Generalstaatskommissar in Bavaria

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The Generalstaatskommissar in Bavaria was an extraordinary emergency commissioner’s office endowed with sweeping authoritarian powers to govern Bavaria during periods of political crisis in the early Weimar Republic.

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instanceOf extraordinary emergency commissioner’s office
state of emergency authority
appliesTo Bavarian State Government
surface form: Bavarian government
appliesToJurisdiction Bavaria
authorityOver Bavarian ministries
Bavarian police
local authorities in Bavaria
country Bavaria
surface form: Free State of Bavaria
countryDuringExistence Germany
endTime Weimar Republic era
governingSystem parliamentary democracy under stress
governmentalDomain executive governance
internal security
public order
hasCharacteristic authoritarian
crisis-driven
extraordinary
hasMainFunction govern Bavaria during periods of political crisis
hasPower direct police and security forces in Bavaria
intervene in administration of Bavarian ministries
issue decrees with force of law in Bavaria
override ordinary constitutional procedures in Bavaria
suspend certain civil liberties in Bavaria
sweeping authoritarian powers
hasPurpose maintain public order in Bavaria
protect the Bavarian state against perceived internal and external threats
stabilize government during political upheaval
hasTitleInGerman Generalstaatskommissar
historicalRegion Bavaria
isEmergencyMeasure yes
isFormOf dictatorial emergency commission
state of emergency governance
languageOfWorkOrName German
legalBasis Bavarian emergency legislation of the early Weimar Republic
locatedIn Munich
partOf Weimar Republic politics
surface form: Weimar Republic political system
relatedTo Bavarian State Government
surface form: Bavarian state government

Reichstag Fire Decree
surface form: Weimar Republic emergency powers
scope executive authority over Bavarian state institutions
public administration in Bavaria
security and policing in Bavaria
startTime early 1920s
triggeredBy political crisis in Bavaria
threats to public security in Bavaria
typeOfJurisdiction subnational (state-level) authority
usedInContext early Weimar-era political violence
post–World War I instability in Germany
revolutionary and counterrevolutionary conflicts in Bavaria
usedInPeriod early Weimar Republic

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Gustav von Kahr positionHeld Generalstaatskommissar in Bavaria