Georg Michaelis was the imperial chancellor of the German Empire for a few months in 1917 during the First World War. He was the first commoner to hold the post, though the Supreme Army Command under
Georg Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Hertling, from 1914 Count von Hertling, was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party. He was foreign minister and minister president of Bavaria, then imperial
Georg Michaelis
…Michaelis sought to place the blame on the socialists in the Reichstag. The Reichstag in turn forced his resignation as chancellor in favor of Georg von Hertling. He made an attempt to retain his role as minister-president of Prussia but was unsuccessful. From 1918 to 1919, Michaelis headed the provincial…