Carl Severing
German politician (1875-1952) · Germany · On the map · Politicians · Died at 77
Carl Wilhelm Severing was a German union organizer and Social Democratic politician during the German Empire, Weimar Republic and the early post-World War II years in West Germany.
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German Social Democrats in Zurich. Severing is in the back row, the second next to the sign.
Caricature of the bourgeois parties on the occasion of "Severing's entry into the Reichstag" (Bielefeld 1907)
First Reich Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils in the Prussian House of Representatives in Berlin. On the ministerial bench, from right to left, are Emil Barth, Friedrich Ebert, Otto Landsberg and Philipp Scheidemann.
Demonstration against the Kapp Putsch. The sign reads, "A quarter million participants". The effigies in the background are hanging beneath their names, "Kapp / Lüttwitz".
Revolutionary workers are taken away by the police in Eisleben during the central German uprising.
Otto Braun c. 1932. He was the longest serving Minister President of Prussia during the Weimar Republic.
Carl Severing in 1928About this person
He served as a Reichstag member and as interior minister in both Prussia and at the Reich level where he fought against the rise of extremism on both the left and the right. He remained in Germany during the Third Reich but had only minimal influence on reshaping the Social Democratic Party after World War II.
