page_title: Hans Adam Dorten
hierarchical_section_title: Hans Adam Dorten
caption_attribution_description: Left to right: Josef Friedrich Matthes, Hans Adam Dorten, Joseph (Pierre Joseph Isidoor) Smeets (25-6-1859 - 26-9-1929). Front page of the Flemish magazine Pallieter (1922-1928). All front pages were designed and illustrated by Jos De Swerts (1890-1939).
context_page_description: Hans Adam Dorten was a German career lawyer who in 1919 became a separatist leader in the militarily occupied Rhineland, following German defeat in the First World War.
  The period was a confused one during which political objectives were not always firmly fixed, nor clearly set out, but it is understood that Dorten's preference was for a Rhineland separated from "protestant" Prussia, and economically more closely aligned with France. At the end of 1923, a final attempt to establish an independent Rhenish state having failed, he escaped to Nice in France: here he resumed his legal career and worked on his memoirs.
context_section_description: Hans Adam Dorten (10 February 1880 – April 1963) was a German career lawyer who in 1919 became a separatist leader in the militarily occupied Rhineland, following German defeat in the First World War.
  The period was a confused one during which political objectives were not always firmly fixed, nor clearly set out, but it is understood that Dorten's preference was for a Rhineland separated from "protestant" Prussia, and economically more closely aligned with France.   At the end of 1923, a final attempt to establish an independent Rhenish state having failed, he escaped to Nice in France: here he resumed his legal career and worked on his memoirs.
caption: Matthes, Dorten and Smeets 
  (Jos De Swerts [nl], 1923)
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