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5 unusual facts about Gustav Stresemann


Gustav Stresemann

He said to Nikolay Krestinsky in June 1925, as recorded in his diary: "I had said I would not come to conclude a treaty with Russia so long as our political situation in the other direction was not cleared up, as I wanted to answer the question whether we had a treaty with Russia in the negative".

His gravesite is situated in the Luisenstadt Cemetery at Südstern in Berlin Kreuzberg, and includes work by the German sculptor Hugo Lederer.

Kurt von Kleefeld

His sister, Käte Stresemann, was married to the German Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann.

Thoiry, Ain

The little village was the scene of the September 1926 meeting between Aristide Briand of France and Gustav Stresemann of Germany.

Vollrath von Maltzan

He attained the rank of consul in 1927 and was immediately appointed Secretary to the minister, Gustav Stresemann, the joint architect of the Franco-German rapprochement together with Aristide Briand.


Christina Stresemann

Christina Stresemann is the daughter of Wolfgang Stresemann and granddaughter of liberal statesman Gustav Stresemann, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning German Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic.

Golden Twenties

Before long, the Weimar Republic under Chancellor Gustav Stresemann managed to tame the extreme levels of inflation by the introduction of a new currency, the Rentenmark, with tighter fiscal controls and reduction of bureaucracy, leading to a relative degree of political and economic stability.

Locarno Treaties

In both 1925 and 1926, the Nobel Peace Prize was given to the lead negotiators of the treaty, going to Sir Austen Chamberlain (with Charles Dawes) in 1925 and jointly to Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann in 1926.


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