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This article is about the Prime Minister of Prussia. For the Communist writer see Otto Braun (Li De).
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Otto Braun (
28 January 1872 -
14 December 1955) was a
German Social Democratic politician who was
Prime Minister of Prussia.
Originally from
Königsberg,
Prussia, Braun became a leader of the Social Democratic Party there, and was elected to the
Prussian Diet in
1913. In
1919, he was elected to the
Constituent Assembly in
Weimar. He became most noted as
Prime Minister of Prussia, a position in which he served almost continually from
1920 to
1932. 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's
Wilhelm Marx as a united Republican candidate against the right's candidate,
Field Marshal Hindenburg, who hadn't 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, couldn't cooperate. In this situation, Braun's government was deposed in the
Preußenschlag of July 1932, when Germany's chancellor
Franz von Papen assumed direct federal control of Prussia's administration. Braun however remained de jure Prime Minister and continued to represent the state of Prussia in
Reichsrat until January 1933, when Papen was formally appointed Prime Minister in his place. Braun emigrated to
Switzerland after
Adolf Hitler assumed power as Chancellor in January
1933.
After the end of the Second World War from his exile 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 in 1955.
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