born May 10, 1878, Berlin, Ger.
died Oct. 3, 1929, Berlin
German chancellor and foreign minister of the Weimar Republic .
Noted as an expert on municipal affairs and a writer on economics, he was elected to the Reichstag (1907) as a member of the National Liberal Party. In 1918 he founded the Locarno , supported the reparations revisions in the Dawes and Young plans, and secured Germany's admission to the League of Nations. He shared the 1926 Nobel Prize for Peace with {{link=Briand, Aristide">Aristide Briand .
Gustav Stresemann.
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