Hans Luther
Hans Luther (
10 March 1885 -
11 May 1962) was a
German politician and former Chancellor of Germany. Luther started in politics in
1907 by becoming the town councillor in
Magdeburg. He continued on becoming secretary of the German Stategag in
1913 and then mayor of
Essen in
1918. In December
1922, Chancellor
Wilhelm Cuno appointed Luther minister of Food and Agriculture. He kept his position in
1924 when
Wilhelm Marx was elected. In
1925, he was elected Chancellor of Germany, but then Marx was put back into power the following year. Luther's political career didn't end here, though. In
1930, Hans Luther was made president of
Reichsbank. Soon after he was made German ambassador to the
United States, a position he held from
1933 to
1937, after which he retired. After the
second world war, when Germany's
Nazi government had been completely replaced with a new
democratic one, Luther came out of retirement to become an advisor for the new government.
Hans Luther's First Cabinet, January - December 1925
- Hans Luther, Chancellor
- Gustav Stresemann (DVP), Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Martin Schiele (DNVP), Minister of the Interior
- Otto von Schlieben (DNVP), Minister of Finance
- Albert Neuhaus (DNVP), Minister of Economics
- Heinrich Brauns (Z), Minister of Labour
- Josef Frenken (Z), Minister of Justice
- Otto GeÃÂler (DDP), Minister of Defense
- Karl Stingl (BVP), Minister of Posts
- Rudolf Krohne (DVP), Minister of Transport
- Gerhard Graf von Kanitz, Minister of Food
Changes
- October 26, 1925 - Schiele, Schlieben, and Neuhaus resign from the Cabinet. They are replaced on an acting basis by Gessler (who remains also Defense Minister) at Interior, Luther (who remains also Chancellor) at Finance, and Krohne (who remains also Transport Minister) at Economics.
- November 21, 1925 - Frenken resigns as Justice Minister and is replaced on a temporary basis by Chancellor Luther
Luther's Second Cabinet (January - May 1926)
- Hans Luther, Chancellor
- Gustav Stresemann (DVP), Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Wilhelm Külz (DDP), Minister of the Interior
- Peter Reinhold (DDP), Minister of Finance
- Julius Curtius (DVP), Minister of Economics
- Heinrich Brauns (Z), Minister of Labour
- Wilhelm Marx (Z), Minister of Justice
- Otto GeÃÂler (DDP), Minister of Defense
- Karl Stingl (BVP), Minister of Posts
- Rudolf Krohne (DVP), Minister of Transport
- Heinrich Haslinde (Z), Minister of Food