Papen cabinet

Cabinet of Franz von Papen
19th Cabinet of Weimar Germany
1 June 1932 – 17 November 1932 (until 3 December 1932 as caretaker government)
Members of the cabinet
Date formed	1 June 1932 (1932-06-01)
Date dissolved	3 December 1932 (1932-12-03) (6 months and 2 days)
People and organisations
President	Paul von Hindenburg
Chancellor	Franz von Papen
Member party	German National People's Party
Status in legislature	Minority Presidential Cabinet 37 / 608 (6%)
Opposition parties	Nazi Party Social Democratic Party Communist Party of Germany Centre Party Bavarian People's Party German State Party
History
Election	July 1932 federal election
Legislature term	6th Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Predecessor	Second Brüning cabinet
Successor	Schleicher cabinet

The Papen cabinet, headed by the independent Franz von Papen, was the nineteenth government of the Weimar Republic. It took office on 1 June 1932 when it replaced the second Brüning cabinet, which had resigned the same day after it lost the confidence of President Paul von Hindenburg.

Papen's cabinet, made up of right-wing independents and members of the German National People's Party (DNVP), was a continuation of the presidential cabinets that had begun under Heinrich Brüning. It governed using emergency decrees issued by Hindenburg that bypassed the participation of the Reichstag. In the Papen government's most dramatic move, Hindenburg allowed Papen to oust the elected government of the state of Prussia and name himself Prussian Reich commissioner, an action that was a significant step in the weakening of the Weimar Republic's democratic foundations.

In November 1932, following the second Reichstag election in less than a year, Hindenburg lost faith in Papen. Papen's cabinet formally resigned on 17 November 1932, but it continued in office in a caretaker capacity until Hindenburg replaced it on 3 December with the cabinet of his close aide General Kurt von Schleicher.^[1]