Dr. Herman Badt, Jewish Ministerial Director of the Prussian government and Prussian representative in the Federal Council, was among the scores of Socialist officials who were dismissed from their posts yesterday by order of Chancellor Franz von Papen, Reich’s Commissioner in Prussia.
Dr. Badt, despite his dismissal, continues as counsel for the dismissed Prussian cabinet in its petition to the Leipzig Supreme Court.
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