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Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann , 1878-1929, German statesman. A founder (1902) and director (until 1918) of the Association of Saxon Industrialists, Stresemann entered the Reichstag in 1907 as a deputy of the National Liberal party and represented the interests of big business. During World War I, he supported t... Read more
Locarno Pact
Locarno Pact 1925, concluded at a conference held at Locarno, Switzerland, by representatives of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The request of Gustav Stresemann for a mutual guarantee of the Rhineland met with the approval of Aristide Briand ; under... Read more
Aristide Briand
Aristide Briand , 1862-1932, French statesman. A lawyer and a Socialist, he entered (1902) the chamber of deputies and helped to draft and pass the law (1905) for separation of church and state. Made (1906) minister of education and minister of religion to execute the law, he was ejected from the So... Read more
Rhineland
Rhineland , Ger. Rheinland, region of W Germany, along the Rhine River. The term is sometimes used to designate only the former Rhine Province of Prussia, but in its general meaning it also includes the Rhenish Palatinate , Rhenish and S Hesse , and W Baden . (For a description, see Rhine .)... Read more
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles any of several treaties signed in the palace of Versailles, France. For the Treaty of Versailles of 1783, which ended the American Revolution , see Paris, Treaty of , 1783. In the Franco-Prussian War The Preliminary Treaty of Versailles of 1871 was signed at the end... Read more
Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prizes Nobel Prizes Year Peace Chemistry Physics Physiology or Medicine Literature 1901 J. H. Dunant Frédéric Passy J. H. van't Hoff W. C. Roentgen E... Read more
Germany
Germany , Ger. Deutschland, officially Federal Republic of Germany, republic (2005 est. pop. 82,431,000), 137,699 sq mi (356,733 sq km). Located in the center of Europe, it borders the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France on the west; Switzerland and Austria on the south; the Czech Republi... Read more

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Gustav Stresemann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Gustav Stresemann Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929) was one of Germany's outstanding diplomats...of postwar reconciliation and cooperation in Europe. Gustav Stresemann was born in Berlin on May 10, 1878, the son of a small businessman...
Stresemann, Gustav
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Stresemann, Gustav (1878–1929) German statesman. Stresemann was the outstanding politician of the Weimar Republic...disadvantageous terms imposed by the Treaty of Versailles . Stresemann negotiated Germany's entry into the League of...
Aristide Briand
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the German foreign minister Gustave Stresemann. This approach led to the Locarno Pact...powers. For their efforts Briand and Stresemann shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926...of Briand's Chamberlain's, and Stresemann's attempts to create a new Europe...
Hans Luther
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Hans Luther , 1879-1962, German statesman. As Gustav Stresemann 's minister of finance he aided Hjalmar Schacht in stabilizing...successive center-right coalition cabinets (1925-26). With Stresemann as his foreign minister, he negotiated the Locarno Pact in...
Locarno Pact
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The request of Gustav Stresemann for a mutual guarantee of the Rhineland met with the...of Aristide Briand ; under the leadership of Briand, Stresemann, and Austen Chamberlain , a series of treaties of mutual...
Ernst Mayr
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...zoology. His interest in birds had led him to the German ornithologist Erwin Stresemann, who induced him to make the switch to zoology. As his mentor, Stresemann had a great influence on Mayr's thinking as well as his career. Starting with...
Locarno, treaties of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...Europe. German entry to the League of Nations followed in 1926, while the key negotiators— Briand (France), Stresemann (Germany), and Austen Chamberlain (Britain)—continued to meet at the ‘Geneva tea-parties...
Treaty of Versailles
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...has been thought to have played an important part in the rise of National Socialism , or the Nazi movement. While Gustav Stresemann was German foreign minister, Germany by a policy of fulfillment succeeded in having some of the treaty terms eased. Reparations...
Rhineland
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...by French and Belgian forces from 1923 to 1925. Largely as a result of the efforts of the German foreign minister, Gustav Stresemann , the last occupation troops (who were French) withdrew from the Rhineland in June, 1930, five years before the terminal...
Briand, Aristide
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...cooperation and was one of the instigators of the Locarno Pact (1925), for which he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Gustav Stresemann in 1926. He was also one of the authors of the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), and favoured a form of European union.

