The primary reason that Hitler gained votes and took power was as a result of his ability to take advantage of a situation, The Great Depression in 1929. After the Great Depression the German people became very poor, Hitler offered to help those who were affected by the Great Depression, the farmers, unemployed and businessmen. The people took notice of Hitler, as he was promising to get German people out of the poverty they were in. I know this is the most important reason since in between 1928 and 1930 the amount of seats the Nazi party had in the Reichstag increased from 12 to 107, and after this again increased to 288 in 1933. The German people viewed Hitler as their saviour from poverty and their way out of the depression, as he solved the problems of unemployment, crime, starvation and poverty. Had the stock markets not crashed and the Great Depression not happened the Nazi party would have stayed as a small party and Hitler would not have taken power.
Another reason that Hitler came to power was his political views. A popular view was that he wanted to once again make Germany a great power like it was prior to The Great War. Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany’s past mistakes. Also one of his main priorities was to destroy the Treaty of Versailles, this was very popular with the German public as they believed the politians WW1 had betrayed them by signing the treaty. Hitlers foreign policy was also popular with the public he wished to gain “living space” and take back land that had been taken from them for example the Polish corridor and Alsace Lorriane. Overall his 25 points were popular with the majority of the German public Fuhrer Princip this is the idea of having one strong leader, like the Kaiser before WW1.
The use of propaganda by the Nazi’s was very important; the man who was in charge of it was Joseph Goebbles. The propaganda let people know what Hitler would change and persuaded the people to vote for him.
There were also many political errors made by Von Pappen and Hindenburg which made it easier for Hitler to come to power, they tried to manipulate him and use him, however they underestimated Hitler. Hindenburg would not appoint Hitler as Chancellor, even when is party was in control of Half of the Reichstag, he waited until he had no other choice but appoint Hitler.
In conclusion the primary reason why Hitler came to power was because of the Great depression and his reaction to it. He saw this to offer not what the German people would like, but what they needed. Without the Great depression Hitler would not have taken power. The SA also played a part but this is not as important as the Great Depression.