GERMAN CHANCELLORS SURVIVOR- winner: Willy BRANDT, over Adenauer !

[big bad fab]

Wirth is out after a fiercely fought round

ROUND TWENTY-EIGHT IS OPEN

I vote for Merkel !

[Nhoj]

Angela Merkel

[Хahar 🤔]

Merkel

[Hash]

Angela Merkel, I guess.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Helmut Schmidt

[Lincoln Republican]

Helmut Schmidt

[minionofmidas]

Hmmm.... oh well, Merkel. The chance for Schmidt will come back. Merkel might not. After all, the next obvious alternative is Adenauer.

[GMantis]

Angela Merkel

[Edu]

Merkel

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Merkel is eventually out, after having received one vote as soon as round 2 ! She was a big fighter, betrayed by myself !

ROUND TWENTY-NINE IS OPEN

I vote for Willy Brandt.

Granted, there was this great Ostpolitik.
BUT, in internal affairs, Germany didn't do very good with him, in terms of economics and public finances.
He wasn't able to find that Guillaume was a spy.

[Edu]

Schmidt

[minionofmidas]

BUT, in internal affairs, Germany didn't do very good with him, in terms of economics and public finances.

Cite?

Schmidt, of course.

[Nhoj]

Helmut Schmidt

[Hash]

Helmut Schmidt

[big bad fab]

BUT, in internal affairs, Germany didn't do very good with him, in terms of economics and public finances.

Cite?

Schmidt, of course.

Big inflation throughout the period.
Failed experience of floating DM in 1971 (Schiller resigned in 1972).
Small recession in industrial output in late 1971, beginning 1972, less than 1% growth in 1973, almost 0 in 1974.
Of course, there was the monetary crisis and then the oil crisis.
But I think Brandt wasn't a great manager.

And don't forget we have only 5 chancellors left. I need to give some motives to eliminate Brandt now...

And I quite like Schmidt, a moderate guy, very pro-European. He did all that he could in a very tough time.
I know he is going to be ousted. But it will be without my vote, as in Bismarck and Kohl cases. And I don't want to see an unanimous vote against him. So sad

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I'd like to change my vote to Philipp Scheidemann, mar plij.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Helmut Schmidt

[Lincoln Republican]

Helmut Schmidt

[big bad fab]

I'd like to change my vote to Philipp Scheidemann, mar plij.

OK, as I haven't fixed any rule on this

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Oh, just great, no one who I really dislike left

By elimination Wilhelm Marx

[big bad fab]

Helmut Schmidt is out, without any surprise.

ROUND THIRTY IS OPEN

I vote for Scheidemann.

Well, with 4 chancellors left, things are getting really hard.
My provocative vote against Brandt wasn't a success. I must try someone else !
And Marx, well, he was faced with so harsh a context...

[Hash]

Scheidemann

[minionofmidas]

Adenauer.

A weird one, that yin. An old-world 19th century catholic authoritarian whose old-world hatred of Prussian authoriarianism led him to dabble in high treason in the early 20s (Rhenanian Separatism, lol)... and who seized the chance of defeating Prussian authoritarianism that the division of Germany provided. And who therefore, despite all the lip service to "German Unity", set about perpetuating that division.
It was a great success. You have to grant him that. I'm glad it worked out that way. Though the work would of course have remained incomplete without the 68ers. (And though it set the CDU on its incredibly twisted course of condemning and all the same propping up the GDR regime, and collecting the votes of those who condemned it most unreasoningly. A course it still hasn't come off off, and that's not doing Germany any good.)
But that doesn't make the man at all likeable.

[Edu]

Scheidemann

[Nhoj]

Scheidemann