Hitler's Rise to Chancellor of Germany in 1933 Adolf Hitler's rise to Chancellor of Germany in 1933 was a culmination of political maneuvering, economic turmoil, and societal discontent following World War I. After joining the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) in 1919, Hitler quickly became its leader, leveraging widespread discontent over the Treaty of Versailles and the economic depression in the early 1930s. In the 1932 elections, the Nazi Party became the largest in the R