22 Facts About Gustav Noske

Gustav Noske was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party.

Gustav Noske served as the first Minister of Defence of the Weimar Republic between 1919 and 1920.

Gustav Noske was born on 9 July 1868 in Brandenburg an der Havel, Prussia.

Gustav Noske was the son of the weaver Karl Noske was born on 1838 and and the manual labourer Emma Noske.

In 1884, Gustav Noske joined the Social Democratic Party and he became a union member.

In 1892, Gustav Noske was elected chairman of the Brandenburg SPD.

Gustav Noske married Martha Thiel at Brandenburg in 1891.

From 1897 to 1902, Gustav Noske was politically active at the local level and worked as an editor at social democratic newspapers in Brandenburg and Konigsberg.

Gustav Noske was known as a reformist, one of those in the SPD who wanted to achieve their political goals within the existing system, and as someone who was not much interested in fundamental theoretical debates.

Gustav Noske supported the war loans, but he argued in favour of a stronger political position for the Reichstag.

In that function, Gustav Noske helped to shed light on the business practices involved and to expand the authority of the parliament.

In October 1918, Gustav Noske became a member of the leadership of the SPD Reichstag group.

Max von Baden and his successor as chancellor, Friedrich Ebert, who was a close personal friend of Gustav Noske's, were pleased with Gustav Noske's achievement.

Gustav Noske ordered the rebellion quashed, and Noske, who was in charge of the Army and Navy, used both regular forces and Freikorps units to end the uprising.

Previously, Gustav Noske had personally ordered that Liebknecht's telephone line be monitored and Liebknecht's every movement be reported to Pabst.

On 28 February 1920 Gustav Noske, following orders of the Military Inter-Allied Commission of Control, which oversaw Germany's compliance with the Treaty, dissolved the Freikorps Marinebrigaden "Ehrhardt" and "Loewenfeld".

Gustav Noske was Governor of the Province of Hanover from 1920 on.

Gustav Noske became more conservative and supported Paul von Hindenburg in the elections for Reichsprasident in 1925 and 1932.

Gustav Noske spent seven months in the camps before being transferred to a regular prison.

Gustav Noske was freed by advancing Allied troops from a Gestapo prison in Berlin on 22 April 1945.

Gustav Noske died in Hanover on 30 November 1946 from a stroke while preparing for a lecture tour of the United States.

Gustav Noske has been called "one of the most forceful and at the same time controversial personalities of his time".