chancellor predecessor successor death_date birth_place president death_place party profession birth_date order term_start image article_title term_end name
philipp scheidemann -lrb- '' ministerpräsident '' -rrb- wilhelm people 's deputies solf -lrb- imperial germany -rrb- council of the hermann müller 08 september 1928 schleswig , kingdom of prussia friedrich ebert berlin , free state of prussia none politician , diplomat 29 may 1869 foreign minister of germany 13 february 1919 ulrich graf von brockdorff-rantzau . jpg ulrich von brockdorff-rantzau
 20 june 1919 ulrich von brockdorff-rantzau
ulrich von brockdorff-rantzau

ulrich karl christian graf von brockdorff-rantzau -lrb- 29 may 1869 -- 8 september 1928 -rrb- was a german diplomat who became the first foreign minister of the weimar republic .
in this capacity , he led the german delegation at the paris peace conference but resigned over the signing of the treaty of versailles .
he later was german ambassador to the ussr from 1922 to 1928 .
