Prussian coalition
The Prussian coalition refers to a government coalition of the state of Prussia in the 1920s.
From the November Revolution in 1918 to the Kapp Putsch , this coalition was led by the Social Democrat Paul Hirsch , then - with several months of interruption by a purely bourgeois cabinet in 1921 and by a months-long government crisis in early 1925 - always by the Social Democrat Otto Braun .
In terms of its composition, the Prussian coalition usually corresponded to the Weimar coalition , and from late 1921 to early 1925 the grand coalition . The Social Democracy ( SPD ) was also the ruling party in Prussia during the eight and a half years in which it was not involved in government in the Reich, and it always formed a coalition with the center , which participated in all the Reich governments at the same time and thus permanently attached the Social Democratic ministers tied the right-wing parties. From 1930 a rightward development and an alienation of the Center Party from the SPD began.
The Prussian coalition, without a parliamentary majority since the state elections on April 24, 1932 , but remained in office because no other coalition was formed, was removed from official business on July 20, 1932 by the Papen coup d'état (Prussian strike).