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4 unusual facts about Chancellor of Germany


Duke of Lauenburg

After the death of the last ruling duke, William I (who after 1870 was also German emperor), in 1888, the now purely honorific title was granted to Otto von Bismarck after his dismissal as Chancellor of Germany in 1890.

Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham

Grigg's return to politics coincided with the rise to power of Adolf Hitler as German chancellor.

Second Merkel cabinet

Rösler was then named Vice-Chancellor on 16 May 2011, succeeding Westerwelle in this position as well.

Splendid isolation

Through them he was able to maintain an understanding with the German Chancellor, Bismarck to solve mutual problems, with Bismarck being a useful counterweight to French meddling in Egypt, and Britain being a useful ally of Austria-Hungary, thus meaning Bismarck did not have to choose between his two allies, Russia and Austria-Hungary, when they were at odds in the Balkans.


Bismarck, Missouri

It was named after the Iron Chancellor of Germany, Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, as there was a strong desire to attract German immigrants to the growing railroad area.

Dan Tyler Moore

His houseguest there was Franz von Papen, later Chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic (and Vice Chancellor briefly under Hitler)—von Papen had been Moore's roommate in Germany.

Federal City

Since April 28, 1994, it is the second official residence of the President of Germany, the Chancellor of Germany, the Bundesrat (upper house), the first official residence of six federal ministries and approximately 20 federal authorities.

Jean Brodie

When Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, she changes her holiday destination to Berlin, believing Hitler's brownshirts to be more organised than Mussolini's blackshirts.

Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg

Through his oldest surviving daughter Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1841–1914), he is the grandfather of Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867–1929), Chancellor of Germany during World War I.

Obersalzberg

Several months after Hitler's 1933 appointment as Chancellor of Germany he purchased Haus Wachenfeld and began making a series of three important renovations.

St. Petersburg International Legal Forum

The plenary session "Law as an Instrument of Innovative and Secure Development of the Global World" was also attended by the President of Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, former Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder and Minister of Justice of Russian Federation Alexander Konovalov.

Walter Scheel

On 7 May 1974, Brandt resigned as Chancellor after one of his aides, Günter Guillaume, was arrested as a spy for the East German state.

Werl

Franz von Papen: German nobleman, Roman Catholic monarchist politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933 to 1934, and who helped him come to power, was born in Werl on 29 October 1879.

Wernigerode Castle

Christian Ernest's descendant Count Otto, first president of the Prussian Province of Hanover from 1867, president of the Prussian House of Lords from 1872 and German Vice-Chancellor from 1878 had the castle again extensively rebuilt in a Neo-Romantic Gründerzeit design, finished in 1893.


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Franz von Rintelen

His colleagues were not all pleased with his success, and Franz von Papen (later Chancellor of Germany) sent a telegram to Berlin complaining about him.

Georg Michaelis

After the Reichstag and the High Command forced the resignation of Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg on 14 July 1917, Michaelis became both Chancellor of Germany and Minister President of Prussia.

Otto of Stolberg-Wernigerode

Prince Otto of Stolberg-Wernigerode (30 October 1837, Gedern – 19 November 1896, Schloss Wernigerode) was an Imperial German politician and the first Vice-Chancellor of Germany.

Raichle Flexon

In 1983 the company was sold to Peter Werhan, grandson of Konrad Adenauer, the chancellor of Germany.

Rösler

Philipp Rösler (born 24 February 1973) - a Vietnamese-born German politician, who, since 2011, has been the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology and the Vice Chancellor of Germany.