Word: brauns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stolidly believing that theirs is not to reason why, square-headed Berlin police seized fat and foxy Premier Otto Braun of Prussia on July 20 and forcibly barred him from his office. Last week Dr. Braun came back. Waddling up the steps while a friendly throng shouted "Hail, Freedom!", he exposed his bald head, bowed several times from the waist, replaced his hat, entered his office, took off his hat and sat down once again as Premier of Prussia. "I do wish," said Dr. Braun, "that President von Hindenburg had consulted me before signing that decree. It is not enjoyable...
Reichsgericht. Premier Braun was back in his office as the result of doings last week in Leipzig, aloof seat of the Reichsgericht or German Supreme Court. In its dim and stately chamber, Chief Justice Dr. Erwin Bumke handed down what would have been a momentous decision if it had not been one of the most ambiguous verdicts ever given by a Supreme Court...
...hand Chancellor von Papen's ousting of the Prussian Cabinet under a decree of President von Hindenburg is annulled and Premier Braun & Ministers are empowered to represent the Government of Prussia. On the other hand the chancellor's appointment under the same Presidential decree of Dr. Franz Bracht as Acting Federal Commissioner to govern the State of Prussia is upheld. In effect the Supreme Court decision recognizes simultaneously two conflicting authorities in Prussia...
Serious Invasions. Since the child (Prussia) obviously had to be put together, President von Hindenburg invited Premier Braun to a consultation at which Chancellor von Papen was present. It ended in a furious quarrel over what the Supreme Court had meant, though the President, the Chancellor and the Premier all professed extreme respect for the Court's hopelessly ambiguous verdict...
...called the "Ministry of Interior of Prussia," and gave it to Dr. Bracht, who has been ruling Prussia as Acting Federal Commissioner. A Dr. Johann Popitz was popped into the State and Federal Cabinets as "Minister of Finance of Prussia." Finally the Federal Minister of Agriculture, Baron Magnus von Braun, added to his titles "Minister of Agriculture of Prussia...