What position of power was Hitler appointed to?

The answer to this is that Adolf Hitler was appointed to
be the Chancellor of Germany.  This happened in January of 1933.  Having been appointed
Chancellor, Hitler took more and more power for himself and for the Nazi Party,
eventually creating a system in which he had essentially unlimited power in
Germany.

Hitler was appointed because the leaders of the
government wanted to coopt the Nazi movment.  They believed that appointing Hitler as
chancellor would make his followers happy.  At the same time, they thought, they could
control Hitler so as to make sure that he did what they wanted.  In this way, they would
have gotten the benefits of having Hitler in power without having to allow him to truly
control things.  They were, of course, terribly mistaken.