Minister-Presidents of the Laender during consultations in the Reich Chancellery. Left side, from left Prussian Prime Minister Otto Braun, Prussian State Secretary Paul Goehre, Reich Food Minister Andreas Hermes, Mecklenburg State Minister Johannes von Reibnitz, Hessian State Minister Mathias, Ministerialdirektor Sachs. Right side, from left: Luebeck's Senator Dr. Adolf Neumann-Hofer, Hamburg's Senator Schramm, Hamburg's Mayor Diestel, Mecklenburg Ministerialdirektor Tischbein, Mecklenburg Minister Hugo Wendorff, State Secretary Fritz von Haniel-Niethammer, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs Walter Simons, Reich Chancellor Constantin Fehrenbach, State Secretary Albert, Reich Minister of Economy Ernst Scholz, Privy Councilor Brecht, Envoy of Baden, his excellency Friedrich Franz Joseph Nieser, the Oldenburg Minister Richard Tantzen, the Oldenburg Minister Scheer, Deputy Press Chief Privy Heilbronn, Legation Councilor Reinhardt.