Evening star., 1933-01-30
HITLER APPOINTED
REICH CHANCELLOR
Compromise Cabinet Chosen
BY Won Hndenburg in
Naming Nazi.
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head Of the government. Then Hitler
was taken to the President.
One OF those who was there described
the meeting.
The venerable field marshal was kind
illness itself, he said, when Col Won
berg and several others proposed Hitler
for chancellor.
Yes: yes, indeed" the President
Then he rose. towering above the
others, grasped Hitler's hand and FORM
ally made the appointment.
The word went about quickly and
when Hitler got back to his hotel the
streets were jammed
His own friends waited to shake his
hand, and there were hundreds Of
others, cheering as they lifted their
hands in the Nazi salute. Hitler
grinned and waved. He went into the
hotel for luncheon with Herr Frick
and his other associates.
Political observers generally agreed
that the new cabinet will encounter
opposition from organized labor, but
that is to be expected. The Centrist
Reichstag members went into confer
ence to consider their position.
The Reichstag Council Of Elders,
meeting this afternoon. adopted a
motion by the National Socialist men,
bers to reconvene the Reichstag on or
before February 7.
The Cabinet Personnel.
The cabinet personnel includes:
Chancellor-Hitler.
Vice chancellor and Prussian COM
misar-Franz Won Papen.
Foreign minister - Konstantin Won
Neurath.
Finance-Lutz Schwerin Won Krosick.
Interior-William Frick.
Defense-Gen. Werner Won Blomberg
Economics and agriculture - Alfred
Hugenberg.
Labor-Franz Seldte
Posts and transportation-Eltz Won
Ruebenach.
Minister without portfolio-Hermann
Goering.
(unfilled).
Employment commissioner - Guen-
ther Gereke.
Goering, who has been speaker Of the
Reichstag, will be charged with the
commiSsionership for aviation and the
commissionership for the Prussian
ministry of interior. Goering and Frick
are National Socialists.
Hitlers first cabinet session was
called for S pm. today. The cabinet,
as composed, is one Of determined men
who have behind them, in addition to
the Reichswehr tarmy). "Hitler's Storm
Troops" and Seldte's Steel Helmeters. y
Should the Catholic Center and Ba-
varian parties. which are allies, decline
60 ~ no tra
elections will be held with the slogan
For Hindenburg and Hitler"
Reichstag Support Unlikely.
That the cabinet would have the sup
port of majority Of the Reichstae
seemed unlikely because the Centrists
and Bavarians insisted upon constitu-
tional guarantees from Hitler which
virtually would make him innocuous
Hitler insisted on important posts for
his Nazis and also desired to have the
storm troops become an official body
along the lines of the Italian Fascist
militia.
OF the new cabinet members, the
only hitherto relatively unknown was
Gen. Won Blomberg All others figure
prominently in recent German history
Gen. Won Blombserg was born on
0cpLeLlOCI &. 1910, al Oldi SAiO,
and has had regular military career
which landed him on the general staff
in 1911. During the war he was gen.
After the revolution he remained with
the Reichswehr. rising to the rank OF
lieutenant general. in charge Of the
1st Division at Koenigsberg
Hitler's National Socialist party
failed to win majority Of seats in two
Reichstag elections last year and he
ran a formidable second to Won Hin
denburg for the presidency. but he still
had the largest following in the Par
Lament.
He needed The backing of DR.. Ludwig
Kaas's Centrist party and its ally. the
Bavarian peoples party. as well as the
small Nationalist following of Vor
Papen, to achieve the required backing
He had a good chance of adding the 81
Nationalist votes to his Nazis 1876. but
the Centrists and Bavarians, with 80
were wary of him because Of his threat
to discard constitutional government.
Socialist meetings in Mannheim anc
Berlin and a Communist gathering in
Dresden heard warnings against re-
vival of Won Papens former policies
Karl Hoeltermann. Socialist leader
blamed the Presidents son, Oscar. fol
the fall of the Bruening and Won
Schleicher regimes.
At least 100000 persons assembled I
front of the former imperial place here
in a demonstration against Hitler ano
Won Papen. The Republican news
paper Montag Morgen said today the
Nationalists sought by prolonged blcker-
ing to force Won Hindenburg to resign
and open the way for q return OF the
monarchy.
Thirty-flve persons were arrested dur
ing disorders in various parts OF Berlin
The Republican demonstration against
the Nazis and junkerism was described
by some as the swan song" Of the
former group, but speakers asserted the
working class was ready to fight fol
its constitutional rights"
However, mention Of Won Papen a.
the man who took away the dole
for former royal chamberlains
and even for Hermine Hohenzollerin'
brought a chorus of boos. Princess
Hermine is the Kaisers second wife. tt
whom he was married since his exile ir
Holland.
Demonstrations of thousands ol
Reichsbanner troops added to the
threats against the Hitler forces.
Berlin Press Divided.
Newspaper comment on Hitler's ap-
pointment varied from the enthusiasm
of the Right to the rage Of the So
cialist press.
This historic day marks the birth
of a new Germany" said Der Tag, and
the Nachtausgabe rejoiced that the
President at last had taken the action
he refused to take last year.
The Boersenzeitung praised the
President for awaiting an appropriate
moment. The Industrialist Deutsche
Allgemeine Zeitung, less enthusiastic
described the appointment as leap in
the dark, "a bold and hazardous de-