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Papen was born into a wealthy, powerful, famous and noble Catholic family in Werl, Westphalia, the third child of Friedrich von Papen-Köningen (1839–1906) and his wife Anna Laura von Steffens (1852–1939). [1] Papen was sent to a cadet school in Bensberg of his own volition at the age of 11 in 1891.
Franz von Papen: I: I — — Acquitted Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and Vice-Chancellor under Hitler in 1933–34. Ambassador to Austria 1934–38 and ambassador to Turkey 1939–44. Not charged as a war criminal at Nuremberg, von Papen was classified as one in 1947 by a German de-Nazification court, and sentenced to 8 years of hard labor.
The Papen cabinet, headed by the independent Franz von Papen, was the nineteenth government of the Weimar Republic. It took office on 1 June 1932 when it replaced the second Brüning cabinet , which had resigned the same day after it lost the confidence of President Paul von Hindenburg .
However, Von Papen is best remembered for his role in bringing Hitler to power and later being Nazi Germany's ambassador in Vienna from 1934 to 1938 and in Ankara from 1939 to 1944. The Marburg speech (German: Marburger Rede) was an address given by German Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen at the University of Marburg on 17 June 1934. [1]
The Hitler cabinet was the government of Nazi Germany between 30 January 1933 and 30 April 1945 upon the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. It was contrived by the national conservative politician Franz von Papen, who reserved the office of the Vice-Chancellor for himself. [1]
Franz von Papen, photographed in 1936 as German ambassador to Turkey On 1 June 1932, Hindenburg appointed Franz von Papen to the office of chancellor. [ 29 ] A former member of the Centre Party, [ 29 ] Papen recruited his cabinet from the ranks of the nobility , leading the SPD-affiliated newspaper Vorwärts to describe it as Das Kabinett der ...
Franz von Papen. Papen's initiative for the Prussian coup is to be understood within the context of the plan for the establishment of a ‘New State’, a concept propagated above all by Walther Schotte – a journalist and historian who provided Papen with ideas and theories – and Edgar Jung, a lawyer and anti-democratic journalist.
Papen (von Papen) is a German surname of the noble Papen family from Westphalia. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: August Wilhelm Papen [ de ] (1799–1858), German military engineer, geodesist and cartographer