Otto Braun
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This article is about the Prime Minister of Prussia. For the Geman Communist and once the Comintern military adviser to the Chinese Commmunist revolution see Otto Braun (Li De).
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Otto Braun
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| In office April 6, 1925 – July 20, 1932 |
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| Preceded by | Wilhelm Marx |
| Succeeded by | Franz von Papen |
| In office November 5, 1921 – February 18, 1925 |
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| Preceded by | Adam Stegerwald |
| Succeeded by | Wilhelm Marx |
| In office March 27, 1920 – April 21, 1921 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Hirsch |
| Succeeded by | Adam Stegerwald |
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| Born | January 28, 1872 Königsberg, East Prussia |
| Died | December 14, 1955 Locarno, Switzerland |
| Political party | SPD |
Otto Braun (28 January 1872 – 14 December 1955) was a German Social Democratic politician who was Prime Minister of Prussia.
Originally from Königsberg, East Prussia, Braun became a leader of the Social Democratic Party there, and was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives 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 1920–32. He was also the Social Democratic presidential candidate in the first round of presidential elections in 1925, coming in second in 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, Paul von Hindenburg, who had not stood in the first round. Marx eventually lost to Hindenburg.
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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, could not 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 the 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, 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.
| Preceded by Paul Hirsch |
Prime Minister of Prussia 1920–1921 |
Succeeded by Adam Stegerwald |
| Preceded by Adam Stegerwald |
Prime Minister of Prussia 1921–1925 |
Succeeded by Wilhelm Marx |
| Preceded by Wilhelm Marx |
Prime Minister of Prussia 1925–1932 |
Succeeded by Franz von Papen |
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