| Hermann Müller | |
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| In office 27 March – 8 June 1920 28 June 1928–27 March 1930 |
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| Preceded by | Gustav Bauer Wilhelm Marx |
| Succeeded by | Konstantin Fehrenbach Heinrich Brüning |
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| Born | 18 May 1876 Mannheim |
| Died | 20 March 1931 (aged 54) Berlin |
| Political party | SPD |
| Spouse(s) | Frieda Tockus (d. 1905); Gottliebe Jaeger |
Hermann Müller (help·info) (18 May 1876 – 20 March 1931), born in Mannheim, was a German Social Democratic politician who served as Foreign Minister (1919-1920), and twice as Chancellor of Germany (1920, 1928-1930) under the Weimar Republic. In his capacity as Foreign Minister, he was one of the German signatories of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
Müller's father was a champagne producer who died in 1892. In 1902 he married Frieda Tockus. They had one daughter, Annemarie, in 1905; however, Tockus died several weeks later, due to complications from the pregnancy. He remarried in 1909, and the following year his daughter Erika was born.
His second government was based on a "Grand Coalition" of Social Democrats, Centre Party, German Democratic Party and German People's Party. Though the coalition comprised a majority of the Reichstag, the relationships between the partners was uneasy. The coalition finally fell apart as a result of disputes between the Social Democrats and German People's Party over budgetary issues as a result of the onset of the Great Depression. Müller had strongly argued against his party's decision to leave the government, but was overruled.
His death the next year following a gallbladder operation was seen as a major blow to the Social Democrats. He is buried in the Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde.
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| Preceded by Ulrich Graf von Brockdorff-Rantzau |
Minister of Foreign Affairs 1919–1920 |
Succeeded by Adolf Köster |
| Preceded by Gustav Bauer |
Chancellor of Germany 1920 |
Succeeded by Konstantin Fehrenbach |
| Preceded by Wilhelm Marx |
Chancellor of Germany 1928–1930 |
Succeeded by Heinrich Brüning |
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