Was the Nazi party first elected Democratically and have the majority of support from the German people?

Answer 1

Whenever wherever has the majority of a nation's citizens backed the party in power? Not in Modern America or Germany under the Nazi's. In both Nations the people voted for a President and a Congress but unlike America where it is a pissing match between two big parties, in Germany dozens of parties jockeyed for power and only by joining in cooperation with other parties was one party or another able to wield power.

In Germany throughout the late 1920's into the first years of the 30s the Nazis worked to become a majority party and by 1932 they were in the top three. There were unsuccessful getting Adolf Hitler elected to the President but by allying themselves with two other parties in the Congress/Reichtag they were able to pressure President Paul Von Hindenburg into appointing Adolf Chancellor.

Then the Reichtag eventually voted all other parties out of existence, made it a rule that all good Germans were now Nazis and anyone objecting to this was subject to disciplinary measures (much as people want it to be with The Republican Party in America).

A best guesstimate based on exhaustive research suggests that The Nazi s had around thirty three percent to forty four percent of German voters behind them the closest measuring stick in this is Hitler's popular vote when losing to Hidenburg.
Contrating this with Nazi party votes during the last 'free' prewar election.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler
""Nazi Party Election Results

Date Votes Percentage Seats in Reichstag Background
May 1924 1,918,300 6.5 32 Hitler in prison
December 1924 907,300 3.0 14 Hitler is released from prison
May 1928 810,100 2.6 12
September 1930 6,409,600 18.3 107 After the financial crisis
July 1932 13,745,800 37.4 230 After Hitler was candidate for presidency
November 1932 11,737,000 33.1 196
March 1933 17,277,000 43.9 288 During Hitler's term as Chancellor of Germany """

http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0403a.asp
""""Since Hindenberg had not received a majority of the vote, however, a runoff election had to be held among the top three vote-getters. On April 19, 1932, the runoff results were:

Hindenburg 53.0 percent
Hitler 36.8 percent
Thaelmann 10.2 percent
Thus, even though Hitler’s vote total had risen, he still had been decisively rejected by the German people.
Even though Hitler had badly lost the presidential election, he was drawing ever-larger crowds during the congressional election. As Shirer points out,

In one day, July 27, he spoke to 60,000 persons in Brandenburg, to nearly as many in Potsdam, and that evening to 120,000 massed in the giant Grunewald Stadium in Berlin while outside an additional 100,000 heard his voice by loudspeaker.

Hitler’s rise to power


The July 31, 1932, election produced a major victory for Hitler’s National Socialist Party. The party won 230 seats in the Reichstag, making it Germany’s largest political party, but it still fell short of a majority in the 608-member body.

On the basis of that victory, Hitler demanded that President Hindenburg appoint him chancellor and place him in complete control of the state. Otto von Meissner, who worked for Hindenburg, later testified at Nuremberg,

Hindenburg replied that because of the tense situation he could not in good conscience risk transferring the power of government to a new party such as the National Socialists, which did not command a majority and which was intolerant, noisy and undisciplined.
Political deadlocks in the Reichstag soon brought a new election, this one in November 6, 1932. In that election, the Nazis lost two million votes and 34 seats. Thus, even though the National Socialist Party was still the largest political party, it had clearly lost ground among the voters.

Attempting to remedy the chaos and the deadlocks, Hindenburg fired Papen and appointed an army general named Kurt von Schleicher as the new German chancellor. Unable to secure a majority coalition in the Reichstag, however, Schleicher finally tendered his resignation to Hindenburg, 57 days after he had been appointed.

On January 30, 1933, President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany. Although the National Socialists never captured more than 37 percent of the national vote, and even though they still held a minority of cabinet posts and fewer than 50 percent of the seats in the Reichstag, Hitler and the Nazis set out to to consolidate their power. With Hitler as chancellor, that proved to be a fairly easy task. ""

Peace.....

Answer 2

They did stand for election but they never had a majority in the Reichstag until Hitler seized power and began to ban other political parties such as the communists

Answer 3

It was part of a coalition with the Catholic-Center party. Together, they were a majority.