This article is about the Prime Minister of Prussia. For the Comintern adviser in China, see Otto Braun (communist).
Otto Braun
Minister President of Prussia
In office 6 April 1925 – 20 July 1932
Preceded by
Wilhelm Marx
Succeeded by
Franz von Papen
In office 5 November 1921 – 18 February 1925
Preceded by
Adam Stegerwald
Succeeded by
Wilhelm Marx
In office 27 March 1920 – 21 April 1921
Preceded by
Paul Hirsch
Succeeded by
Adam Stegerwald
Member of the Reichstag
In office 24 June 1920 – 21 March 1933
Personal details
Born
28 January 1872 (1872-01-28) Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
Died
15 December 1955(1955-12-15) (aged 83) Locarno, Switzerland
Political party
SPD
Otto Braun (28 January 1872 – 15 December 1955) was a politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic. From 1920 to 1932, with only two brief interruptions, Braun was Minister President of the Free State of Prussia. The continuity of personnel in high office resulted in a largely stable government in Prussia, in contrast to the sometimes turbulent politics of the Reich. During his term of office, Prussia's public administration was reorganized along democratic lines. He replaced many monarchist officials with supporters of the Weimar Republic, strengthened and democratized the Prussian police, and made attempts to fight the rise of the Nazi Party.
On 20 July 1932, in the Prussian coup d'état (Preußenschlag), Reich Chancellor Franz von Papen ousted Braun's government from power following its loss of a parliamentary majority to the Nazis and the Communist Party of Germany. After Adolf Hitler seized power at the end of January 1933, Prussia lost its democratic constitution and Braun went into exile. After World War II, he had little or no political influence and was largely forgotten by the time he died in 1955.
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(née Braun; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler...
the leadership (1920–1932) of East Prussian Social Democrat OttoBraun. While in office Braun implemented several reforms (together with his Minister of...
held by the Chancellor of the German Empire, beginning with the tenure of Otto von Bismarck. Under the Free State of Prussia the Minister President was...
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (US: /ˌvɜːrnər vɒn ˈbraʊn/ VUR-nər von BROWN, German: [ˌvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊ̯n]; 23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977)...
over from Mao when they arrived from Shanghai. Following the advice of OttoBraun, they replaced cautious guerilla tactics with a more traditional military...
consistently backed Mao Zedong against the interests of Bo Gu and OttoBraun. Bo and Braun were later blamed for the Red Army's defeats, and were eventually...
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the East Prussian Nazi party from 1928, led the district from 1932. The Otto-Braun-House was requisitioned to become the headquarters of the SA, which used...
commanded by a three-man committee, which included Wang Ming's associates OttoBraun (a Comintern military advisor), Bo Gu and Zhou Enlai. The CSR then began...
be organised in the German Army, including the Asian corps, which General Otto Liman von Sanders attempted to obey, and which Papen refused to obey. Sanders...
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol and Legend of the Demon Cat; in Beijing Died: OttoBraun (aka "Li De"), 73, German communist journalist, Comintern agent and military...
From 1933 to 1934 he was indicted, along with Wilhelm Marx and Heinrich Brauns, in the trial of the Cologne Volksverein Verlag in his capacity as board...
there were changes in the government of Prussia. The new leaders included OttoBraun (SPD) as minister president and Severing as interior minister. They did...
authority abroad. In the historical context, Hitler likely referred to OttoBraun, the former Prime Minister of Prussia, who was effectively ousted by the...
places, starting clock-wise in the west: Lichtenberger Straße, Mollstraße, Otto-Braun-Straße, Am Friedrichshain, Virchowstraße, Margarete-Sommer-Straße, Danziger...
Müller, Interior Minister Carl Severing, Prussian Minister President OttoBraun, Prussian Interior Minister Albert Grzesinski and Berlin Police chief...
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