Franz von Ballestrem Centre Udo zu Stolberg-Wernigerode Independent Federal elections were held in Germany on 25 January 1907.

[1] Despite the Social Democratic Party (SPD) receiving a clear plurality of votes, they were hampered by the unequal constituency sizes that favoured rural seats.

The sustained and increasingly expensive colonial war led to a political crisis in Germany on 2 August 1906, when the Government requested an appropriation of 29 million marks from the Reichstag.

The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), in particular, refused to approve further money given the ruthless conduct of the war with genocidal casualties among the Nama.

The Government attempted to settle the conflict by making concessions, but soon met opposition from Centre Party representative Matthias Erzberger in particular, who criticised the extensive spending and argued against the colonial wars.

During the election campaign, the Government itself would be responsible for setting the tone, with its demands for a reliable majority on "national issues" and the struggle against the Social Democrats, who were seen as an enemy of monarchy, religion and property, and against the "unreliable" Centre Party.

This politicisation of the Upper Silesian Poles was primarily caused by the anti-Polish linguistic and cultural policies of the Prussian state government (see the Września school strike).