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Gustav Stresemann

German politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1878-1929)

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Lived 1878–1929, aged 51Germany
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    1878–1929
    Aged 51
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Updated 2026-08-27

The man who convinced Weimar Germany to stop fighting the last war and start surviving the peace. As foreign minister through six fragile cabinets, Stresemann traded revanchism for pragmatism — pacts with France, a seat at Geneva, reparations halved — and won the Nobel for it in 1926.

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Stresemann studied political economy at Berlin and Leipzig, then moved from trade associations into the Reichstag in 1907 as a National Liberal. During World War I he championed militarism and expansion; Germany's defeat and the monarchy's collapse hit him hard enough to force a rethink. He founded the German People's Party, swallowed his monarchist leanings, and accepted the republic. Named chancellor in August 1923, he ditched passive resistance in the Ruhr and launched the Rentenmark to kill hyperinflation, then lost a confidence vote three months later but stayed on as foreign minister und…

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Gustav Stresemann
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There is much sentimentality in the Fourteen Points of Wilson's peace program.
— Speech in the Reichstag (24 January 1918), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany. From Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933 (1945), p. 138.
Gustav Stresemann
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The conquest of Riga is of the greatest importance not only from the military, but also form the political point of view....
— Speech in the Reichstag (October 1917), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany. From Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933 (1945), p. 121
Gustav Stresemann
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The restoration of German vitality is not guaranteed by the status quo ante.
— Speech in the Reichstag (1 March 1917), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (1941), p. 135
Gustav Stresemann
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Napoleon once compared England with Carthage. Carthage sank down from her height. England also can sink and will sink.
— 'Napoleon und Wir' (29 January 1917), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (1941), p. 175
Gustav Stresemann
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We see the strongest guarantee of peace for Europe in a policy of expansion. When have we exploited the embarrassments of other peoples?
— Speech in the Reichstag (6 April 1916), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany. From Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933 (1945), p. 75
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