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Gustav Stresemann

Weimar statesman who reconciled Germany with France.

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He shared the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize with French Prime Minister Aristide Briand for reconciling Germany and France.[1][2] According to Wright (2002), upon his death Stresemann was regarded as the individual who kept the political system's fragile equilibrium intact.[1]

Life and work

He completed his doctorate in January 1901 with a thesis on Berlin's bottled beer industry.[3][4] He was appointed chancellor and foreign minister on 13 August 1923 during a year of crises.[5][6] Germany was admitted to the League of Nations as a permanent council member in September 1926.[7][2] He remained foreign minister in seven successive governments until his death on 3 October 1929.[8][1]

During October 1925, Stresemann was instrumental in negotiating the pact signed at Locarno, through which Germany for the first time formally acknowledged its post-World War I western frontier, pledging peace with France and Belgium.[9][10]

What the cited sources add

The Locarno Pact text shows that Germany, Belgium, and France undertook to settle all disputes by peaceful means.[10] The Nobel Prize website confirms that Stresemann and Briand received the 1926 prize for their role in bringing about the Locarno Treaty.[2] The Sturm account records that hyperinflation began in June 1923 and that the Rentenmark replaced the old currency in November 1923.[11] Asmuss's account describes how the DVP's 1920 election poster expressed the party's objective of liberating the nation from the "red chains" of social democracy and communism.[12]

The same source indicates that Stresemann, acting as a "Vernunftrepublikaner" (a republican by reason), progressively guided the DVP toward an acceptance of the republic's parliamentary system.[12]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Gustav Stresemann" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Wright 2002, p. 5–6 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. "The Nobel Peace Prize 1926", nobelprize.org. facts only, no text reused. nobelprize.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Gustav Stresemann" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Wright 2002, p. 5–6; Hirsch, "Gustav Stresemann, 1878–1978", Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz GmbH.& Inter Nationes, 1978; Stresemann, "Die Entwicklung Berliner Flaschenbiergeschäfts. Eine wirtschaftliche Studie", R. F. Funke, 1901; Pohl 2015, p. 73 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Stresemann, "Die Entwicklung Berliner Flaschenbiergeschäfts. Eine wirtschaftliche Studie", R. F. Funke, 1901. facts only, no text reused. archive.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Gustav Stresemann" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Waller, "AQA History: The Development of Germany, 1871–1925", Oxford University Press, 2009 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Open Library record, ISBN 9781408503140 ("The Development Of Germany 18711925"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Gustav Stresemann" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Nobel Peace Prize 1926", nobelprize.org (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Gustav Stresemann" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Tooze 2006, p. 4–7; Tooze 2006, p. 4–7 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Gustav Stresemann" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Treaty of Mutual Guarantee between Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Italy; 16 October 1925 (The Locarno Pact)", avalon.law.yale.edu; Jonathan Wright, "Stresemann and Locarno" Contemporary European History, 4#2 (1995), pp. 109–131. online; Kimmich, "The Weimar Republic and the German-Polish Borders", The Polish Review, Autumn 1969, p. 37–45 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. "Treaty of Mutual Guarantee between Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Italy; 16 October 1925 (The Locarno Pact)", avalon.law.yale.edu. facts only, no text reused. avalon.law.yale.edu
  11. Sturm, "Kampf um die Republik 1919–1923", Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 23 December 2011. facts only, no text reused. bpb.de
  12. Asmuss, "Die Deutsche Volkspartei (DVP)", Deutsches Historisches Museum, 8 July 2011. facts only, no text reused. dhm.de

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Gustav Stresemann (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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