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Joseph Wirth

Personal data
Date of birth6 September 1879
Date of death3 January 1956(age 76)
Political partyCatholic Centre Party
Chancellor of Germany
In office10 May 1921 - 14 November 1922
Succeeded byWilhelm Cuno
Preceded byKonstantin Fehrenbach

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Karl Joseph Wirth, known as Joseph Wirth, (6 September 1879 Freiburg im Breisgau - 3 January 1956 Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1921 to 1922. Along with his foreign minister, Walther Rathenau, Wirth set out to follow a policy of "fulfillment" with respect to Germany's reparations in order to show that Germany was incapable of payment.

Only 41 years old when he took office, he was the youngest Chancellor of Germany to date. He is perhaps best known for his speech in front of the Reichstag after the assassination of Walther Rathenau by rightist extremists in 1922. Wirth famously proclaimed "The enemy is on the right!". He received the Stalin Peace Prize in 1955 for his anti-fascist positions.

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kypost.com--“We had a real special emphasis and high priority placed on getting out of the gate better this week,” CovCath coach Dave -Wirth- said. ... - Date : Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:31:04 GMT+00:00
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Record-Searchlight---Joe Wirth-, president of the Mount Shasta Trail Association, said the trail finalizes more than a decade of planning and volunteer work. ... - Date : Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:02:03 GMT+00:00
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NorthJersey.com--In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. -Joseph's- RC Church, 120 Hoboken Rd., East Rutherford, NJ 07073. CARLSTADT-Joan C. Trause (nee -Wirth-) of ... - Date : Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:23:33 GMT+00:00
Richard M. Ney 1923 - 2010 - Great Bend Tribune Tweet this news
Great Bend Tribune--He was preceded in death by a sister, Dolores -Wirth- of Claflin, and two brothers, Michael (deceased as an infant) and Milton Ney of Claflin. ... - Date : Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:17:59 GMT+00:00
A new place for Saratoga Springs city police to train - The Saratogian Tweet this news
The Saratogian--At a ceremony Thursday morning, Spychalski handed keys for the room to Mayor Scott Johnson, who handed them to Public Safety Commissioner Richard -Wirth-. ... - Date : Fri, 21 May 2010 09:27:33 GMT+00:00
Two city baseball players named All-State - Arizona Daily Sun Tweet this news
Arizona Daily Sun---...- infielder -Joe- Mesa. Three more players, Sinagua seniors Kevin -Wirth- and Robbie Ingram and Coconino senior Trevor Kriesel, were named to the second team. ... - Date : Mon, 17 May 2010 12:21:28 GMT+00:00
Society reclaims pioneer cemetery - Nebraska City News Press Tweet this news
Nebraska City News Press--A donation of $12400 from the -Wirth- Foundation provided a fence for the triangular cemetery, where Hughs' marker still lies flat. ... - Date : Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:43:09 GMT+00:00

Political offices
Preceded by
Konstantin Fehrenbach
Chancellor of Germany
1921 - 1922
Succeeded by
Wilhelm Cuno
Preceded by
Friedrich Rosen
Minister of Foreign Affairs
1921 - 1922
Succeeded by
Walther Rathenau
Preceded by
Walther Rathenau
Minister of Foreign Affairs
1922
Succeeded by
Hans von Rosenberg
Preceded by
Carl Severing
Minister of the Interior
1930 - 1931
Succeeded by
Wilhelm Groener


Chancellors of Germany

German Empire
(1871 �1918)
Otto von Bismarck * Leo von Caprivi * Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst * Bernhard von Bülow * Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg * Georg Michaelis * Georg von Hertling * Prince Maximilian of Baden
Weimar Republic
(1919 �1933)
Philipp Scheidemann * Gustav Bauer * Hermann Müller * Konstantin Fehrenbach * Joseph Wirth * Wilhelm Cuno * Gustav Stresemann * Wilhelm Marx * Hans Luther * Wilhelm Marx * Hermann Müller * Heinrich Brüning * Franz von Papen * Kurt von Schleicher
Third Reich
(1933 �1945)
Adolf Hitler * Joseph Goebbels
Federal Republic
(1949 �)
Konrad Adenauer * Ludwig Erhard * Kurt Georg Kiesinger * Willy Brandt * Helmut Schmidt * Helmut Kohl * Gerhard Schröder * Angela Merkel

Foreign Ministers and Foreign Secretaries of Germany -

German Empire
(1871 �1918) German Empire
Thile * Balan * B.E. v. Bülow * Radowitz * Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst * Limburg-Stirum * Busch * Hatzfeld zu Trachenberg * H. v. Bismarck * Bieberstein * B. von Bülow * Richthofen * Tschirschky-Bögendorff * Schoen * Kiderlen-Waechter * Jagow * Zimmermann * Kühlmann * Hintze * Solf * Brockdorff-Rantzau
Weimar Republic
(1918 �1933) DE
Brockdorff-Rantzau * Müller * Köster * Simons * Rosen * Wirth * Rathenau * Rosenberg * Stresemann * Curtius * Brüning * Neurath
Nazi Germany
(1933 �1945) DE
Neurath * Ribbentrop * Seyss-Inquart * Schwerin von Krosigk
German Democratic Republic
(East Germany) (1949 �1990) GDR
Dertinger * Ackermann * Bolz * Winzer * O. Fischer * Meckel * de Maizière
Federal Republic of Germany
(since 1949) DE
Adenauer * Brentano * Schröder * Brandt * Scheel * Genscher * Kinkel * J. Fischer * Steinmeier * Westerwelle

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

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

The First Müller Cabinet � 27 March 1920 to 21 June 1920

Hermann Müller (Chancellor, SPD) * Erich Koch-Weser (DDP) * Adolf Köster (SPD) * Andreas Blunck (DDP) * Joseph Wirth (Z) * Robert Schmidt (SPD) * Andreas Hermes (Z) * Alexander Schlicke (SPD) * Otto Gessler (DDP) * Johannes Bell (Z) * Gustav Bauer (SPD) * Johannes Giesberts (Z) * Eduard David (SPD)

The Fehrenbach Cabinet � 25 June 1920 to 4 May 1921

Konstantin Fehrenbach (Chancellor, Z) * Rudolf Heinze (DVP) * Walter Simons (independent) * Erich Koch-Weser (DDP) * Joseph Wirth (Z) * Ernst Scholz (DVP) * Andreas Hermes (Z) * Heinrich Brauns (Z) * Otto Gessler (DDP) * Wilhelm Groener (independent) * Johannes Giesberts (Z) * Hans von Raumer (DVP)

The Second Müller Cabinet

Hermann Müller (Chancellor, SPD) * Gustav Stresemann (DVP) * Julius Curtius (DVP) * Carl Severing (SPD) * Erich Koch-Weser (DDP) * Theodor von Guérard (Z) * Rudolf Hilferding (SPD) * Paul Moldenhauer (DVP) * Robert Schmidt (SPD) * Hermann Dietrich (DDP) * Rudolf Wissell (SPD) * Wilhelm Groener (independent) * Georg Schätzel (BVP) * Adam Stegerwald (Z) * Joseph Wirth (Z)



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