Papen cabinet
1932 cabinet of Weimar Germany
Papen cabinet
The Papen cabinet, also known as the "Barons' cabinet", headed by the independent Franz von Papen, was the nineteenth government of the Weimar Republic. It took office on 1 June 1932 when it replaced the second Brüning cabinet, which had resigned the same day after it lost the confidence of President Paul von Hindenburg. Papen's cabinet, made up of right-wing independents and members of the German National People's Party (DNVP), was a continuation of the presidential cabinets that had begun under Heinrich Brüning. It governed using emergency decrees issued by Hindenburg that bypassed the participation of the Reichstag. In the Papen government's most dramatic move, Hindenburg allowed Papen to oust the elected government of the state of Prussia and name himself Prussian Reich commissioner, an action that was a significant step in the weakening of the Weimar Republic's democratic foundations. In November 1932, following the second Reichstag election in less than a year, Hindenburg lost faith...
Read on Wikipedia · Image Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Open boosters, collect cards and trade them. Free to play.
Play for free