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Heinrich Brüning
Heinrich Aloysius Maria Elisabeth Brüning was a German Centre Party politician and academic, who served as the chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic from 1930 to 1932. His use of deflation in an attempt to combat the effects of the Great Depression in Germany increased unemployment and poverty and earned him the nickname of the “Hunger Chancellor".
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politics · Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932 · politician · economist · trade unionist · university teacher · political scientist · chancellor · also Heinrich Brüning, Heinrich Aloysius Maria Elisabeth Brüning, Brüning
Born 26 November 1885 · Died 30 March 1970 · Q155398
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2019· 2 entries
SWR: Heinrich Brüning stellt sich gegen Adolf Hitler
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SPIEGEL: Heinrich Brüning
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2017· 1 entry
welt.de: 30. März 1930: Heinrich Brüning wird Reichskanzler
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2011· 1 entry
Forbes: Angela Merkel, Meet Heinrich Bruning
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2007· 1 entry
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung: Heinrich Brüning (1885-1970) - Wissenschaftliche Dienste / Archiv für Christlich-Demokratische Politik
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1970· 1 entry
Died 1970-03-30.
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1951· 2 entries
Returned to Germany, settling in Cologne in West Germany, where he taught as a professor of political science at the University of Cologne until he retired in 1953
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To teach at the University of Cologne but again moved to the United States in 1955 and lived out his days in retirement in Vermont
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1938· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1938).
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1937· 1 entry
Became a visiting professor at Harvard University, and he was the Lucius N
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1934· 1 entry
Brüning was warned by friends of the imminent Night of the Long Knives
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1933· 2 entries
The American economist Irving Fisher developed the theory of debt deflation
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To help the Vatican negotiate with Germany
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1931· 2 entries
Plans for a customs union between Weimar Germany and the First Austrian Republic were shattered by French opposition
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Career landmark: Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (1931–1932).
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1930· 4 entries
Career landmark: Reich Minister of Finance (1930–1930).
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Replied to Aristide Briand's initiative to form a "United States of Europe" by demanding full equality for Germany, refusing offers of French financial assistance to help Germany's deteriorating economy
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Career landmark: Reich Chancellor in the Weimar Republic (1930–1932).
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Was appointed interim chancellor, just as the Great Depression took hold
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1929· 1 entry
After his election as leader of the Centre Party group in the Reichstag, his party's agreement to the Young Plan was made conditional on a guarantee of tax increases that would ensure a balanced budget
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1924· 1 entry
Was elected to the Reichstag, representing Breslau
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1923· 1 entry
Brüning was actively involved in organising the passive resistance in the "Ruhrkampf"
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1920· 1 entry
A post Brüning retained until 1930
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1915· 1 entry
Received a doctorate for his thesis on the financial, economic, and legal implications of nationalizing the British railway system
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1885· 1 entry
Born 1885-11-26.
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