Franz von Papen
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Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen, Erbsälzer zu Werl und Neuwerk was a German Conservative and Nationalist politician, reactionary, diplomat, Prussian nobleman and General Staff officer. He served as the chancellor of Germany in 1932, and then as the vice-chancellor under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1934.
Papen in 1933
Image: Von Papen Unterschrift
Papen as the German Military Attaché for Washington, D.C. in 1915
Papen in New York City on 22 December 1915, after being declared persona non grata by the U.S. government and recalled to Germany
Reactionary
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In political science, a reactionary or a reactionist is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the status quo ante—the previous political state of society—which the person believes possessed positive characteristics that are absent from contemporary society. As a descriptor term, reactionary derives from the ideological context of the left–right political spectrum. As an adjective, the word reactionary describes points of view and policies meant to restore a status quo ante.
1932 poster of the French Radical Party (PRRRS) against the attempt by the Laval government to replace the two-round system, which favored the Radicals, with plurality ("The two-round suffrage will overcome the reaction.")
Warning against visiting reactionary websites in a Vietnamese internet café