biography
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| lived:
| (1879–1956)
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| biography:
| German politician, born in Freiburg im Breisgau, SW Germany. A member of the Reichstag (1914–18, 1920–33), he was appointed finance minister of Baden after the November revolution of 1918. He became Reich finance minister (1920–1) and chancellor (1921–2), and led the left wing of the Catholic Zentrum party. Reich minister for home affairs (Reichsinnenminister), he later emigrated to Switzerland (1933–48). As co-founder and chairman of the Bund der Deutschen für Einheit, Frieden und Freiheit (1953) he advocated a policy of rapprochement towards the USSR. |
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