biography
pronunciation:
[severing]
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| lived:
| (1875–1952)
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| biography:
| German politician, born in Herford, WC Germany. A member of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD), he became Reichsinnenminister (1928–30) and Prussian minister of the interior (1920–6, 1930–2). He offered no resistance to the Preußenputsch in 1932. After 1945 he was active in the reconstruction of the SPD. |
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