Carl Wilhelm Severing was a German Social Democrat politician during the Weimar era. 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.

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  • Carl Wilhelm Severing was a German Social Democrat politician during the Weimar era. 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.
  • Carl Wilhelm Severing war ein sozialdemokratischer Politiker. Er galt als Vertreter des rechten Parteiflügels. Über Jahrzehnte kam ihm im Parteibezirk Ostwestfalen und Lippe eine Führungsrolle zu. Severing agierte als Parlamentarier während des Deutschen Kaiserreichs, der Weimarer Republik und in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Eine überregional bedeutende Rolle spielte er erstmals 1919/20 als Reichs- und Staatskommissar im Ruhrgebiet. Von 1920 bis 1926 prägte er als Innenminister durch seine Demokratisierungspolitik von Verwaltung und Polizei die Politik des Freistaates Preußens entscheidend mit. Im Kabinett von Hermann Müller bekleidete Severing von 1928 bis 1930 das Amt des Reichsinnenministers. In der Endphase der Republik war er von 1930 bis 1932 noch einmal preußischer Innenminister. Während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus lebte er als Pensionär in Bielefeld. Nach Kriegsende betätigte sich Severing erneut politisch. Er war unter anderem Vorsitzender der SPD in Ostwestfalen-Lippe und Landespolitiker in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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  • Carl Wilhelm Severing was a German Social Democrat politician during the Weimar era. 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.
  • Carl Wilhelm Severing war ein sozialdemokratischer Politiker. Er galt als Vertreter des rechten Parteiflügels. Über Jahrzehnte kam ihm im Parteibezirk Ostwestfalen und Lippe eine Führungsrolle zu. Severing agierte als Parlamentarier während des Deutschen Kaiserreichs, der Weimarer Republik und in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Eine überregional bedeutende Rolle spielte er erstmals 1919/20 als Reichs- und Staatskommissar im Ruhrgebiet.
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  • Carl Severing
  • Carl Severing
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