Carl Severing, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Carl Severing

German politician

Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1875

Place of Birth: Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 23-Jul-1952

Profession: politician

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Carl Severing

  • Carl Wilhelm Severing (1 June 1875, Herford, Westphalia – 23 July 1952, Bielefeld) was a German Social Democrat politician during the Weimar era. He was seen as a representative of the right wing of the party.
  • Over the years, he took a leading influence in the party district of Ostwestfalen and Lippe.
  • He was a parliamentarian in the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and in Northrhine-Westphalia.
  • He first played more than a regional role when he became Reich and later State Commissar in the Ruhr from 1919 to 1920.
  • He was Interior Minister of Prussia from 1920 to 1926, Minister of the Interior from 1928 to 1930 and Interior Minister of Prussia again from 1930 to 1932.
  • Along with fellow Social Democrat, Otto Braun, Severing agreed to General Hans von Seeckt's plans for a secret army to protect Germany's eastern border against a sudden attack from Poland.
  • At the Nuremberg Trials on 21 May 1946, Severing defended this strategy by saying: That the army of 100,000 men granted to Germany was not sufficient even for a defensive war was and is known to-day possibly to everyone in Germany concerned with politics.
  • Germany got into a very bad situation with regard to her eastern neighbours since the establishment of the Corridor.
  • The insular position of East Prussia forced Germany, even at that time (1920–22), to take measures which I reluctantly helped to carry out. According to Geoffrey Winthrop Young's diary entry for 14 December 1929: "A dramatic incident was the entry of Minister Severing three hours late at the end of a cabinet meeting which had lasted two days, during which time he had saved parliamentary government in Germany, and incidentally avoided being appointed himself dictator by Hindenburg.
  • He was naturally fatigued, but took part in our discussions for the remainder of a long evening".Severing introduced the law for the defence of the Republic and said of it on 13 March 1930: The right of assembly has become the wrongs of assembly, and press freedom has become press licence.
  • We cannot permit demagogues to inflame the masses any further.
  • Last year in Prussia alone three hundred policemen were wounded and fourteen killed in the course of their duties.

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