Word: gayl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appearing before the Reichsrat or Council of States, reactionary Minister of Interior Baron von Gayl made a bid for confidence by admitting, "I am a monarchist by tradition and conviction." Then he ringingly declared, "But I will allow no doubt that I shall be faithful to the oath of allegiance to the [Republican] Constitution that I swore before President von Hindenburg! Moreover Chancellor von Papen and the other ministers are in agreement with...
Interior?Baron Wilhelm von Gayl. Justice?Franz Gürtner...
Next to General von Schleicher, the most prominent new Cabinet figure is Baron Wilhelm von Gayl, Minister of Interior. Charged with the federal policing of all Germany, this typical Prussian junker (landed aristocrat) can wield much power in the coming Reichstag election. During the War as Chief Political Officer of the Eastern Army Command and afterward as Governor of Northern Lithuania in 1918 he showed both velvet tact and an iron hand...
...face of things the Hitlerites should win the coming Reichstag election as they won the election for the Prussian Diet (TIME, May 2), but last week an astonishing prediction was made from a source close to General von Schleicher and Baron von Gayl. Prediction: "The von Papen Cabinet will last from three to four years...
Short of a military coup d'etat or acquiescence of Adolf Hitler in a coalition this prediction seemed flatly unfulfillable. Observers inclined, however, to see in General von Schleicher and Baron von Gayl precisely the pair who may be able to draw Adolf Hitler into a Junkers-Army-Fascist coalition, thus giving the Fatherland a fresh and iron front, potent in dealing with other nations...