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Franz Lipp
Franz Antoni Lipp (9 February 1855, Karlsruhe – 18 March 1937, Florence) was a German lawyer and politician who served as Deputy of Foreign Affairs of the Ernst Toller Government of the Bavarian Socialist Republic. During his brief government post, he was noted for his eccentric behavior, notably because of his diplomatic telegram to Vladimir Lenin and Pope Benedict XV mentioning the disappearance of the ministry's "key to the toilet" and his attempts to declare war on Switzerland and Kingdom of Württemberg, Württemberg. Life before the German Revolution Franz Lipp was born on February 9, 1855, in Karlsruhe. In the 1880s, Lipp became the son in law of , one of the co-founders of the German People's Party. During his early adult life, he was a journalist for the Stuttgart Observer, the German People's Party's newspaper. In 1888 he became the editor-in-chief of the '. Lipp ran for election to the Landtag of the Württemberg in the Grand Bailiwick of Heilbronn as the candidate of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. It is also a former capital of Baden, a historic region named after Hohenbaden Castle in the city of Baden-Baden. Located on the right bank of the Rhine near the French border, between the Mannheim/ Ludwigshafen conurbation to the north and Strasbourg/Kehl to the south, Karlsruhe is Germany's legal center, being home to the Federal Constitutional Court (''Bundesverfassungsgericht''), the Federal Court of Justice (''Bundesgerichtshof'') and the Public Prosecutor General of the Federal Court of Justice (''Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof''). Karlsruhe was the capital of the Margraviate of Baden-Durlach (Durlach: 1565–1718; Karlsruhe: 1718–1771), the Margraviate of Baden (1771–1803), the Electorate of Baden (1803–1806), th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
