page_title: Treaty of Rapallo (1922)
hierarchical_section_title: Treaty of Rapallo (1922)
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Vertrag von Rapallo In Rapallo, einem kleinen Ort bei Genua, wurde zwischen Deutschland und Sowjetrußland der Rapallo-Vertrag geschlossen. Auf diesem Foto Reichskanzler Dr. Joseph Wirth, (zweiter von links) mit der Delegation Sowjetrußlands Leonid Krasin, Georgy Chicherin und Adolf Joffe (weiter von links nach rechts) Abgebildete Personen: Wirth, Joseph Dr.: Reichskanzler, Reichsfinanzminister, Reichsaußenminister, Reichstagsabgeordneter (MdR), Zentrum, Mitglied der Nationalversammlung, Deutschland Krassin, Leonid Borissowitsch: Botschafter in Großbritannien, Sowjetunion Tschitscherin, Georgi W.: Diplomat, Volkskommissar des Äußeren, Sowjetunion (GND 118666185) Joffe, Adolf Abramowitsch: Gesandter in Deutschland, Sowjetunion Information added by Wikimedia users.English: Characters who participated in the Treaty of Rapallo of 1922, which sanctioned the peace treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union. In the photo: Joseph Wirth, Leonid Krasin, Georgy Chicherin and Adolf Joffe. Italiano: Personaggi che parteciparono al trattato di Rapallo del 1922, che sancì il trattato di pace fra Germania ed Unione Sovietica. Nella foto: Joseph Wirth, Leonid Krasin, Georgij Vasil'jevič Čičerin ed Adolf Joffe. Español: El canciller alemán, Joseph Wirth, en el centro, conversando con la delegación soviética en la Conferencia de Génova de 1922 que llevó a la firma del Tratado de Rapallo entre los dos países. De derecha a izquierda: Adolf Joffe, embajador soviético en Alemania, Georgi Chicherin, ministro de exteriores de la Unión Soviética y Leonid Krasin, embajador en Gran Bretaña.
context_page_description: The Treaty of Rapallo was an agreement signed on 16 April 1922 between the German Republic and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic under which each renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and World War I.
  The two governments also agreed to normalise their diplomatic relations and to "co-operate in a spirit of mutual goodwill in meeting the economic needs of both countries". Secretly the two sides established elaborate military cooperation, while publicly denying it.
  It was a spinoff of the Genoa Conference, which included Germany and Russia. The talks had broken down when France demanded that the Soviets assume the prewar debt incurred by the Russian Empire and on immediate reparations by the Germans to the USSR. The Treaty was negotiated by Georgi Chicherin, foreign minister of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, and his German counterpart Walther Rathenau. Ratifications were exchanged in Berlin on January 31, 1923. It was signed at the Hotel Imperiale in the Italian town of Santa Margherita Ligure, and registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on September 19, 1923.
context_section_description: The Treaty of Rapallo was an agreement signed on 16 April 1922 between the German Republic and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) under which each renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and World War I.
  The two governments also agreed to normalise their diplomatic relations and to "co-operate in a spirit of mutual goodwill in meeting the economic needs of both countries". Secretly the two sides established elaborate military cooperation, while publicly denying it.
  It was a spinoff of the Genoa Conference, which included Germany and Russia. The talks had broken down when France demanded that the Soviets assume the prewar debt incurred by the Russian Empire and on immediate reparations by the Germans to the USSR. The Treaty was negotiated by Georgi Chicherin, foreign minister of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, and his German counterpart Walther Rathenau. Ratifications were exchanged in Berlin on January 31, 1923. It was signed at the Hotel Imperiale in the Italian town of Santa Margherita Ligure, and registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on September 19, 1923.  The treaty did not include secret military provisions; however secret military cooperation soon followed.
  A supplementary agreement signed in Berlin on 5 November extended the treaty to cover Germany's relations with the other Soviet republics: of Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and the Far Eastern Republic. Ratifications were exchanged in Berlin on October 26, 1923, and the supplementary protocol was registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on July 18, 1924.
  The agreement was reaffirmed by the Treaty of Berlin, 1926.
caption: Chancellor of Germany Joseph Wirth (2.from left) with Krassin, Georgi Chicherin and Joffe from the Russian delegation.
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