biography
pronunciation:
[shtrayzeman]
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| lived:
| (1878–1929)
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| biography:
| German statesman and chancellor (1923), born in Berlin, Germany. Entering the Reichstag in 1907 as a National Liberal, he became leader of the Party, and later founded and led its successor, the German People's Party. He was briefly chancellor of the new German (Weimar) Republic, then minister of foreign affairs (1923–9). He pursued a policy of conciliation, helped to negotiate the Locarno Pact (1925), and secured the entry of Germany into the League of Nations (1926). He shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926. |
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