Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Therefore, I transfer to the Federal Commissioner for Prussia [Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen] until further notice the powers which the aforesaid decision gave to the Prussian Cabinet...
...After 14 days of Cabinet crisis there emerged as Chancellor, out of a welter of intrigue, "His Field Grey Eminence," suave, sly Defense Minister General Kurt von Schleicher. By his friends the General's adroit scheming is said to have "made and broken" as Chancellor both fashionable, aristocratic Franz von Papen and his predecessor, pious, ascetic Dr. Heinrich Brüning...
Straightforward and outspoken, President von Hindenburg has never concealed his preference for Franz von Papen as Chancellor. "With a heavy heart," he declared amid the Cabinet crisis last fall, "I have repressed my own personal inclination to reappoint Colonel von Papen and I have commissioned Defense Minister General von Schleicher to form a new Cabinet." Next day, ousted von Papen received a photograph of Der Reichspräsident inscribed in Old Paul's firm hand, Ich hatte einen Kameraden ("I had a Comrade"). By last week Comrade von Papen had convinced Comrade von Hindenburg that the best interests...
Vice-Chancellor and Reich Commissioner for the State of Prussia-Franz von Papen...
...Labor-Franz Seldte (Leader of Germany's "Steel Helmet" War veterans...