Joseph Wirth - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Weimar Coalition: Encyclopedia - Weimar Coalition
The Weimar Coalition is the name given to the coalition of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the German Democratic Party (DDP...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany
The German Centre Party (Deutsche Zentrumspartei or merely Zentrum), often called the Catholic Centre Party, was a Catholic political par...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Germans: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Germans - Politicians
List of Germans - Chancellors of Germany before 2nd World War. Gustav Stresemann, (1878-1929), chancellor and statesman of the Weimar ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gustav Radbruch: Encyclopedia Ii - Gustav Radbruch - Life
Radbruch studied law in Munich, Leipzig and Berlin. He passed his first bar exam ("Staatsexamen") in Berlin in 1901, and the following ye...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Weimar Timeline: Encyclopedia Ii - Weimar Timeline - Weimar Republic
Weimar Timeline - 1920. January 1920 The DAP grew to 190 members. February 4, 1920 Allies demand 900 Germans be handed over for war cr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - Between Coup D'etat And Authoritarian Democracy
Following Brüning's resignation, the Centre Party entered the opposition. Though they also opposed the National Socialists, their energi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heinrich Brüning: Encyclopedia Ii - Heinrich Brüning - Early Career
Born in Münster in Westphalia, he lost his father when he was one year old and thus his elder brother Hermann Joseph played a major part...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - In War And Revolution
The party supported the government upon the outbreak of World War I, but it also used the debates about war bonds to push for a repeal of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - In The Weimar Republic
The Centre Party, whose pragmatic principles generally left it open to supporting either a monarchical or republican form of government, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heinrich Brüning: Encyclopedia Ii - Heinrich Brüning - Exile And Later Years
Brüning fled Germany in 1934 to escape Hitler's political purges via the Netherlands and settled in the United Kingdom. In 1939 he becam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - Out Of The Tower!
The Kulturkampf had re-inforced the Catholic character of the Centre Party, but even during it Ludwig Windthorst had defended the party a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - The Soest Programme And The Founding Of The Centre Party
Growing anti-Catholic sentiment and policies, including plans for dissolving all monasteries in Prussia, made it clear that 'group' reorg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - The Soest Programme And The Founding Of The Centre Party
Growing anti-Catholic sentiment and policies, including plans for dissolving all monasteries in Prussia, made it clear that 'group' reorg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Weimar Timeline: Encyclopedia Ii - Weimar Timeline - End Of The Kaiserreich
Weimar Timeline - 1918. October 4, 1918 Prince Maximilian of Baden replaces Count Georg von Hertling as Chancellor of Germany October ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - Kulturkampf
In the age of nationalism, Protestant Germans, whether Conservative like Otto von Bismarck) or Liberal, accused the Centre of Ultramontan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heinrich Brüning: Encyclopedia Ii - Heinrich Brüning - After His Resignation
After his resignation, Brüning supported his party's determined opposition to his successor, the renegate Franz von Papen, and also of r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heinrich Brüning: Encyclopedia Ii - Heinrich Brüning - Hindenburg's Re-election And Brüning's Fall
In 1932 the Centre Party vigorously campaigned for the re-election of Hindenburg, calling him a "venerate historical personality" and "th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - The End Of The Centre Party
With the passing of the Enabling Act the Centre Party had in fact acquiesced in its own demise, as it had played the part Hitler had assi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - The Enabling Act
The government confronted the newly elected Reichstag with the Enabling Act that would have vested the government with legislative powers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - The Hitler Government And New Elections
Meanwhile Papen had formed an intrigue to oust his successor. He conferred with Hugenberg and industrial magnates and bankers and after a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - Refounding And Post-war History
After the war, the Centre party was refounded, but it was confronted with emergence the Christian Democratic Union, a new party formed as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - Origins Of Political Catholicism
The Centre Party belongs to the political spectrum of Political Catholicism that, emerging in the early 19th century after the turmoil of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heinrich Brüning: Encyclopedia Ii - Heinrich Brüning - The Brüning Administration And The Reichstag Parties
The Reichstag however rejected his measures within a month. President Hindenburg, already bent on reducing the influence of the Reichstag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heinrich Brüning: Encyclopedia Ii - Heinrich Brüning - Brüning's Appointment As Chancellor
In 1930, when the Grand coalition under the Social Democrat Hermann Müller collapsed, Brüning was appointed chancellor on March 29, 193...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - The Brüning Administration
In 1930 the Grand Coalition fell apart and the Centre's Heinrich Brüning, from the moderate conservative wing of the party, was appointe...   » Read the article