stresemann background and time as chancellor

Question 1

what were stresemanns view on how Germany should act after WW1?

Answer 1

to make progress in Europe she had to accept the terms of the TOV. Stresemann believed that Weimar Germany had a better chance of being accepted back into the European community which would give her access to desperately needed economic markets.

Question 2

how long was stresemann chancellor?

Answer 2

appointed on the death of Ebert and served in this position between August 1923 to November 1923 (107 days)

Question 3

what problems did stresemann face as chancellor?

Answer 3

• the French occupying the Ruhr coalfield, hyper-inflation, separatists active in the Rhineland, Hitler in Bavaria and Communists in Saxony plotting different versions of revolution, the army wavering in its loyalty and Stresemann’s own party far from united behind him.
• He wrote to his wife Kate that to become Chancellor in such circumstances would be `all but political suicide’

Question 4

what was the ‘great coalition’ stresemann served in as chancellor?

Answer 4

• allience of the Centre Party’, DDP and SPD
• Stresemann’s government fell four weeks after the SPD withdrew support on the 2nd November 1923.

Question 5

what were stresemanns achievements as chancellor?

Answer 5

• ceasing financial support to the general strike against the French in the Ruhr, making possible the introduction of a new and stable currency
• faced down the threat from Hitler and his Bavarian allies, watching with relief as their divisions ended in the fiasco of the Munich Putsch.