Franz von Papen
Franz von Papen
Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen zu Köningen; 29 October 1879 – 2 May 1969) was a German nobleman, General Staff officer and politician. He served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933–34. He belonged to the group of close advisers to President Paul von Hindenburg in the late Weimar Republic. It was largely Papen, believing that Hitler could be controlled once he was in the government, who persuaded Hindenburg to appoint Hitler...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 October 1879
CountryGermany
Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.
It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.
The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.
Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.
But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera.
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.
It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.
Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution.
We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.