Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sense" but. . . . Chancellor von Papen, recently suspected of an intent to place the Free State of Prussia under the rule of a "Federal Commissioner" (TIME, June 20) agreed over the telephone to a peculiar settlement of that issue last week. The Fascists, though they have a plurality in the Prussian Diet and are therefore entitled by tradition to expect that the other parties will join in electing a Fascist Premier of Prussia, agreed last week that Socialist Dr. Otto Braun may remain Prussian Premier without opposition until the Federal election June...
...this arrangement, but as a practical compromise it cleared the Prussian air. Herr Hitler seemed to assume that on July 31 his Fascists will score such a smashing victory nationally that opposition in the Prussian Diet will have to give way, thus ushering in a Fascist Premier of Prussia which is nearly two-thirds of Germany...
...Papen. Born in 1879 at Werl in Prussia, Franz von Papen became a "career officer'' in the Imperial German Army. He married the niece of a French Marquis from the Sarr Basin (then German, now governed by a League of Nations commission). From his wife the Prussian officer learned to speak almost perfect French. In Washington, where von Papen was German Military Attache when the War opened, both she and he were popular...
...South German premiers led by Bavaria's Held. They were received with Chancellor von Papen present. Mincing no words Dr. Held threatened to arrest any official who might be sent from Berlin to interfere in Bavaria's affairs, accused Chancellor von Papen of intending to force upon Prussia as the head of that state a Federal commissioner. Dr. Held also denounced Baron von Gayl's complimentary reference to Adolf Hitler's Storm Troops, declared that whatever the Federal Government might do the Bavarian Government would not permit Storm Troops on its soil...
Chancellor von Paoen, making what his friends called an effort to soothe the South Germans, replied that the Federal Government did not intend to name a Federal commissioner for Prussia "unless public order is endangered and then only for a short time." Premier Held, Premier Bolz and Premier Schmitt then stiffly intimated their opinion that such action would be unconstitutional and sufficient grounds for secession of South Germany from the Federal union. The interview had lasted 90 minutes...