Hermann Müller

German politician (1876–1931)

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Lived 1876–1931, aged 55Germany
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    1876–1931
    Aged 55
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Updated 2026-06-21

The Social Democrat who put his name to the Treaty of Versailles — the document that would haunt German politics for a generation — and then tried twice to govern the republic that document had helped create.

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Müller joined the SPD in 1893 and climbed fast enough to reach the Reichstag by 1916, during the war's grinding middle years. As foreign minister in 1919, he became one of Germany's signatories on the Treaty of Versailles that June, a job no one wanted and many would use against him. His first chancellorship in 1920 lasted three months — long enough to pass a clutch of social reforms before the SPD's election losses forced him out. He returned in June 1928 to lead a grand coalition through budget fights and diplomatic headaches, then watched it fracture after the Depression hit. He left office…

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