# Hindenburg appoints Hitler Reich Chancellor

Date: 1933

## The fact

On 30 January 1933 President Hindenburg appointed Hitler Reich Chancellor of a coalition cabinet. It is a dated appointment, not the Enabling Act. Adolf Hitler's documented role is: He accepted the chancellorship in a coalition cabinet. Hindenburg appointed; Papen and Hugenberg bargained.

## Context

Papen thought he could control him. Hugenberg took economics. Sharing appointment with Hindenburg is required. The setting of Hindenburg appoints Hitler Reich Chancellor is the public file around 1933-01-30. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [democratic-resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Bundesarchiv and Britannica independently date 30 January 1933. Official carrier: Bundesarchiv — Hitler Reichskanzler 30 January 1933 (https://www.bundesarchiv.de/; Bundesarchiv). Independent carrier: Britannica — Hitler appointed chancellor (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Hitler; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Bundesarchiv — Hitler Reichskanzler 30 January 1933 (https://www.bundesarchiv.de/; Bundesarchiv).

## Significance

Worsening democratic-resilience path of very high weight. Complex. High confidence. The welfare reading on this path is worsening. Readers checking this Fact should open both named URLs for Hindenburg appoints Hitler Reich Chancellor.

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## What is established and what is not

Established: 30 January 1933 appointment. Not established: that Hindenburg already intended the later Führer state. Established: a sourced public record of Hindenburg appoints Hitler Reich Chancellor under 1933-01-30.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not merge with the Enabling Act. Mixed effects of Hindenburg appoints Hitler Reich Chancellor are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The attached driver is democratic-resilience. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Hindenburg appoints Hitler Reich Chancellor. Naming Adolf Hitler does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1933-01-30 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Adolf Hitler: https://factrail.ai/people/adolf-hitler

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.bundesarchiv.de/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Hitler

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/hitler-chancellor-1933