244 / 491 (50%) |
| Opposition parties | Communist Party of Germany Nazi Party |
| History | |
| Election(s) | 1928 federal election |
| Legislature term(s) | 4th Reichstag of the Weimar Republic |
| Predecessor | Second Müller cabinet |
| Successor | Second Brüning cabinet |
Brüning hoped to be able to work with the Reichstag to solve Germany's pressing economic problems, but when it rejected his budget for 1930, he worked with President Paul von Hindenburg to have it converted into an emergency decree. After the Reichstag rejected the decree, Hindenburg, at Brüning's request, dissolved the Reichstag and called new elections. The steps that were taken after the rejection of the 1930 budget marked the beginning of the presidential governments of the Weimar Republic under which the president and chancellor used constitutional emergency powers to bypass the Reichstag.
Brüning's first cabinet resigned on 10 October 1931 after the failure of an Austro-German customs union forced the resignation of Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, and Hindenburg pressed Brüning to move his cabinet more to the right. It was replaced on the same day by his second cabinet.