Joseph Wirth
Karl Joseph Wirth (6 September 1879 – 3 January 1956) was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party who served for one year and six months as the chancellor of Germany from 1921 to 1922, as the finance minister from 1920 to 1921, as acting foreign minister of Germany from 1921 to 1922 and again in 1922, as the minister for the Occupied Territories from 1929 to 1930 and as the minister of the Interior from 1930 to 1931. During the postwar era, he participated in the Soviet and East German Communist-controlled neutralist Alliance of Germans party from 1952 until his death in 1956.
Joseph Wirth | |
|---|---|
| Chancellor of Germany (Weimar Republic) | |
| In office 10 May 1921 – 22 November 1922 | |
| President | Friedrich Ebert |
| Deputy | Gustav Bauer |
| Preceded by | Constantin Fehrenbach |
| Succeeded by | Wilhelm Cuno |
| Foreign Minister of Germany | |
| Acting 26 October 1921 – 31 January 1922 | |
| Chancellor | Joseph Wirth |
| Preceded by | Friedrich Rosen |
| Succeeded by | Walther Rathenau |
| Acting 24 June 1922 – 22 November 1922 | |
| President | Friedrich Ebert |
| Chancellor | Joseph Wirth |
| Preceded by | Walther Rathenau |
| Succeeded by | Hans von Rosenberg |
| Reich Minister of Finance | |
| In office 27 March 1920 – 22 October 1921 | |
| Chancellor | Hermann Müller Constantin Fehrenbach Joseph Wirth |
| Preceded by | Matthias Erzberger |
| Succeeded by | Andreas Hermes |
| Reich Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 30 March 1930 – 7 October 1931 | |
| Chancellor | Heinrich Brüning |
| Preceded by | Carl Severing |
| Succeeded by | Wilhelm Groener |
| Reich Minister for the Occupied Territories | |
| In office 13 April 1929 – 27 March 1930 | |
| Chancellor | Hermann Müller |
| Preceded by | Carl Severing |
| Succeeded by | Gottfried Treviranus |
| Member of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic) | |
| In office 1920–1933 | |
| Constituency | National list (1932-1933) Liegnitz (1930-1932) National list (1928-1930) Baden (1920-1928) |
| (German Empire) | |
| In office 1914–1918 | |
| Constituency | Baden 7 |
| Member of the Weimar National Assembly | |
| In office 6 February 1919 – 21 May 1920 | |
| Constituency | Baden |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Karl Joseph Wirth 6 September 1879 Freiburg im Breisgau, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire |
| Died | 3 January 1956 (aged 76) Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany |
| Political party | Zentrum Christian Democratic Union of Germany Alliance of Germans |
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