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Wilhelm Marx
Wilhelm Marx was a German judge, lawyer, and politician who twice served as chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic, from 1923 to 1925 and again from 1926 to 1928. He also briefly held the position of Minister-President of Prussia in 1925. A leading figure in the Centre Party, he served as its chairman from 1922 to 1928. With a total tenure of three years and 73 days, he was the longest-s…
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politics · Chancellor of Germany, 1923–1925, 1926–1928 · politician · judge · jurist · minister · also Wilhelm Marx, Marx
Born 15 January 1863 · Died 5 August 1946 · Q77183
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1946· 1 entry
Died 1946-08-05.
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1933· 1 entry
Under Nazi Germany, Marx was charged in the trial of the People's Association for Catholic Germany, an organisation which he had chaired, but the charge against him was dropped in 1935
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1932· 2 entries
Resigned his seat in the Reichstag and retired
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Marx worked with various civic organisations
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1927· 1 entry
Successfully brought Germany into the League of Nations
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1926· 3 entries
Career landmark: Reich Chancellor in the Weimar Republic (1926–1928).
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Career landmark: Reich Minister of Justice (1926–1926).
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Career landmark: Chancellor of Germany (1926–1928).
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1925· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister President of Prussia (1925–1925).
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1923· 1 entry
Career landmark: Reich Chancellor in the Weimar Republic (1923–1924).
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1921· 1 entry
Marx became the head of the Centre Party's Reichstag parliamentary group on 27 September 1921 and, on 17 January 1922, party chairman
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1919· 2 entries
To the Weimar National Assembly that drafted Germany's new constitution and then in 1920 to the Republic's Reichstag where he served until not long before the Nazi takeover
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To the Weimar National Assembly that drew up the Weimar Constitution
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1911· 1 entry
Founded a Catholic school organisation in Düsseldorf to fight against the secularisation of the German school system
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1907· 1 entry
Became the chairman of the Düsseldorf Centre Party and in 1910 presided over the Augsburg Catholics Day
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1899· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of Landtag of Prussia (1899–1918).
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1894· 1 entry
Became a judge at Elberfeld, in 1904 state court judge (Landgerichtsrat) at Cologne, in 1907 superior state court judge (Oberlandesgerichtsrat) at Düsseldorf, in January 1921 state court president (Landgerichtspräside
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1888· 1 entry
Passed the second state exam for the Prussian civil service and began working as an assessor in Cologne and Waldbröl and later at the land registry in Simmern
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1863· 2 entries
Born 1863-01-15.
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In Cologne to the Catholic school rector Johann Marx (1822–1882) and his wife, Gertrude (1826–1909)
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