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Stresemann, Gustav
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Stresemann, Gustav (b. 10 May 1878, d. 3 Oct. 1929) German Foreign Minister 1923–9; Chancellor of Germany 1923 Born in...
Briand, Aristide
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...s harsh treatment of Germany after the VERSAILLES PEACE SETTLEMENT . Working closely with Austen CHAMBERLAIN and Gustav Stresemann, the British and German Foreign Ministers, his greatest achievements were the LOCARNO Pact (1925) and the KELLOGG-BRIAND...
Nobel Peace Prize
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...d. 1937) UK Charles Gates Dawes (b. 1865, d. 1951) USA 1926 Aristide Briand (b. 1862, d. 1932) France Gustav Stresemann (b. 1878, d. 1929) Germany 1927 Ferdinand Buisson (b. 1841, d. 1932) France Ludwig Quidde (b. 1858, d. 1941...
Locarno, Treaties of
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...as a permanent member of its council. The main figures at the Locarno Conference were Austen Chamberlain , Gustav Stresemann , and Aristide Briand , the latter two receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the treaty in 1926.
anti-Semitism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Many of the Republic's most ardent supporters, most affluent business leaders, and many influential politicians (such as Stresemann and Rathenau ) were Jewish, and became easy scapegoats. What was most striking about the German Third Reich under Hitler...
Nazi Party (NSDAP/ Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei)
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...was refounded in 1925. It was unable to make substantial gains in the following years during the relative stability of the Stresemann era, but in the severe economic crisis which resulted in a total of 3.2 million unemployed by January 1930, many desperate...
Chamberlain, Sir (Joseph) Austen
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Secretary in 1924. His main aim was to encourage France to adopt a more conciliatory stance towards Germany, in order to assist Stresemann in his aim to revise by peaceful means the Treaty of Versailles . Together with Dawes , Chamberlain succeeded in rescheduling...
Ruhr district
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...but Germany's support for the passive resistance brought the country to financial ruin and thus had to be called off by Stresemann . After World War II, an international Ruhr Commission (1949–53) was set up to oversee German production of...
Weimar Republic
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Bavaria right-wing extremists (including HITLER and LUDENDORFF ) unsuccessfully tried to restore the monarchy. Gustav Stresemann succeeded in restoring confidence and in persuading the USA to act as mediator. The Dawes Plan adjusted reparation payments...
Aimée, Anouk
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Spain (Huntington) (as Elena Vargas); Les Mauvaises Rencontres (Astruc) 1956 Nina (Jugert) (as Nina Iwanowa); Stresemann (Braun) 1957 Tous peuvent me tuer (Anyone Can Kill Me ) (Decoin); Pot-Bouille (The House of Lovers ) (Duvivier...

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Gustav Stresemann. Weimar's Greatest Statesman
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; Wright, Jonathan. Gustav Stresemann. Weimar's Greatest Statesman...subject. Wright believes that Stresemann's conversion from the annexationist...for this thesis. It shows that Stresemann, from humble background, had...
Could he have saved Weimar? German history.('Gustav Stresemann: Weimar Politician and Statesman')
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/14/2002; 700+ words ; ...s great might-have-beens GUSTAV STRESEMANN, Germany's foreign minister, died...outside Germany. Aristide Briand, Stresemann's ally in the Franco-German rapprochement...said, "Order a coffin for two." Stresemann's premature death from a stroke...
Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's greatest statesman: Jonathan Wright looks at the career of the statesman who might have steered Germany safely through the Weimar era.
Magazine article from: History Today; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; GUSTAV STRESEMANN BECAME Chancellor of Germany in August...the army wavering in its loyalty and Stresemann's own party far from united behind...crusade of the League powers against it, Stresemann also concluded the Treaty of Berlin...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1929: Stresemann's Legacy
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 10/13/2004; 283 words ; ...in German history was closed with the death of Dr. Gustav Stresemann. Although he filled a prominent role on the stage of politics...vital factor in American history for only six years. When Stresemann assumed the Chancellorship on that fateful day of August 13...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 11/18/1994; ; 156 words ; ...Jerusalem Post 11-18-1994 Referring to Susan Hattis Rolef's review of Kissinger: A Biography (October 28), Gustav Stresemann was German chancellor in 1923, but from 1923 to 1929 he was foreign minister, not chancellor, as stated in the review...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1929: Stresemann Stands Firm
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 6/26/2004; 260 words ; International Herald Tribune 06-26-2004 BERLIN: Dr. Stresemann, speaking with all his old fire and aggressiveness, declared firmly in the Reichstag today [June 24] that Germany would permit...
The man who might have stopped Hilter
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 11/23/2002; ; 700+ words ; GUSTAV STRESEMANN: WEIMAR'S GREATEST STATESMAN by...0198219490 When war broke out in 1914 Stresemann accused Britain of forging an alliance...Calais into a `German Gibraltar'. Stresemann supported his country's resort in...
A Concise History of Ornithology.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Wilson Bulletin; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...longer, out-of-print, 1951 book by Stresemann, (translated into English in 1975...that he included. One advantage of Stresemann's book is his scholarly use of footnotes...endnotes, which Walters' book lacks. Stresemann also explains that Emperor Fredrick...
Adventures of a hybrid birder
Magazine article from: Natural History; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...than sixty. During that year, Erwin Stresemann, director of the Berlin Museum, conducted...the better-known kinds. Such was Stresemann's reputation that his opinion was...his fellow ornithologists. But was Stresemann correct in striking off almost twenty...
The Bismarck Myth: Weimar Germany and the Legacy of the Iron Chancellor.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...wing of the political spectrum. Gustav Stresemann, a moderate conservative politician...German League, however, criticized Stresemann's policies and even branded him a coward. While Stresemann sought to use the Bismarck myth in support...