Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876)
Hermann Müller | |
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Müller in 1928 | |
| Chancellor of Germany (Weimar Republic) | |
| In office 28 June 1928 – 27 March 1930 | |
| President | Paul von Hindenburg |
| Preceded by | Wilhelm Marx |
| Succeeded by | Heinrich Brüning |
| In office 27 March 1920 – 21 June 1920 | |
| President | Friedrich Ebert |
| Deputy | Erich Koch-Weser |
| Preceded by | Gustav Bauer |
| Succeeded by | Constantin Fehrenbach |
| Foreign Minister of Germany | |
| In office 21 June 1919 – 26 March 1920 | |
| President | Friedrich Ebert |
| Chancellor | Gustav Bauer |
| Preceded by | Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau |
| Succeeded by | Adolf Köster |
| Member of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic) | |
| In office 1920–1931 | |
| Constituency | Franconia |
| (German Empire) | |
| In office 1916–1918 | |
| Constituency | Breslau 11 |
| Member of the Weimar National Assembly | |
| In office 6 February 1919 – 21 May 1920 | |
| Constituency | Breslau |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hermann Müller 18 May 1876 Mannheim, German Empire |
| Died | 20 March 1931 (aged 54) Berlin, Weimar Republic |
| Political party | SPD |
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| Children | 2 |
Hermann Müller (18 May 1876 – 20 March 1931; ⓘ) was a German Social Democratic politician who served as foreign minister (1919–1920) and was twice chancellor of Germany (1920, 1928–1930) during the Weimar Republic.
Müller rose quickly through the ranks of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) after joining it in 1893. He was elected to the Reichstag of the German Empire in 1916 and to the Weimar National Assembly in 1919. In his capacity as foreign minister, he was one of the German signatories of the Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919).
During the three months Müller was chancellor in 1920, his government passed a number of progressive social reforms before it had to resign due to the SPD's poor showing in the 1920 election. In his second term as chancellor, from June 1928 to 1930, he led a grand coalition through a period marked by budgetary and international relations issues. The coalition broke apart after the onset of the Great Depression, and Müller, already suffering from poor health, died a year after leaving office.