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From the late 18th century the expanded Prussia dominated North Germany both politically, economically and in terms of population size, and was the core of the unified German Empire formed in 1871.
Prussia greatly expanded its territories to the east during the Partitions of Poland between 1772 and 1795.
Prussia's democratic constitution was suspended in 1932 as a result of a coup by Germany's conservative Chancellor Franz von Papen, marking the effective end of German democracy.
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 Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prussia as a state was de facto abolished by the Nazis in 1934, de jure by the Allied Powers in 1947.
From the late 18th century the expanded Prussia dominated North Germany politically, economically and in terms of population size, and was the core of the unified German Empire formed in 1871.
Being predominantly a northern and eastern German state, Prussia had a large Protestant majority, although there were substantial Roman Catholic populations in the Rhineland, while a number of districts in Posen, Silesia, West Prussia, and the Warmia and Masuria regions of East Prussia had populations of predominantly Catholic Poles.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Prussia
For a considerable length of time Napoleon tempted Prussia by holding out the hope of this acquisition, and in 1806 by the plan of a North German Confederation of which Prussia was to be the leader, Frederick William II even sought to gain territory in southern Germany.
As Prussia had aided the principalities of central Germany to suppress internal revolts in the spring of 1849, these countries did not at first venture to disagree with Prussia, as appears from the agreement of 26 May with Saxony and Hanover, called the "union of the three kings".
The ability of Prussia to accomplish the difficult task of defeating the attacks of Austria was probably due to the expert knowledge and clearness of the chief representative of its economic policy, Rudolf von Delbrück, and to the fact that Hanover joined the Zollverein in Sept., 1851.
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 AllRefer.com - Hermann Wilhelm Goering (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
On his return he reestablished contact with Hitler and was elected (1928) to the Reichstag, of which he became president in 1932.
When Hitler came to power (1933) he made Goering air minister of Germany and prime minister and interior minister of Prussia.
He became director of Hitler's four-year economic plan in 1936, supplanted Hjalmar Schacht as minister of economy in 1937, and was virtual dictator over the German economy until 1943.
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 Interior   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Interior, South Dakota Interior is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 77.
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 FACT BOOK
When it appeared that the King of Prussia (Wilhelm) and the Emperor of France (Napoleon III) agreed to a solution, Bismarck leaked a telegram (the EMS telegram) to the press that made it sound like France had been insulted by Wilhelm.
Prime Minister Baldwin in April refused to renew a subsidy to the mining industry, and in May stopped negotiations with the TUC delegation.
But Prussia dominated, and one reason Bismarck and the Kaiser wanted federalism was not so much to assure that states could limit the central government, but that Prussia itself would not fall victim to the central government’s dictates.
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 Hermann Goering
Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler's designated successor, the second man in the Third Reich, Hermann Goering was born in Rosenheim on January 12, 1893.
Following Hitler's appointment as Chancellor on 30 January 1933, Goering was made Prussian Minister of the Interior, Commander-in-Chief of the Prussian Police and Gestapo and Commissioner for Aviation.
Under the pretext of a threatened communist coup, Prussia was 'cleansed' and hundreds of officers and thousands of ordinary policemen were purged, being replaced from the great reservoir of SA and SS men who took over the policing of Berlin.
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Elected as deputy of the 5th Saeima (1993) of the Republic of Latvia, Birkavs was prime minister from July 1993 to September 1994, and, as of September 15, foreign minister and deputy prime minister in the government headed by Maris Gailis.
He became foreign minister in 1974 in the government headed by Konstantinos Karamanlis that followed the fall of the military dictatorship and the restoration of democracy that year.
It was a key appointment, as Blair announced that on becoming prime minister he would make his three top priorities "education, education, education." When Labour won the 1997 general election, Blunkett became education secretary, with the task of raising school standards to match those of other prosperous countries.
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 The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 12
The Reich Minister of the Interior was a minister with no personal executive power, and I will never forget the impression it made on me, while training as a civil servant, that we officials in the Secret State Police were instructed in principle not to answer any inquiries from the Reich Ministry of the Interior.
Naturally, at intervals the Reich Minister of the Interior sent reminders, and the efficiency of a Gestapo official was judged by the number of such reminders he could show his chief, Diels, as proof that he did not pay any attention to such matters.
