Members of the Weimar National Assembly - Ludwig Quidde, Friedrich Ebert, Gustav Stresemann, Alfred Hugenberg, Ludwig Kaas, Matthias Erzberger (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Ludwig Quidde, Friedrich Ebert, Gustav Stresemann, Alfred Hugenberg, Ludwig Kaas, Matthias Erzberger, Wilhelm Marx, Hermann Muller, Joseph Wirth, Eugen Bolz, Philipp Scheidemann, Wilhelm Sollmann, Gustav Bauer, Friedrich Naumann, Hugo Haase, Otto Braun, Paul Lobe, Otto Nuschke, Gustav Noske, Wilhelm Kulz, Constantin Fehrenbach, Louise Schroeder, Albert Vogler, Johannes Hoffmann, Marie Elisabeth Luders, Otto Wels, Hans Vogel, Hugo Sinzheimer, Eugen Schiffer, Eduard David, Rudolf Heinze, Adam Stegerwald, Gertrud Baumer, Andreas Blunck. Excerpt: .) (May 10, 1878 - October 3, 1929) was a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic. He was co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926. Stresemann's politics defy easy categorization. Today, he is generally considered one of the most important leaders of Germany and a staunch supporter of democracy in the fragile Weimar Republic. Further, he is noted as one of the first to envisage European economic integration. Arguably, his most notable achievement was reconciliation between Germany and France, for which he and Aristide Briand received the Peace Prize. Stresemann was born on May 10, 1878 in the Kopenicker Strasse area of southeast Berlin, the youngest of seven children. His father worked as a beer bottler and distributor, and also ran a small bar out of the family home, as well as renting rooms for extra money. The family was lower middle class, but relatively well-off for the neighbourhood, and had sufficient funds to provide Gustav with a high-quality education. Stresemann was an excellent student, particularly excelling in German literature and poetry. In an essay written when he left school, he noted that he would have enjoyed becoming a teacher, but he would only have been qualified to teach languages or the..