biography
pronunciation:
[noskuh]
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| lived:
| (1868–1946)
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| biography:
| German politician and journalist, born in Brandenburg/Havel, E Germany. He joined the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) and was a member of the Reichsrat (1906–18). As governor of Kiel he suppressed the sailors' revolt (Matrosenaufstand) in December 1918 in the name of the Reichsregierung and, as Reichswehrminister, a number of other rebellions/uprisings in early 1919 elsewhere within the Reich. He was forced to resign after the Kapp-Putsch of 1920 and became Oberpräsident of Hanover (1920–33). He was twice arrested, in 1939 and 1944. |
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