He went to the finance ministers of the individual states and told them that he needed funds for the guard troops of the concentration camps, for the so-called "Death's Head" units, and he drew up a scale whereby five SS men were to guard one prisoner.
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 History: Otto von Bismarck and his Policies
In Prussia the minister of public worship and education, Adalbert Falk, with Bismarck's blessing, introduced a series of bills establishing civil marriage, limiting the movement of the clergy, and dissolving religious orders.
The liberal ministers Falk and Rudolph von Delbrück resigned, and Robert von Puttkamer became minister of public worship and education in 1879 and minister of interior in 1881.
When Bismarck became prime minister of Prussia in 1862, the kingdom was universally considered the weakest of the five European powers.
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 A Libertarian View of the Worst Catastrophe by Jim Powell
Prussia had built a system of forts that were expected to provide a sturdy defense, but they generally surrendered without much resistance.
Bismarck declared there was a loophole in Prussia’s constitution, providing that if the king and diet couldn’t agree on a budget, previous spending and taxing levels continued in force, and the king’s ministers could make decisions until there was an agreement.
The Tory prime minister from 1874 to 1880, he defended the monarchy, the House of Lords and the Church of England.
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 World War I Through World War II: The Long Catastrophe
If civilian ministers stood in his way, his ultimate threat was to resign, and the Emperor would sweep away his opposition.
A republic was proclaimed in Berlin for Prussia and the Empire, and the old government, minus the army, went on to sign and armistice and a peace treaty without a king and emperor, its traditional center of authority.
Hermann Goering became Interior Minister of Prussia and Minister President of the Prussian State Council.
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 Interior minister -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Interior Minister is a member of a (A cupboard-like repository or piece of furniture with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display) Cabinet in a (The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit) Government.
The (A person appointed to a high office in the government) Minister of the Interior (also Internal Affairs or Home Affairs) has positions which vary between governments.
In most nations, the Interior Minister is responsible for (The force of policemen and officers) police or (additional info and facts about state security) state security.
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I called a session of the ministers for three o'clock....I moved, and the motion was accepted, that we intended to maintain a provisionally receptive attitude in respect of the imperial revelations, if these should be important, in order that we might thereafter discuss them confidentially among ourselves.
All the ministers who spoke declared that the immediate consideration and drafting of such refractory material was impracticable.
As minister-president of Prussia, he found it useful to prevent direct access to the king, a means of maintaining himself in power.
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 Trials of German Major War Criminals: Volume 9
In Prussia I received the position of the Prussian Minister of the Interior, then, on 20th April, 1933, in addition the post of Prime Minister of Prussia.
Decisive at that time, however, were the two offices of Prime Minister of Prussia on one hand and Minister of Aviation on the other hand.
Meanwhile, outside Prussia a regrouping of police had taken place in such a way that Himmler was in charge of the police in all provinces of Germany with the exception of Prussia only.
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 Interior Minister of Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
5 Ministers of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-present
Ministers of the Interior of the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990
Ministers of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-present
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 Currents in Theology and Mission: Schleiermacher's social witness.(Friedrich Schl... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
War ensued immediately, and Prussia was utterly defeated: Napoleon routed the unprepared Prussian army at the battle of Jena (October 14, 1806), captured Berlin (forcing the royal court to flee to Koenigsberg), and concluded a peace treaty at Tilsit in 1807 that made Prussia subject to the French.
In 1810, Ludwig Nicolovius became minister of Kultusabteilung, the ecclesiastical section of the Ministry of the Interior.
Prussia was not unique in creating a union church; the German states of Baden, Nassau, and the Palatinate did the same in the years 1817-21.
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 World Almanac for Kids
He served as French translator to Francis Dana (1743–1811), U.S. minister to Russia, in 1781–83 and as his father’s secretary in 1783, during the peace negotiations that ended the American Revolution.
That same year he became minister to Prussia, with which he concluded a pact incorporating the neutral rights provisions of Jay’s Treaty.
In 1815 he was appointed minister to Great Britain, where he did much to ease tensions resulting from the war.
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 911Truth.org ::::: The 9/11 Truth Movement
Too late, the ordinary German realized that the violence which before had been directed against 'other' people could now equally land on him, especially when he saw what Goering did in Prussia where he was the Minister of the Interior and controlled the police.
He simply augmented the police numbers with 50,000 men of which 40,000 came from the SA and issued orders that no force was too great in apprehending the enemies of the State; at the time Prussia covered about two-thirds of Germany.
