tahindenburg influenced by the camarilla became increasingly estranged from br ning and pushed his chancellor to move the government in a decidedly authoritarian and right wing direction this culminated in may with the resignation of the br ning cabinet hindenburg appointed the nobleman franz von papen as chancellor heading a cabinet of barons papen was bent on authoritarian rule and since in the reichstag only the conservative german national people's party dnvp supported his administration he immediately called for new elections in july in these elections the nazis achieved their biggest success yet and won seats becoming the largest party in the reichstag knowing that it was not possible to form a stable government without nazi support papen tried to persuade hitler to become vice chancellor and enter a new government with a parliamentary basis hitler however would settle for nothing less than the chancellorship he put further pressure on papen by entertaining parallel negotiations with the centre party papen's former party which was bent on bringing down the renegade papen in both negotiations hitler demanded that he as leader of the strongest party must be chancellor but hindenburg consistently refused to appoint the bohemian lance corporal to the chancellorship after a vote of no confidence in the papen government supported by of the deputies the new reichstag was dissolved and new elections were called in november this time the nazis lost some seats but still remained the largest party in the reichstag after papen failed to secure a majority he proposed to dissolve the parliament again along with an indefinite postponement of elections hindenburg at first accepted this but after general kurt von schleicher and the military withdrew their support lkheader