As Elbing became an industrial city, the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) frequently received the majority of votes ; in the 1912 Reichstag elections the SPD received 51 % of the vote.

The Enabling Act, passed by the Reichstag in 1933, gave Hitler and his party full legislative powers, and the country became a de facto dictatorship.

After the death of von Hindenburg in August 1934, the Reichstag appointed Hitler Führer und Reichskanzler ( leader and chancellor ); he thus became head of state as well as head of government.

In 1692, as a result of the inheritance of the Palatinate by a Catholic branch of the Wittelsbach family, which threatened to upset the religious balance of the College of Electors, the number of electors was increased to nine, with a seat being granted to the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who became known as the Elector of Hanover ( the Reichstag officially confirmed the creation in 1708 ).

The January 1912 elections brought a Reichstag where the Social Democrats, opposed to military expansion, became the largest party.

As the Nazi party became the largest party in the Reichstag Horkheimer's 1932 observation proved chillingly prophetic: " Only one thing is certain ," he wrote, " the irrationality of society has reached a point where only the gloomiest predications have any plausibility.

In September 1930 he became a member of the Reichstag and in January 1931 NSDAP Gauleiter in north Westphalia.

He became a Member of the Reichstag for South Westphalia from 1928 to 1933 and served as KPD chairman in Berlin from 1929.

In April 1924, Röhm became a Reichstag Deputy for the völkisch National Socialist Freedom Party.

Predicting the Nazi ascendancy, Ophüls, a Jew, fled to France in 1933 after the Reichstag fire and became a French citizen in 1938.

He thus became the first English language historian and indeed the first historian after Hans Mommsen to accept the conclusions of the book, that the Nazis had not set the Reichstag on fire in 1933 and that Marinus van der Lubbe had acted alone.

Mann became persona non grata in Nazi Germany and left even before the Reichstag fire in 1933.

When the news of Rathenau's death became known in the Reichstag, the session turned into turmoil.

In 1907, he was elected to the Reichstag, where he soon became a close associate of party chairman Ernst Bassermann.

With Bassermann kept away from the Reichstag by either illness or military service, Stresemann soon became the National Liberals ' de facto leader.

An attempted merger with the Young German Order to form the German State Party in 1930 failed miserably, and the party's Reichstag delegation became practically insignificant.

In 1871, Treitschke became a member of the Reichstag, and from that time till his death he was one of the most prominent figures in Berlin.

After the Reichstag and the High Command forced the resignation of Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg on July 14, 1917, Michaelis became Chancellor of Germany as well as Minister President of Prussia -- the first non-titled person to hold either office.

When Germany became a single-party state, the DStP was dissolved on 28 June 1933 and Heuss was divested of his Reichstag mandate by decree of Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick with effect from July 8.

In the Reichstag election of July 31, 1932, the NSDAP became the largest party.

Scheidemann became a Reichstag delegate from Solingen for the Social Democrats in 1903, and soon rose to be one of the principal leaders of the party.

He became an editor of Vorwärts that year, and a member of the Reichstag from 1902 to 1918.

Alvensleben became a member of the Reichstag in 1933 ; on April 5, 1934, he became commander of the 46th SS Regiment in Dresden.

Stafford Cripps became President of the Board of Trade, Herbert Morrison was given the post of Deputy Prime Minister and given overall control of Labour's nationalisation programme, Aneurin Bevan became Minister of Health, and Ellen Wilkinson, the only woman to serve in Attlee's government, became Minister of Education.

LaGuardia became Deputy Attorney General of New York in January, 1915.

On 14 October 1983, a power struggle within the government resulted in the house arrest of Bishop at the order of his Deputy Prime Minister, Bernard Coard who became Head of Government.

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

In 1956 he was elected Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and became Leader of the House, and from this point on he was generally acknowledged as Menzies ' heir apparent.

Employed in public business he became the Governor's Assistant, the Duxbury Deputy to the General Court of Plymouth, a member under arms of Capt.

As a result of the elections, Mokhehle's Deputy Prime Minister, Pakalitha Mosisili, became the new Prime Minister.

In February 1941, Beria became Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, and in June, following Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, he became a member of the State Defense Committee ( GKO ).

After the PZPR was dissolved, Leszek Miller became a co-founder of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic ( till March 1993, he was Secretary General, then Deputy Chairman and, from December 1997, the Chairman of that party ).

On the 19th of July 1947, Aung San became Deputy Chairman of the Executive Council of Burma, a transitional government.

In 1987 he also became Minister of External Relations and in 1988 Deputy Minister of Finance.

Mofaz became the 16th IDF's Chief of the General Staff, and served as Israel's Minister of Defense, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transportation and Road Safety.

In 1909, he became Canada's first Deputy Minister of Labour, a civil service position.

In 1918, Kamenev became chairman of the Moscow Soviet and soon thereafter Lenin's Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars ( government ) and the Council of Labor and Defense.

In 1952, he was appointed Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Defense, and the following year, he became Director-General.

Kok became Deputy Prime Minister to CDA leader Ruud Lubbers.

In 1966, when Harold Holt became Prime Minister, McMahon succeeded him as Treasurer and as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party.

Two of their sons later became involved in Tasmanian state politics in the Liberal Party: Kevin Lyons was Deputy Premier between 1969 and 1972 and Brendan Lyons served in the ministry of Robin Gray during the 1980s.

Jocelyn Davies became Deputy Minister for Housing, and later, Regeneration.

After the founding of the German Democratic Republic on 7 October 1949, Ulbricht became Deputy Chairman ( Stellvertreter des Vorsitzenden ) of the Council of Ministers ( Ministerrat der DDR ) under Chairman Otto Grotewohl -- i. e., deputy prime minister.