Prussian coup of 1932
프로이센 쿠데타 (1932)
The event of 20 July 1932, when Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, at the request of Chancellor Franz von Papen, replaced the legal government of the Free State of Prussia with Papen as Reich Commissioner. A second decree the same day transferred executive power in Prussia to Defence Minister Kurt von Schleicher and restricted fundamental rights.
In depth
Papen used the hung Prussian parliament and the Altona Bloody Sunday as pretexts. The Social Democrat-led Prussian government did not resist with the police or the Reichsbanner but went to the Staatsgerichtshof, whose compromise ruling partially justified both sides and did not restore the legitimate government to power. The fall of the republic’s largest democratic bastion let the Nazis take over the Prussian state apparatus with ease in 1933.