If Otto Braun had had an atom of firmness

Otto Braun (Social Democrats) had been the minister president of Preußen since 1920, as the head of a surprisingly stable coalition of the democratic parties. Made an interesting contrast to the situation in the Reich. Earlier in 1932, the Nazis and Commies gained a "negative majority" though, which complicated things.

But when things went worse and worse towards the end, Braun had kind of a burnout, so to speak. Also, the poor fellow suffered from depressions.

On July 20th in 1932, chancellor Papen decided to strike (German: Preussenschlag). He wanted to depose the Prussian government and take power there for himself. So he invited Braun's deputy Carl Severing and others to the chancellery, telling them what he wanted. Initially Severing boasted that he wouldn't step back, unless Papen used brute force. 

Some hours later that day though, he had agreed with Papen about how to hand over the power, and yet some hours later, the police president of Berlin - accompanied by a single policeman - entered Severing's office, and he didn't resist at all.

The Catholic Centre party had had plans for resistance - moving the capital to Cologne, cooperating here and there with the Communists even. But to no avail.

Also, the Prussian government wasn't defenseless - their police was 90,000 men strong, almost as strong as the Reichswehr.

But what if Braun had been a bit healthier or so? Would it have been Papen instead who'd have had to step back? Or would things have become awry, with the Reichswehr fighting the Prussian police? What about the policemen who had been Nazis? (Sorry, no statistics available.) Would the Nazis have putsched, if the situation seems like a good opportunity? That way they'd have been in power six months earlier, but their government would have been stained, given that they had taken it illegally. I don't expect the Allies to invade the next day, but maybe they'd be more careful.