Key Figures In German History

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GUSTAV STRESEMANN

Work: Chancellor (Aug. - Sept. 1923), Foreign minister (1923-1929)

Spouse: unknown

Nationality: German

Birth: 1878

Death: 1929

Other: Believed the only way for Germany to make progress in EU was to accept ToV > better chance of being accepted in the eu community and receiving desperate economic help, called off passive resistance, believed germany was superior, pro-monarchy / anti-weimar republic

Organisations/clubs/groups: DVP, University of Berlin/Leipzig, German-American Economic Association, Pan-German Deutscher Kolonialverein (German Colonial League)

Achievements: Co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize 1926, elected leader of DVP in 1906 (28yrs + youngest deputy in the Reichstag), Germany accepted into eu community > france sponsered germany's entrance into the LoN, intro the Rentenmark, intro policies to drastically cut gov. spending and raise revenue, involved in the creation of the Dawes Plan, neg. the Locarno Treaty (acceptance of new Franco-German border) (1925), involved in the Young Plan > reduced reparation payments

Interests: History (esp. Napoleon + Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), economics

Home town: Berlin

Religion: Protestant