Andreas Hermes
Andreas Hermes | |
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Hermes in the late 1940s | |
| Reich Minister of Finance | |
| In office 26 October 1921 – 13 August 1923 | |
| Chancellor | Joseph Wirth Wilhelm Cuno |
| Preceded by | Joseph Wirth |
| Succeeded by | Rudolf Hilferding |
| Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture | |
| In office 30 March 1920 – 30 March 1922 | |
| Chancellor | Hermann Müller Constantin Fehrenbach Joseph Wirth |
| Preceded by | Karl Müller |
| Succeeded by | Gerhard von Kanitz |
| Member of the Reichstag | |
| In office 14 June 1928 – 17 March 1933 | |
| Constituency | Cologne–Aachen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 July 1878 Cologne, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire |
| Died | 4 January 1964 (aged 85) Krälingen, West Germany |
| Political party | |
Andreas Hermes (16 July 1878 – 4 January 1964) was a German agricultural scientist and politician. In the Weimar Republic, he was a member of several governments, serving as minister of food/nutrition and minister of finance for the Catholic Zentrum. During the rule of the Nazi Party, Hermes was part of the right-wing resistance, for which he was imprisoned and sentenced to death, but never executed thanks to the intervention of his wife. After World War II, he co-founded the Christian Democratic Union in East Germany.