The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-06
VON HERTL|NG DIES
 IN BAVARIA AFTER
 A BRIEF ILLNESS
Former Imperial Chancellor of Germany Was Most Learned Hun Leader
 Since 1871
By Associated Press

| oJ NSSVSiatSu Fiese
 Copenhagen, January 5. Count George F. Won Hertling, the former imperial German chancellor, died Saturday night at Ruhpolding, Bavaria. He had been ill for six days. ! Count George F. Won Hertling was considered the most learned man of all the men called to the chancellor ship of Germany since 1871. He had won for himself scholars reputa- tion before he entered political life, and up to 1912, when he became Ba- varia's minister-president, he had combined educational and literary work with his political activities. Von Hertling was appointed imperial Ger man chancellor in October, 1917, sue ceeding Dr. 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 warm thanks for the "self-sacrificing faithfulness" with which Won Hertling had served the country.
 Won Hertling was born in August, 1S43 in Darmstadt, of a well known i family. He passed through the gym nasium, or high school, of his home city, studied philosophy and history at Munster. Munich and Berlin and re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Philoso. phy in 1864. Later he visited Italy and studied the dogmatic history of the
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 teacher of philosophy in the University of Bonn He was we'll known as a writer on Catholicism and political sociology.
 PARTY LEADER FOR YEARS
 Count Won Hertling was member 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 1909 after the death of Count Hompesch. During the chancellorship of Count Won Buelow he entrusted Won Hertling, whom he considered an able and resourceful dip lomat, with negotiations with the vati- can. Von Hertling also was often the semi-official intermediary between his party and the government.
 In the latter months of his occu- pancy of the chancellorship Won Hert- ling was assailed by the socialists in the Reichstag and the German news papers, the socialists charging that he had entered the chancellorship with the understanding that he would speak for the whole of the German people but that he had gone over to the Junk@rs arc represented iGeas that were obsolete. The press generally at tackled the chancellor as a result of the increasing frictions between the Berlin and Vienna governments. The feeling of the newspapers was intensi- fled when the chancellor early in Sep tember said the government saw no possibility of approving a bill for gen eral equal suffrage as it came from the Prussian lower house. The workers unions also turned against the chancel- Tor, accusing the government of being responsible for lack of food and of putting the interests of the nonpro- ducing classes above those of the peo- pie.
 In his last speeches before the Reich stag Von Hertling dwelt on the pos- abilities of peace being brought about. These addresses were characterized by the newspapers of allied countries as
 peace feelers" and even were attacked by German writers and politicians as insincere or untruthful.