STRESEMANN, GUSTAV

born May 10, 1878, Berlin, Ger. died Oct. 3, 1929, Berlin Stresemann chancellor (1923) and foreign minister (1923, 192429) of the Weimar Republic, largely responsible for restoring Germany's international status after World War I. With French foreign minister Aristide Briand, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1926 for his policy of reconciliation and negotiation. Additional reading Biographies include Annelise Thimme, Gustav Stresemann: Eine politische Biographie zur Geschichte der Weimarer Republik (1957); and Felix Hirsch, Gustav Stresemann: Patriot und Europer (1964), which is supplemented by his Stresemann: Ein Lebensbild (1978), focusing on the years 192329. Aspects of Stresemann's career are examined in Henry L. Bretton, Stresemann and the Revision of Versailles (1953); Hans W. Gatzke, Stresemann and the Rearmament of Germany (1954, reissued 1969), an excellent treatment of a single topic; Henry Ashby Turner, Stresemann and the Politics of the Weimar Republic (1963, reprinted 1979), an overview; Donald Warren, Jr., The Red Kingdom of Saxony: Lobbying Grounds for Gustav Stresemann, 19011909 (1964), basic for Stresemann's rise as a corporate lawyer; Martin Walsdorff, Westorientierung und Ostpolitik: Stresemanns Russlandpolitik in der Locarno-ra (1971), with a detailed bibliography; Robert P. Grathwol, Stresemann and the DNVP; Reconciliation or Revenge in German Foreign Policy, 19241928 (1980); and Manfred J. Enssle, Stresemann's Territorial Revisionism: Germany, Belgium, and the Eupen-Malmdy Question, 19191929 (1980).