Free State of Prussia
The Free State of Prussia (German: Freistaat Preußen) was a state of Germany from 1918 to 1947. It was formed in 1918 in Weimar Republic after the German Empire and its state, the Kingdom of Prussia collapsed in 1918 in World War 1 and the German Revolution Of 1918–1919. It’s German Colonies in Africa,Asia and Oceania and the Pacific Ocean which were lost and occupied by Britain,France,Belgium,Portugal and Japan,Australia . Kaiser Wilhelm II the last Kaiser of Germany who replaced his father Friedrich III of Germany in 1888 was forced to surrender the Prussian Throne in 1918. During the Interwar period from 1918–1939, the Weimar Era Germany was very poor when The Great Depression began in 1929. However, in 1933 Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party took over and formed a new German Reich aka the Greater German Reich and aka the Third Reich (Nazi Germany) just like Otto von Bismarck formed Germany in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War and the defeat of Napoleon III. After the end of World War 2 in 1945, the Free State Of Prussia dissolved in 1947, and in 1949 Germany got split into West Germany (Federal Republic Of Germany) and East Germany (German Democratic Republic) and Berlin was split into West Berlin and East Berlin by the Allies until the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 where it lasted 28 years until the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Today the Free State Of Prussia became Schleswig-Holstein,Lower Saxony,Brandenburg,Pomerania,Rhineland-Palatinate and other States of Germany while East Prussia became part of the Soviet Union in 1945 which Joseph Stalin took from the Nazis and today it is called Kaliningrad in Russia (Russian Federation) since 1991 after the 1947–1991 Cold War with the United States Of America,Britain and France . The Presidents of the Free State Of Prussia were Friedrich Ebert from 1919-to 1925 and Paul von Hindenburg from 1925 to 1934. The last President of Nazi Germany was Admiral Karl Dönitz who surrendered Nazi Germany in May 1945 after Adolf Hitler’s death on 30 April 1945 which was originally going to be on 5 May 1945 the date that Napoleon died in 1821. Still, it was 30 April instead since Adolf Hitler is not related to Napoleon since he is a Austrian and was only copying Napoleon.
| Free State of Prussia Freistaat Preußen | ||||||
| State of Germany | ||||||
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| Capital city | Berlin | |||||
| Government | Republic | |||||
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| - | 1933–1935 | Adolf Hitler | ||||
| - | 1935–1945 | Hermann Göring | ||||
| Minister-President | ||||||
| - | 1918 (first) | Friedrich Ebert | ||||
| - | 1933–1945 (last) | Hermann Göring | ||||
| Legislature | State Diet | |||||
| - | Upper Chamber | State Council | ||||
| - | Lower Chamber | House of Representatives | ||||
| Historical era | Interwar/World War II | |||||
| - | German Revolution | 9 November 1918 | ||||
| - | Constitution adopted | 30 November 1920 | ||||
| - | Preußenschlag | 20 July 1932 | ||||
| - | Machtergreifung | 30 January 1933 | ||||
| - | Reichsstatthaltergesetz | 30 January 1935 | ||||
| - | Formally abolished | 25 February 1947 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | 1925[1] | 292,695.36 km2 (113,010 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | 1925[1] | 38,175,986 | ||||
| Density | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",". /km2 (Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",". /sq mi) | |||||
| Today part of | Germany Poland Russia Lithuania | |||||
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Free State Of Prussia Media
Paul Hirsch, Prussian leader of the Majority SPD (MSPD)
SPD poster for the 1919 election to the constitutional Prussian State Assembly. It reads: "Women! Equal rights. Equal obligations. Vote Social Democratic!"
Otto Braun, who became the Free State of Prussia's longest serving Minister President.
- For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Carl Severing*ADN-ZB-Archiv*Carl Severing*sozialdemokratischer Minister*geb.
Justice Minister Hugo am Zehnhoff
Black-red-gold flag of the Weimar Republic
Black-white-red flag of Imperial Germany
Anti-Nazi march of the SPD in Berlin, 1930. The sign reads: "Nazi victory will lead Germany to a civil war."
- For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Geburtstag des Vizekanzlers.Der Stellvertreter des Reichskanzlers, Vizekanzler Franz von Papen, wird am 29.10.
Nazi campaign posters in Berlin, 1932. They read: "Save my Prussia!" and "Break Red power through List 8".
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References
- ↑ Beckmanns Welt-Lexikon und Welt-Atlas. Leipzig / Vienna: Verlagsanstalt Otto Beckmann. 1931.