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    Ludwig Kaas (23 May 1881 – 15 April 1952) was a German Roman Catholic priest and politician of the Centre Party during the Weimar Republic. He was instrumental...
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    laws, and invoke article 48. The Centre Party shifted right-ward after Ludwig Kaas became its leader. The Nazis had increased their share of the vote in...
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    diplomatic and many social activities. He was aided by the German priest Ludwig Kaas, who was known for his expertise in Church-state relations and was a...
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    to the Centre. When Kaas requested a broad outline of his government's objectives, Hitler used the questionnaire presented by Kaas to declare the talks...
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    Party chair Ludwig Kaas, who arrived in Rome shortly before him, negotiated a draft with him on behalf of Pacelli. The concordat prolonged Kaas' stay in...
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    1939 as workmen dug a tomb for Pope Pius XI. Over the next ten years, Ludwig Kaas oversaw an archaeological excavation of the pagan mausoleum complex under...
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  • architect Hugo Munthe-Kaas (1922–2012), Norwegian intelligence agent and resistance fighter Jon Kaas, professor and scientist Ludwig Kaas (1881–1952), German...
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    chancellor, Centre Party chairman Ludwig Kaas asked Brüning to replace him, but the former chancellor declined and asked Kaas to stay. Brüning supported his...
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    Swing 10.8pp 2.1pp 4.6pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Ludwig Kaas Alfred Hugenberg Heinrich Held Party Centre DNVP BVP Last election 11...
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    negotiated with the Centre Party's chairman, Ludwig Kaas, a Catholic priest, finalizing an agreement by 22 March. Kaas agreed to support the Act in exchange...
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    Swing 4.2pp 1.2pp 2.6pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Ludwig Kaas Alfred Hugenberg Heinrich Held Party Centre DNVP BVP Last election 12...
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    Politics, doctor thesis of 21 February 1929, pp. 36 seqq. Georg May (1981). Ludwig Kaas: der Priester, der Politiker und der Gelehrte aus der Schule von Ulrich...
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    Swing 19.0pp 2.9pp 1.2pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Ludwig Kaas Alfred Hugenberg Heinrich Held Party Centre DNVP BVP Last election 11...
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    arrested). Hitler had obtained the votes of the Centre Party, led by Prelate Ludwig Kaas, by issuing oral guarantees of the party's continued existence and the...
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    issue of the concordat prolonged Kaas's stay in Rome, leaving the Centre Party without a chairman, and on 5 May Kaas finally resigned from his post. The...
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    Brooklyn Hans am Ende (1864–1918), painter Ludwig Kaas (1881–1952), Catholic priest and politician (Zentrum) Ludwig von Westphalen (1770 –1842), father-in-law...
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    Reichskonkordat on 20 July 1933. From left to right: German prelate Ludwig Kaas, German Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, representing Germany, Monsignor...
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    Papen had promised party chairman Ludwig Kaas he would not accept any appointment. After Papen broke his pledge, Kaas branded him the "Ephialtes of the...
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    officially banned on 23 June 1933) Opposition leaders Opposition leaders Ludwig Kaas (30 January 1933 – 5 July 1933) Ernst Thälmann (30 January 1933 – 18...
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    Hitler verbally promised Centre party leader Ludwig Kaas that Hindenburg would retain his power of veto, Kaas announced the Centre Party would support the...
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  • Benedictine priest who served as a member of the Frankfurt Parliament in 1849. Ludwig Kaas was a priest of the Weimar Republic. In 1919 he was elected to the Weimar...
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    January 1922 – 8 December 1928 Preceded by Karl Trimborn [de] Succeeded by Ludwig Kaas Member of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic) In office 24 June 1920 – 10...
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  • institutionalized church or sacerdotal cult. In 1881 in Frankfurt am Main, Ludwig Büchner established the German Freethinkers League (Deutscher Freidenkerbund)...
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    Christianity are irreconcilable". Following the failure of the pro-Nazi Ludwig Muller to unite Protestants behind the Nazi Party in 1933, Hitler appointed...
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  • woman to lead archaeological excavations at the Vatican, succeeding Ludwig Kaas, and completed the excavations on Saint Peter's tomb, identifying finds...
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  • Inquisition. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-81719-1. Koschorke, Klaus; Ludwig, Frieder; Delgado, Mariano (2007). A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa...
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    Ludwig Kaas, the exiled leader of the German Catholic Zentrum party, in Rome, hoping to use the Pope as an intermediary to contact the British. Kaas put...
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    signed on 20 July 1933 in Rome. (From left to right: German prelate Ludwig Kaas, German Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, Secretary of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical...
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    Reichskonkordat. On behalf of Cardinal Pacelli, his long-time associate Prelate Ludwig Kaas, the out-going chairman of the Centre Party, negotiated first drafts...
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  • July 1933 in Rome. From left to right: German prelate and politician Ludwig Kaas, German Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, Papal Secretary of Extraordinary...
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