One of them was given to Goering, who was named Minister without Portfolio; almost unnoticed, he became Prussia's Interior Minister as well in the general share out of posts.
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 Rudolf Diels
He joined the Prussian interior ministry in 1930 and was promoted to an advisory position in the Prussian police in 1932, targeting the suppression of political radicals, both Communists and Nazis.
When Göring was made minister for Prussia in 1933, replacing Karl Severing, he was impressed with Diels work and new commitment to the Nazi party.
He presented a affidavit for the prosecution at the Nuremberg trials but was also summoned to testify by Göring's defence lawyer.
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 Bioprofiles
Minister of the Interior (1933-43).  Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia.
His introduction to work associated with the concentration camps was under the tutelage of Theodor Eicke, who in 1933 was appointed as Commandant of Dachau concentration camp.
Commander-in-Chief of the Airforce.  Prime Minister of Prussia.
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 Hermann Wilhelm Goring Biography / Biography of Hermann Wilhelm Goring Main Biography
With the election of Hitler to the chancellorship in January 1933, Göring joined the Cabinet as minister without portfolio and, more importantly, became minister of interior in Prussia.
In the latter position he quickly brought the Prussian police under his control by co-opting SA troops and created the Nazi secret police, which he later turned over to the command of Heinrich Himmler for use in the Roehm purge of 1934.
In the fall of 1933 Göring became prime minister of Prussia and minister of air travel in the central government--an office he used for the illicit creation of a new air force whose commander in chief he officially became in 1935.
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 Service of Supply WWII Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Churchill was one of the truly great orators; his energy and his stubborn public refusal to make peace until Adolf Hitler was crushed were crucial in rallying and maintaining British resistance to Germany during the grim years from 1940 to 1942.
In 1928, Goebbels was elected to the Reichstag, and when Hitler seized power in 1933 he made Goebbels propaganda minister.
In 1946 Zhukov received command of the Soviet ground forces, but in 1947 he was demoted to command the Odessa military district.
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 Goering Biography
Hermann Goering was born in Rosenheim on 12 January 1893.
The son of a judge who had been sent by Bismarck to South-West Africa as the first Resident Minister Plenipotentiary, Goering entered the army in 1914 as an Infantry Lieutenant, before being transferred to the air force as a combat pilot.
Goering exploited the Reichstag fire - which many suspected that he had engineered - to implement a series of emergency decrees that destroyed the last remnants of civil rights in Germany, to imprison communists and Social Democrats and ban the left- wing press.
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 http://www.qando.net/ - It’s called history Ted. Look into it.
Hitler, however, could put Nazis in as the Minister of Defense and the Minister of the Interior.
Moreover, Nazi control of the Interior Ministry meant that German national police forces, indeed, the Republic's whole justice system, would be controlled by Nazis, a valuable asset that Papen, not the brightest of men, didn't understand.
This problem was overcome by Hermann Goering, who, as Interior Minister for Prussia at the time, named Hitler as a Prussian delegate to Bavaria, an act which automatically granted him the citizenship of Prussia, and, hence, of Germany.
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 The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 9
Thirdly, the position of Prussian Prime Minister which, next to that of the Reich Chancellor was always the most important in Germany during the period after the World War, was likewise to be filled by the person of Herr Von Papen.
But then I succeeded in becoming, without conditions attached, Prussian Minister of the Interior and thereby a political minister of the largest German state, for in the end Prussia was actually the place where the rise to internal power started.
Besides the ministers there were first of all -- taking Prussia as an example -- the administrative heads of the provinces, the official heads of administrative districts, the police commissioners, county heads (Landrate).
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 The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 16
My wish that Bruning should return to the old construction of Bismarck's, to be Reich Chancellor and at the same time Prime Minister of Prussia, in order to coordinate the policy of the greatest province with that of the Reich, was rejected by Bruning.
Von Neurath was an old diplomat; the Minister of the Interior, Gall, was an old administrative official; the Agricultural Minister was general director of great agricultural societies; the Finance Minister was formerly Ministerial Director in his Ministry; the Railroad Director, Eltz, had been president of the board of directors of a railroad, and so forth.
On 18 July 1932 the Reich Minister of the Interior decreed a general ban on demonstrations after, as you have already said, the ban on uniforms had been lifted for National Socialists on 16 June.
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