Gustav Stresemann

Gustav Stresemann (May 10, 1878 – October 3, 1929) was a German politician and statesman during the Weimar Republic and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Second Cabinet, October - November 1923

• Gustav Stresemann (DVP) - Chancellor and Foreign Minister
• Wilhelm Sollmann (SPD) - Interior Minister
• Hans Luther - Finance Minister
• Joseph Koeth - Economics Minister
• Heinrich Brauns (Z) - Employment Minister
• Gustav Radbruch (SPD) - Justice Minister
• Otto Gessler (DDP) - Defence Minister
• Anton Höfle (Z) - Postal Minister
• Rudolf Oeser (DDP) - Transport Minister
• Gerhard Graf von Kanitz - Food Minister
• Robert Schmidt (SPD) - Reconstruction Minister
• Johannes Fuchs (Z) - Occupied Areas Minister

Changes

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• November 3, 1923 - The Social Democratic Ministers, Sollmann, Radbruch, and Schmidt, resign. Sollmann is succeeded as Interior Minister by Karl Jarres (DVP). The others are not replaced before the ministry falls

Footnotes

• {{note|1}} Stresemann in an article for the Hamburger Fremdenblatt, 10 April 1922, quoted after Martin Broszat, 200 Jahre deutsche Polenpolitik, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1972, p. 220.
• {{note|2}} Stresemann in a letter to the German ambassador in London, quoted after Broszat (see above), p. 224.

Books

• Turner, Henry Ashby Stresemann and the politics of the Weimar Republic, Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, 1963.
• Wright, Jonathan Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman (2002).