Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-06
VON HERTL|NC
FORMER GE RMAN
PREMIER, DEAD
Was Considered Most Learned
Man Called to Chancellor
ship Of Germany; Stood
High as Scholar,
10y .ossaa .ousa.L srse,. LEASED w,ss,


Copenhagen, Jan. (hy the Asso-
ciated Press) Count George f. Won
Hertling, former imperial German
chancellor, died Saturday night at
Ruhpolding, Bavaria. He had been
i'll for six days.
Count George Il, Won Hertling vas
considered the most learned man of
all those called to the chancellorship
of Germany since 1871 He had won
for himself scholars reputation be-
ffo4E lr1 '-4ite,Sa pobtics,i life and up
to 1912, when he became Bavarian
minister president. he had combined
educational and literary work with
his political activities. Won Hertling
was appointed imperial German chan
cellor in october. 1917. succeeding
IDr. George Michaelis. He resigned in
the fall of last year and the then
Emperor william conferred upon him
the Order of the Black Eagle and
his war IN thanks for the self sacri-
ficing faithfulness" with which Won
Hertling had served the country.
Was Highly Educated.
Won Hertling was born In August
1S4S, liz Darmstadt, of a well known
| family. He passed through the gym
nasium, or high school, of his home
city, studied philosophy and history
at Munster. Munich and Berlin and
received the degree OF Doctor oi
| Philosophy in 1864. Later he visited
| Italy and studied the dogmatie his
| tory in the University of Bonn. lie
was we'll known as a writer on Ca
Z, tholicism and political sociology.
II EY.fr n htar
of the reichstag continuously from
1875 to 1912 with the exception of the
period of 1890 to 1896 He became
| the clerical party leader in 1903 after
the death of Count Hompesch Dur
| ing the chancellorship of Count vor
| BueIow he entrusted Won Hertling
whom he considered an able and re-
| sourceful diplomat, with negotiations
with the Vatican. Won Hertling also
was often the semi-officia interme-
! diary between his party and the gov
! ernment.
Assailed by Socialists.
/ In the latter months of his occu-
nancy of the chancellorship vor
| Hertling was assailed by the social
| lists in the reichstag and the German
| newspapers. the socialists charging
| that he had entered the chancellor
| shin with the understanding that ne
would speak for the whole of the
German people but that he had gone
over to the junkers and represented
| ideas that were obsolete. The press
generally attacked the chancellor as &
result of the increasing friction be
tween the Berlin and Vienna govern
ments. The feeling of the newspapers
was intensified when the chancellor
early in September said the govern
ment saw no possibility of applying
| bill for general equal suffrage as i
came from the Prussian lower house
The workers unions also turned
against the chancellor, accusing thu
| government of being responsible fol
lack of food and of putting the In
terests of the producing Interests
above those of the people.
| In his last speeches before th'
reichstag, Won Hertling dwelt on tht
possibilities of peace. These addresses
we're characterized by the newspaper
of allied countries as peace feelers
| and even were attacked by German
writer's and politicians as insincere ol
untruthful.