Wilhelm Cuno
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Wilhelm Carl Josef Cuno was a German businessman and politician who was the chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923 for a total of 264 days. His tenure included the beginning of the occupation of the
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Cuno, left, with German President Friedrich Ebert (1923)
Friedrich Ebert
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Friedrich Ebert was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party who served as the first president of Germany from 1919 until his death in 1925.
Wilhelm Cuno
…He was the first chancellor in the Weimar Republic who was not a member of a party. Politically, he was quite far from the president, Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert, who selected him as chancellor. Cuno had a somewhat aloof position towards the Republic and its parliamentary system. He held the Reichstag in fairly…
Ebert in 1925
Ebert in 1890
Ebert with his wife Louise and their children, from left to right: Friedrich, Georg and Heinrich (Christmas 1898)
Paul von Hintze in 1915