Matthias Erzberger
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Matthias Erzberger was a German Centre Party politician who served as the minister of finance of Germany from 1919 to 1920.
Erzberger in 1919
Painting depicting the signing of the armistice. Behind the table are Rear-admiral George Hope, Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss, Marshal Ferdinand Foch and General Maxime Weygand. In front of the table are Erzberger, Generalmajor Detlof von Winterfeldt, Alfred von Oberndorff and Ernst Vanselow. Behind them stands Captain Jack Marriot.
Erzberger and Minister Eduard David in Berlin, May 1919
Erzberger's birthplace in Buttenhausen is now a small museum.
Joseph Wirth
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Karl Joseph Wirth was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party who was chancellor of Germany from May 1921 to November 1922, during the early years of the Weimar Republic. He was also minister
Wirth c. 1920
Walther Rathenau, minister of Finance in the second Wirth cabinet, was assassinated by far-right extremists on 24 June 1922.
Wirth's grave in Freiburg