Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-07
Nine ChancellOrs
In Germany Under
Democratic Regime


Berlin, Dec. ia. P. by MaiD-
Germany's chancellors have changed
SO often under the republic, that few
Germans can remember the names of
all the men who have attempted to
keep governments together in the
five years of democracy which have
brought such troubled times to the
German public, There have been
nine different chancellors under the
democratic regime.
In the AZ years which elapsed from
the time Bismarck expanded Ger
| many into an empire and became it's
| first chancellor until the republic
was declared, there were only eight
| chancellors.
Bismarck himself served 10 years
. before he fell out with the dethroned
! kaiser who is now in Holland, and
made way for General Won Caprivi in
| 1890. Caprivi held office for four
years and was succeeded by Prince
Hohenlohe who retained Office for
| six years. Prince Beulow then be-
came chancellor for nine years. Won
| Bethmann- Hollweg took over the
office in 1909 and left it eight years
| later.
DIR. Michae!is was chancellor from
July until November. 1917. Count
Hertling took over the office then,
| and held it till September. 1918. He
was succeeded by Prince Max of
/ Baden who was in Office only few
/ weel;s Friedrich Hebert, the present
president of the Reich. became chan
cellor for two days. from November
| 9 to November II, 1918. He marked
| the transition into the democratic
! period. After his two days OF service
! a commission of six socialists; Ebert
Schiedemann and Landsberg of the
ma iority party and Haase. Dittmann
and Barth of the Independents, took
/ over the government and there was
no regular cabinet until February,
1919. when the national assembly met
| Mt 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 a year.
Hermann Muellar became chan
celIor in March. 1920. and remained
| in office three months.
Then Constantin Fehrenbach. OF
! the Catholic party became chancellor
and held the post for year. joseph
Wirth. also of the Catholic party.
came INTO oIlCe III A"-~'
retired in November, l922
Dr William Cuno took over the
most of chancellor upon Wirth's re-
! tirement and held it till last August
under the trying situation brousht
| sbout nv the occupation of the Ruhr
INV the French, and the efforts oil Tue
| German government to defeat the
French Ivy passive resistances..
The catastrophe financial collapse
and the decline of the mark TO q
noint never before reached by any,
| ether great powers money forceu
Dr Cuno's retirement. and Dr. Gus
tax StresemanH attempted to patch
nm what remained of the repunhc
after the disastrous attempt 10 m
ance Ru11r resistance at the sacrihce
of the interests of the rest OIL the re-
| public. az, >-o,.o,,ber
: With n coalition cabinet. but the 1000
shortage and the mounting brea1
nrices together with widespread
,,nemployment and the clashes OF
| authority between the BavarIan ana
| Saxon governments and the Beriih
! central Government. proved his un
! doing and he made way for Dr. W u
| lion Marx. of the Catholic party. tne
nresent chancellor. DR.. Stresemahh
remains in the Marx cabinet as MIN
lister Of foreign affairs. ~,
| or the nine men who have helo
the chancellorship under the repup-
lie four were social danocrats. Ener''
| Scheidemann. Bauer and Mueiler'
| Three belonged to the Catholic party
| Fehrenbach, Wirth and Marx Iuho
was a nom parliamentary chancellor
having been selected as the repre-
sentative of no party, and Strese-
! mann held the CHARACTERISTIC as a
member of the Peoples party.
Largest passenger carrying river
, steamboats, in the world ply between
| New York and Albany, and the COM
pany has prepared to larry $1,000 ex-
cursionists in six boats each way