Carl Severing
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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. He served as a Reic
Carl Severing in 1919
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.
The Law for the Protection of the Republic was the name of two laws of the Weimar Republic that banned organisations opposed to the "constitutional republican form of government" along with their prin
Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau, whose assassination by right-wing extremists in 1922 led to passage of the First Law for the Protection of the Republic
Legal scholar Dr. Gustav Radbruch (SPD), Germany's minister of justice when the First Law for the Protection of the Republic was drawn up and implemented