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Gustav Stresemann

Weimar's Greatest Statesman

By: Jonathan Wright

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Hardcover | 10 October 2002

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Gustav Stresemann was the exceptional political figure of his time. His early death in 1929 has long been viewed as the beginning of the end for the Weimar Republic and the opening through which Hitler was able to come to power. His career was marked by many contradictions but also a pervading
loyalty to the values of liberalism and nationalism. This enabled him in time both to adjust to defeat and revolution and to recognize in the Republic the only basis on which Germans could unite, and in European cooperation the only way to avoid a new war. His attempt to build a stable Germany as an
equal power in a stable Europe throws an important light on German history in a critical time. Hitler was the beneficiary of his failure but, so long as he was alive, Stresemann offered Germans a clear alternative to the Nazis. Jonathan Wright's fascinating new study is the first modern biography
of Stresemann to appear in English or German.

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A modern critical biography of Stresemann has been long awaited. Jonathan Wright has produced a work which satisfies high standards,... the result of many years' research using all available sources. `he abundant detail is balanced by a brilliant 30-page conclusion, pertinently summarising all aspects of Stresemann's influence' Eberhard Kolb, Allgemeine Zeitung `the first comprehensive biography in English of one of Germany's three greatest diplomats" as "an admirably old-fashioned, academic biography: lucidly and crisply written, it deftly bridges domestic politics and diplomacy." Schwarz concludes that Wright's "judicious work is indispensable for understanding both interwar diplomacy--one of the most important and complex subjects of modern history--and the German problem, a conundrum perhaps still with us.' Ben Schartz, The Atlantic Monthly `sympathetic and authoritative biographer...Wright provides a full and persuasive account of Stresemann's professionsal progression' THES `Writing with sound judgement and senstive interpretation, the author has created an impressive monument to Stresemann.' Eberhard Kolb, Allgemeine Zeitung `exceptional...elegantly-written book that persuasively makes the case for Stresemann's indispensibility to the poor old Weimar Republic.' Niall Ferguson, Sunday Telegraph, 1/12/02

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List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction	p. 1
'The Child is a father of the Man': 1878-1901	p. 8
'A hunger for power': Business and Politics, 1901-1914	p. 25
The Organization of Manufacturing Industry	p. 30
National Liberal Politics	p. 41
'For the greater, freer Germany of the future': War, 1914-1918	p. 66
War Aims	p. 68
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare	p. 76
Constitutional Reform	p. 82
The Crisis of July 1917	p. 87
For Victory and Reform	p. 96
Defeat and Rejection	p. 105
'We are and remain independent towards the Right and the Left': Accommodation and Opposition, October 1918-June 1920	p. 111
Lessons of Defeat: October 1918	p. 111
The Shock of Revolution	p. 115
A United Liberal Party?	p. 117
Opposition	p. 126
Finding the Middle Ground	p. 128
Anti-Semitism	p. 136
Independence towards the Left	p. 138
Independence towards the Right	p. 141
Preparing for Government	p. 144
Foreign Policy	p. 145
The Kapp Putsch	p. 149
The Elections of June 1920	p. 158
'The Latchkey to Power': Building a Coalition of the Centre, June 1920-December 1922	p. 162
Stresemann's Political Strategy	p. 163
Minority Government	p. 167
A Stresemann Government?	p. 177
'Objective Opposition'	p. 181
The Assassination of Walther Rathenau	p. 191
Towards the Great Coalition	p. 195
The Making of a Republican Statesman	p. 199
'All but political suicide': Ruhr Occupation and Chancellor, 1923	p. 202
The Ruhr Occupied	p. 202
Reich Chancellor	p. 212
The Stresemann Cabinets	p. 213
The Coalition	p. 217
The Abandonment of Passive Resistance	p. 217
On the Brink of Civil War	p. 220
A Second Chance	p. 223
Poincare Victorious	p. 226
The Return of the Crown Prince	p. 231
Dancing on a Volcano	p. 233
Intervention in Saxony: The End of the Great Coalition	p. 238
'I will not give in': Reichswehr Intrigue and Hitler Putsch	p. 244
An Independent Rhineland?	p. 251
'In the open battlefield': The Defeat of the Government	p. 253
'A gleam of light on the otherwise dark horizon': The Dawes Plan and the Road to Locarno, 1924-1925	p. 260
Appointment as Foreign Minister	p. 260
Stresemann versus Adenauer	p. 262
Revision of the Treaty of Versailles	p. 267
The Dawes Plan	p. 270
The Elections of May 1924	p. 273
'I hated all night'	p. 279
The Flight for the Dawes Plan	p. 283
The London Conference, July-August 1924	p. 286
The Drama of Ratification	p. 290
Disillusionment with Politics?	p. 292
Membership of the League of Nations?	p. 294
Bringing the DNVP into Government	p. 296
The Proposal for a Security Pact	p. 301
The Election of Hindenburg as Reich President	p. 307
The Security Pact and the Soviet Union	p. 310
Revision of the Polish Frontier	p. 313
Conflict over the Security Pact	p. 314
Towards Locarno	p. 320
Soviet Threat of Embarrassment	p. 322
Stresemann's Goals before Locarno	p. 324
Locarno and the League, 1925-1926	p. 330
The Locarno Conference	p. 331
'These donkeys': The DNVP Returns to Opposition	p. 339
The Second Luther Cabinet	p. 348
Deadlock Over Entry to the League	p. 351
The Treaty of Berlin	p. 354
Peaceful Revision	p. 359
Coalition Politics	p. 365
A Time for Optimism	p. 368
Entry into the League and Thoiry	p. 373
'A crisis of the parliamentary system'	p. 383
Stresemann and Secret Rearmament	p. 385
'Responsible realpolitik'	p. 387
Peaceful Revision in the Balance, 1927-1928	p. 389
Coalition with the DNVP	p. 393
The Priority of Peace	p. 396
The Consequences for Peaceful Revision	p. 400
The Politics of Foreign Policy	p. 401
The Receding Prospect of Frontier Revision	p. 408
Evacuation of the Rhineland and Revision of the Dawes Plan	p. 412
The Kellogg-Briand Pact	p. 415
The Formation of the Great Coalition	p. 418
'The tyranny of the Reichstag party'	p. 424
Foreign Minister of the Great Coalition	p. 428
1929: Stresemann or Hugenberg?	p. 443
The Committee of Experts	p. 443
The DVP and the Great Coalition	p. 445
The Political System in Crisis: Reflections and Plans	p. 454
The Young Plan	p. 461
Protection of Minorities and Frontier Revision	p. 465
A Franco-German Alliance?	p. 474
The Hague Conference	p. 479
Towards European Union?	p. 483
Preparing for Hugenberg and Hitler	p. 486
Conclusion	p. 492
Maps	p. 526
Bibliography	p. 529
Index	p. 553
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