The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-06
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Germans Unable To Remem- Der Names Of All Who
 Served Republic

BERLIN, Jan. 5.-Germany's chan cellors have changed so often under the republic that few Germans can remember the names of all the men who have attempted to keep gov ernments together in the five years of democracy which have brought such troubled times to the German public. There have been nine differ ent chancellors under the democratic regime.
 In the 47 years which elapsed from the time Bismarck expanded Germany into an empire and became its first chancellor until the republic was de- ciarsd. there were only sisht chancel- lors.
 Bismarck himself served 1s years Ebefore he fell out with the de- throned kaiser. who 10 now in Hol- kCaprivi In 1890. Caprivi held office for four years and was succeeded by Prince Hohenlohs, who retained of- flee for six years. Prince Buelow then became chancellor for nine years. Won Bethmann- Hollweg took over the office in 1909 and left 1t teight years later.
 Dr. Michaelis was chancellor from July until November, 1917. Count Hertling took over the office then. and held 1t till September. 1913. He was succeeded by Prince Max of Baden. who was in office only a few weeks. Frederick Ebert. the pres- ent president of the Reich, became chancellor for two days. from Novem- Der to November II. 1918. He marked the transition into the demo- cratic period. After his two days of service commission of six socialists Ebert. Scheidemann and Landsberg of the majority party and Haase, Ditt- mann and Earth of the Independents took over the government and there was no regular cabinet until Febru- ary, 1919, when the national assem- ply met at Weimar and Philip Scheidemann became chancellor. He resigned the following June rather than sign the Versailles treaty. and Gustav Bauer took over the office for about year. Hermann Mueller became chancel- Tor In March. 1920, and remained in office three months.
 Inen Constantfn Fehrenbach. oI the Catnoltc party became chancellor
 and held the post for a year. Joseph
 Wirth. also of the Catholic party came into office in May, 1921, and re tired in November, 1922.
 pr. William Cuno took over the post or chancellor upon wirth re- tirement and held it till last August under, the trying situation brought about by the occupation of the RuhI py the French. and the efforts of the German government to defeat the French by passive resistance.
 The catastrophe financial collapse ana the decline of the mark to a point never before reached by any other great powers money forced pr. Cuno's retirement, and Dr. Gustav Stresemann attempted to patch ur what remained of the republic after the disastrous attempt to finance Fuhr resistance at the sacrifice oi the interests of the rest of the re- public.
 Stresemann held on till November with a coalition cabinet, but the food shortage and the mounting bread prices, Aogether with widespread un. employment and the clashes of au. thority between the Bavarian ano saxon governnfents and the Berlin central government. proved his un- doing and he made way for Dr. Will liam Marx, of the Catholic party, the present chancellor. Dr. Stresemann remains in the Marx cabinet as min. ister of foreign affairs.
 Of the nine men who have held the chancellorship under the republic four were social democrats, Ebert Scheidemann, Bauer and Mueller Three belonged to the Catholic party Fehrenbach, Wirth and Marx. Cuno was a non-parliamentary chancellor having been selected as the represen- tative of no party, and Stresemann held the chancellorship as a member of the peoples party.