Otto Braun

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Otto Braun

This article is about the Prime Minister of Prussia. For the Geman Communist and once the Comintern
Comintern

The 'Comintern' was an international Communism organization founded in Moscow in March 1919. The International intended to fight "by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the Sta...
military adviser to the Chinese Commmunist revolution see Otto Braun (Li De)
Otto Braun (Li De)

Otto Braun was a Germany Communist with a long and varied career.His most significant role was as a Comintern agent sent to China in 1934, to advise the Communist Party of China on military strategy during the Chinese Civil War....
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Otto Braun (28 January 1872 - 14 December 1955) was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
Social Democratic

Social Democratic Party of Germany

The Social Democratic Party of Germany is Germany's oldest political party. After World War II, under the leadership of Kurt Schumacher, the SPD reestablished itself as an ideological party, representing the interests of the working class and the trade unions....
politician who was Prime Minister of Prussia

Prime Minister of Prussia

The office of Minister President or Prime Minister of Prussia existed in one form or another from 1792 until the dissolution of Prussia in 1947....
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Originally from Königsberg

Königsberg

K?nigsberg was after World War II in 1946 renamed Kaliningrad by the Soviet Union.The city was the Capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945....
, East Prussia

East Prussia

East Prussia refers to the main part of the Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Sea from the 13th century to 1945. From 1772?1829 and 1878?1945, the Province of East Prussia was a province of the Germany state of Prussia....
, Braun became a leader of the Social Democratic Party there, and was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives in 1913.

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Social Democratic Party of Germany

Prime Minister of Prussia

The office of Minister President or Prime Minister of Prussia existed in one form or another from 1792 until the dissolution of Prussia in 1947....
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Originally from Königsberg

Königsberg

K?nigsberg was after World War II in 1946 renamed Kaliningrad by the Soviet Union.The city was the Capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945....
, East Prussia

East Prussia

Constituent assembly

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in Weimar

Weimar

Weimar is a city in Germany. It is located in the States of Germany of Thuringia , north of the Th?ringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and Leipzig....
. He became most noted as Prime Minister of Prussia, a position in which he served almost continually from 1920–32. He was also the Social Democratic presidential candidate in the first round of presidential elections in 1925, leading the vote count in the first round of elections but withdrawing his name for the second round to make way for the Centre Party

Centre Party (Germany)

The German Centre Party was a Catholic political party in Germany during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. The party dissolved itself on 5 July, 1933 as a condition of the conclusion of Reichskonkordat between the Holy See and Germany....
's Wilhelm Marx

Wilhelm Marx

Wilhelm Marx was a Germany Lawyer, Catholic politician and a member of the Catholic Centre Party....
as a united Republican candidate against the right's candidate, Paul von Hindenburg

Paul von Hindenburg

Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg , known universally as Paul von Hindenburg was a German Generalfeldmarschall and statesman....
, who had not stood in the first round. Marx eventually lost to Hindenburg.

Braun's coalition government, one of the strongest bastions of the Weimar Republic, lost their majority in the 1932 state election, but remained in office as the opposition, comprised mainly of Communists and National Socialists, could not cooperate. In this situation, Braun's government was deposed in the Preußenschlag

Preußenschlag

The Preu?enschlag, or "Prussian coup", was one of the major steps towards the destruction of the Germany Weimar Republic and the rise of Adolf Hitler to power....
of July 1932, when Germany's chancellor Franz von Papen

Franz von Papen

was a Germany nobleman, Catholic Monarchism politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor in 1933-1934....
assumed direct federal control of Prussia's administration. Braun, however, remained de jure Prime Minister and continued to represent the state of Prussia in the Reichsrat

Reichsrat (Germany)

The Reichsrat was one of the bicameralism in Germany under the Weimar constitution, the other one being the Reichstag . After the end of German monarchy and the founding of the Weimar Republic in 1919, the Reichsrat replaced the Bundesrat as the representation of the various German states....
until January 1933, when Papen was formally appointed Prime Minister in his place. Braun emigrated to Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
after Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
assumed power as Chancellor in January 1933.

After the end of the Second World War, Braun approached the victorious allies to reinstate the legal Prussian government, but the occupation allies declined due to their plans to abolish the state of Prussia. Braun died in Locarno

Locarno

Locarno is the capital of the Locarno , located on the northern tip of Lake Maggiore in the Switzerland Cantons of Switzerland of Ticino, close to Ascona at the foot of the Swiss Alps....
in 1955.