A Study Of The Relationship Between Female Voters And The Rise Of Nazi Party In The Later Weimar Germany

Based on the historical statistical resource of the Reichstag elections in the later Weimar Republic, this article studies thoroughly the relationship between the behavior of the female voters and the rise of the Nazi Party. Since the election in 1930, those female voters who were the majority of the total voters gradually abandoned their traditional favorite Social Democratic Party or Catholic Centre Party, and in great proportion turned to support the Nazis who were anti-feminist in the meantime. Female voters fully surpassed the male voters in both quantity and percentage as the supports of the Nazis in the election in 1932. It turned out that those female supporters of Nazis were heterogeneous, but mainly belonged to the Protestant middle-class. We also found a quite strange phenomenon that German women prefer conservative, parties which were anti-feminist, anti-emancipation, rather than SPD or KPD which gave women the suffrage in 1919. In other words, female voters’ political choice has a correlation with trend that German women went against the emancipation during Weimar Republic. Finally, the choice they made leads to the situation they wanted:out of work and other public affairs, back to the Kinder, Kuche, Kirche.In order to explain the coming and the influence of those two strange situations, it takes the reality the women had to face in Weimar society and the propaganda of different parties and other elements into consideration.