Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner
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Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner

Posadowsky-Wehner, photographed by Nicola Perscheid before 1930.
Personal data
Date of birth03 June 1845
Place of birthGross-Glogau, Province of Silesia, Prussia
Date of death23 October 1932(age 87)
Place of deathNaumburg, Province of Saxony, Prussia
NationalityGerman
Political partyGerman National People's Party
Alma materUniversity of Berlin
University of Heidelberg
University of Breslau
OccupationLawyer
Secretary for the Treasury of German Empire
In office1 September 1893 - 1 July 1897
ChancellorLeo von Caprivi (1890 � 1894)
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1894 � 1900)
Succeeded byMax Franz Guido von Thielmann
Preceded byHelmuth von Maltzahn
Secretary of the Interior of German Empire
In office1 July 1897 - 24 June 1907
ChancellorChlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1894 � 1900)
Bernhard von Bülow (1900 � 1909)
Succeeded byTheobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
Preceded byKarl Heinrich von Boetticher

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Arthur, Count of Posadowsky-Wehner, Baron of Postelwitz ( , 3 June 1845 � 23 October 1932) was a German conservative politician and statesman. He served as Secretary for the Treasury (1893 � 1897), Secretary of the Interior, Vice Chancellor of Germany and Prussian Minister of State (1897 � 1907).

Born to Silesian nobility, the son of a judge, he studied law in Berlin, Heidelberg and Breslau and earned a doctorate in law in 1867. He subsequently acquired an agricultural property, and entered politics in 1871, when he became a member of the province government in Posen. In 1882 he became a member of the Parliament of Prussia, and was appointed Landeshauptmann of Posen in 1885.

He was the candidate of the German National People's Party for President of Germany in 1919, but lost to Friedrich Ebert.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Karl Heinrich von Boetticher 		Vice Chancellor of Germany
1897 - 1907		Succeeded by
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg

Finance Ministers of Germany

German Empire
(1871 �1918) German Empire		 Adolf von Scholz * Franz Emil Emanuel von Burchard * Karl Rudolf Jacobi * Baron Helmuth von Maltzahn * Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner * Max Franz Guido von Thielmann * Baron Hermann von Stengel * Reinhold Sydow * Adolf Wermuth * Hermann Kühn * Karl Helfferich * Count Siegfried von Roedern
Weimar Republic
(1918 �1933) DE		 Eugen Schiffer * Bernhard Dernburg * Matthias Erzberger * Joseph Wirth * Andreas Hermes * Rudolf Hilferding * Hans Luther * Otto von Schlieben * Hans Luther * Peter Reinhold * Heinrich Köhler * Rudolf Hilferding * Paul Moldenhauer * Heinrich Brüning * Hermann R. Dietrich
Third Reich
(1933 �1945) Nazi DE		 Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk
East Germany
(1949 �1990) GDR		 Hans Loch * Willy Rumpf * Siegfried Böhm * Werner Schmieder * Ernst Höfner * Uta Nickel * Walter Romberg * Werner Skowron
Federal Republic of Germany
(1949 �) DE		 Fritz Schäffer * Franz Etzel * Heinz Starke * Rolf Dahlgrün * Kurt Schmücker * Franz Josef Strauss * Alex Möller * Karl Schiller * Helmut Schmidt * Hans Apel * Hans Matthöfer * Manfred Lahnstein * Gerhard Stoltenberg * Theodor Waigel * Oskar Lafontaine * Hans Eichel * Peer Steinbrück * Wolfgang Schäuble

Interior Ministers of Germany

Imperial Interior Secretaries
(1871 �1918) German Empire		 Karl Hofmann * Karl Heinrich von Boetticher * Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner * Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg * Clemens von Delbrück * Karl Helfferich * Max Wallraf * Karl Trimborn
Weimar Republic
(1918 �1933) Weimar Republic		 Friedrich Ebert * Hugo Preuß * Eduard David * Erich Koch-Weser * Georg Gradnauer * Adolf Köster * Rudolf Oeser * Wilhelm Sollmann * Karl Jarres * Martin Schiele * Otto Geßler * Wilhelm Külz * Walter von Keudell * Carl Severing * Joseph Wirth * Wilhelm Groener * Wilhelm von Gayl * Franz Bracht
Nazi Germany
(1933 �1945) Nazi DE		 Wilhelm Frick * Heinrich Himmler * Paul Giesler * Wilhelm Stuckart
German Democratic Republic
(1949 �1990) GDR		 Karl Steinhoff * Karl Maron * Friedrich Dickel * Lothar Ahrendt * Peter Michael Diestel
Federal Republic of Germany
(1949 �) DE		 Gustav Heinemann * Robert Lehr * Gerhard Schröder * Hermann Höcherl * Paul Lücke * Ernst Benda * Hans-Dietrich Genscher * Werner Maihofer * Gerhart Baum * Jürgen Schmude * Friedrich Zimmermann * Wolfgang Schäuble * Rudolf Seiters * Manfred Kanther * Otto Schily * Wolfgang Schäuble * Thomas de Maizière



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