| 33rd | Top state leaders in 1919 |
| 52nd | Top Social Democratic Party of Germany members |
| Gustav Bauer | |
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In office August 14, 1919 – March 26, 1920 |
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| Preceded by | Philipp Scheidemann |
| Succeeded by | Hermann Müller |
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| Born | 6 January 1870 |
| Died | 16 September 1944 (aged 74) |
| Political party | SPD |
| Spouse(s) | Hedwig Moch |
Gustav Adolf
Bauer (help·info) (6
January 1870 – 16 September 1944) was a German Social Democratic
Party leader and Chancellor of Germany from 1919 to
1920.
Born in Darkehmen (now Ozyorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast) near Königsberg in East Prussia, Bauer, who rose to notice through his leadership of a white-collar trade union, served from 1908 to 1918 as chairman of the General Commission of Trade Unions for all of Germany. A member of the Reichstag, Bauer entered Prince Max of Baden's government in October 1918 as Minister of Labour, a role which he continued to hold in the government of Philipp Scheidemann after the war. When Scheidemann resigned in June 1919 to protest the Treaty of Versailles, Bauer became Chancellor, serving until March 1920, when he resigned shortly after the failure of the Kapp Putsch.
Bauer resigned from the Social Democratic Party and the Reichstag in disgrace in February 1925, after it appeared that he had accepted improper payments in the Barmat Scandal and then lied about it, but was reinstated in 1926.
Bauer later served in the governments of Hermann Müller and Joseph Wirth.
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| Preceded by None |
Labour
Minister of Germany 1918–1919 |
Succeeded by Alexander Schlicke |
| Preceded by Philipp Scheidemann |
Chancellor of Germany 1919–1920 |
Succeeded by Hermann Müller |
| Preceded by Johannes Bell |
Transportation Minister of
Germany 1920 |
Succeeded by Wilhelm Groener |
| Preceded by Rudolf Heinze |
Vice
Chancellor of Germany 1921–1922 |
Succeeded by Robert Schmidt |
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"GUSTAV BAUER (1870-), German Socialist, and first chancellor of the republican German Reich, was born Jan. 6 1870 at Darkehnen in East Prussia. At an early stage of his career he took up the secretarial work of the German Trades Unions movement and in 1908 became president of the general committee of the Trades Unions of Germany. Elected a member of the old Reichstag in 1912, he was appointed on Oct. 5 1918 Secretary of State for the Department of Labour in the Government of Prince Max of Baden, the last Government under the old regime. In Feb. 1919 he was appointed Minister of Labour in the republican Government of the German Reich and on June 21 of the same year president of the Ministry which was installed to accept the Peace Treaty of Versailles. The new constitution of the Reich having been enacted, the president of the Ministry resumed, in accordance with its provisions, the old title of chancellor (Reichskanzler) and Bauer was the first to hold this office under the republican regime. He remained chancellor until the Kapp coup of March 1920, when he fled with the president of the Reich, Ebert, and the rest of the Ministry to Dresden and afterwards to Stuttgart. On their return the Ministry was reconstructed and Bauer made way for the second republican chancellor, Hermann Muller, himself becoming for a brief period the Minister of the Treasury (Reichsschatzminister).
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