Gustav Stresemann

160 Gustav Stresemann 160 was a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor in 1923 and Foreign Minister 19231929, during the Weimar Republic. He was colaureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926.

Stresemann was born on May 10, 1878 in the Kpenicker Strae area of southeast Berlin, the youngest ofchildren. His father worked as a beer bottler and distributor, and also ran a small bar out of the family home, as well as renting rooms for extra money. The family was lower middle class, but relatively welloff for the neighbourhood, and had sufficient funds to provide Gustav with a highquality education. Stresemann was an excellent student, particularly excelling in German literature and poetry. In an essay written when he left school, he noted that he would have enjoyed becoming a teacher, but he would only have been qualified to teach languages or the natural sciences, which were not his primary areas of interest. Thus, he entered the University of Berlin in 1897 to study political economy. Through this course of studies, Stresemann was exposed to the principal ideological arguments of his day, particularly the German debate about socialism.

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