MINISTER ARRESTED
-MISAPPROPRIATING JjUNDS
OTHER INSTANCES
BERLIN, March 25. Dr. Gunther .Gcrekc, Nationalist member of the Cabinet and the Eeieh 's Commissioner for Employment, who was arrested at the instance of Captain Goering, Minister in Charge of the Police, is accused. of misappropriating altogether £60,00 d funds of the Union of German Communes, of which he is chairman.
He was originally given the post by General yon Schleicher, who/ was attracted to him by his comprehensive scheme for relieving unemployment. Ho sat with other Ministers in the Bciehstag during Herr Hitler's speech and then returned to his department, where ho was arrested by the political police.
Horr Severing, the Socialist member of the Eeichstag who was arrested outsido the building, has been released on condition that he does not evade further interrogation. It is stated that he has been questioned as to the destination of £100,000 which he and Herr Braun, ex-Premier of Prussia* aro accused by tho Nazis of taking from the Prussian Treasury for party purposes when he was Socialist Minister of the Interior.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19330327.2.74
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 7
Word Count
176MINISTER ARRESTED Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in