“All the questions which to-day preoccupy the German people can be transformed into as many vexations for the Entente by a skilful orator before the League of Nations.”
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Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Ernst Stresemann was a German statesman during the Weimar Republic who served as chancellor of Germany from August to November 1923 and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929. His most notable achievement was the reconciliation between Germany and France, for which he and French Prime Minister Aristide Briand received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926. During a period of political instability an…
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politics · Chancellor of Germany in 1923 · politician · diplomat · head of government · author · member of parliament · foreign minister · also Gustav Stresemann, Gustav Ernst Stresemann, Stresemann, Gustav, Stresemann
Born 10 May 1878 · Died 3 October 1929 · Q103955
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Chamberlain had never been our friend. His first act was to attempt to restore the old Entente through a three-power alliance of England, France and Belgium, directed against Germany. German diplomacy faced a catastrophic situation.
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2026· 5 entries
“Chamberlain had never been our friend. His first act was to attempt to restore the old Entente through a three-power alliance of England, France and Belgium, directed against Germany. German diplomacy faced a catastrophic situation.”
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“The renunciation of a military conflict with France has only a theoretical significance, in so far as there is no possibility of a war with France.”
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“He was inspired in that hour by God to say what was felt by the German people. His words, spoken under Fichte”
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Time: GERMANY: Again Stresemann
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2024· 1 entry
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2022· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Gustav Stresemann: The Crossover Artist
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2017· 1 entry
dw: Gustav Stresemann and the Weimar Republic
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1929· 10 entries
Died 1929-10-03.
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“We must become so strong and must so ruthlessly weaken our opponents that no enemy will ever dare to attack us again. To achieve this a modification of frontiers in the west as in the east is essential.”
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“The Government must not insist too much on the fact that Germany will integrally fulfil the conditions of the peace treaty. For all parties have been unanimous in considering that the treaty is unfulfillable.”
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“Great Germany can only be created on a republican basis.”
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“We are not continuing the war for the sake of theoretical plans of conquest. It will and must bring the necessary guarantees for Germany's future, which cannot consist in a League of Nations by the grace of Wilson, but only in real guarantees. I close with the words of Hindenburg: "The times are hard, but victory is certain.”
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“Nearly the entire Reichstag, including the Social Democrats, agrees that we must not allow ourselves to be deprived of the weapon of the U-boat war.”
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“The question of Belgium must not be detached from the complex of the Western questions as a whole. Belgium is a most valuable pledge in our hands.”
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“The restoration of German vitality is not guaranteed by the status quo ante. It will also be necessary to make territorial changes; don't let us hamper our statesmen with assertions to the effect that the German people do not want this.”
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“We also concur with the Reich Chancellor's program as regards the Flemish people. However, the Belgian question also has an important political aspect. If Belgium is not to become a glacis for our enemies again, then not only must the status quo ante be precluded, but Germany's military, political and economic supremacy must be guaranteed.”
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Spoke positively of the idea of European integration to form a united political and economic counterweight against the United States
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1928· 3 entries
Oversaw Germany's participation in the Kellogg–Briand Pact, in which the signatory states promised not to use war to resolve international conflicts
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When Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Strong supported the development of the Young Plan
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Stresemann's poor health worsened after the mainstream national conservative parties lost seats to the SPD in the 1928 German federal election
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1926· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for their crucial role in bringing about the Locarno Treaty.
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1926).
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1925· 1 entry
Which confirmed Germany's postwar western borders, guaranteed peace with France, and led to Germany's admission to the League of Nations a year later
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1923· 5 entries
Stresemann was a Freemason initiated in the Masonic lodge Frederick the Great in Berlin in 1923.
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Career landmark: Reich Chancellor in the Weimar Republic (1923–1923).
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Career landmark: German Foreign Minister (1923–1929).
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Career landmark: Chancellor of Germany (1923–1923).
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Career landmark: Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (1923–1929).
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1919· 1 entry
Stresemann emphasized that Germany should try to regain its great-power status by leveraging the continued global economic influence and creditworthiness of its industry, pursuing peaceful economic expansion, and establi
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1917· 1 entry
Stresemann succeeded him as the party leader
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1916· 1 entry
Visited Constantinople and learned about the extent of the Ottoman Empire's Armenian genocide
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1907· 2 entries
Was elected to the Reichstag as a deputy for the National Liberal Party
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Was elected to the Reichstag, where he soon became a close associate of party chairman Ernst Bassermann
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1906· 1 entry
Was elected to the Dresden town council
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1903· 1 entry
Married Käte Kleefeld (1883–1970), daughter of a wealthy Jewish Berlin businessman, and the sister of Kurt von Kleefeld, the last person in Germany to be ennobled (in 1918)
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1902· 1 entry
Stresemann founded the Saxon Manufacturers' Association
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1898· 1 entry
Stresemann left the University of Berlin, transferring to the University of Leipzig so that he could pursue a doctorate
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1878· 1 entry
Born 1878-05-10.
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