Hermann Müller (politician)

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Hermann Müller (May 18, 1876 – March 20, 1931) was a German Social Democratic politician who served as Foreign Minister (1919-1920), and twice as Chancellor of Germany (1920, 1928-1930) under the Weimar Republic. In his capacity as Foreign Minister, he was one of the German signatories of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

His second government was the last Weimar government to actually command a majority of the Reichstag, but its "Grand Coalition" fell apart as a result of disputes between the Social Democrats and German People's Party over budgetary issues as a result of the onset of the Great Depression. Müller had strongly argued against his party's decision to leave the government, but was overruled. His death the next year was seen as a major blow to the Social Democrats.

Cabinet March 1920 - June 1920

Hermann Müller (SPD) - Chancellor and Foreign Minister
Dr. Erich Koch-Weser (DDP) - Vice Chancellor and Interior Minister
Dr. Andreas Blunck (DDP) - Justice Minister
Dr. Joseph Wirth (Z) - Finance Minister
Robert Schmidt (SPD) - Economics Minister
Dr. Andreas Hermes (Z) - Food Minister
Dr. Alexander Schlicke (SPD) - Labour Minister
Dr. Otto Gessler (DDP) - Defence Minister
Dr. Johannes Bell (Z) - Transportation Minister
Johannes Giesberts (Z) - Postal Minister
Gustav Bauer (SPD) - Treasury Minister
Dr. Eduard David (SPD) - Minister without Portfolio

Changes

April 10, 1920 - Dr. Adolf Köster (SPD) succeeds Müller as Foreign Minister. Müller remains Chancellor.
May 1, 1920 - Gustav Bauer succeeds Bell as Transportation Minister. Bauer remains Treasury Minister.

Cabinet June 1928 - March 1930

Hermann Müller (SPD) - Chancellor
Dr. Gustav Stresemann (DVP) - Minister of Foreign Affairs
Carl Severing (SPD) - Minister of the Interior
Dr. Erich Koch-Weser (DDP) - Minister of Justice
Dr. Rudolf Hilferding (SPD) - Minister of Finance
Dr. Julius Curtius (DVP) - Minister of Economics
Dr. Hermann Dietrich (DDP) - Minister of Food
Rudolf Wissell (SPD) - Minister of Labour
Wilhelm Groener - Minister of Defence
Theodor von Guérard (Z) - Minister of Transport and Occupied Territories
Dr. Georg Schätzel (BVP) - Postal Minister

Changes

February 6, 1929 - Schätzel succeeds von Guérard as Transportation Minister. Schätzel remains Postal Minister. Severing succeeds von Guérard as Occupied Territories Minister. Severing remains Interior Minister.
April 13, 1929 - Von Guérard succeeds Koch-Weser as Justice Minister. Adam Stegerwald (Z) succeeds Schätzel as Transportation Minister. Schätzel remains Postal Minister. Joseph Wirth (Z) succeeds Severing as Occupied Territories Minister. Severing remains Interior Minister.
October 3, 1929 - Stresemann dies. Curtius succeeds him as Foreign Minister.
November 11, 1929 - Dr. Paul Moldenhauer (DVP) succeeds Curtius as Economics Minister. Curtius remains Foreign Minister.
December 21, 1929 - Hilferding resigns as Finance Minister.
December 23, 1929 - Moldenhauer becomes Finance Minister. Robert Schmidt (SPD) succeeds him as Economics Minister.

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