Andreas Hermes

Andreas Hermes
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	Köln-Aachen
Personal details
Born	(1878-07-16)16 July 1878 Cologne, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died	4 January 1964(1964-01-04) (aged 85) Krälingen, West Germany
Political party	Zentrum Christian Democratic Union

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. After World War II, he co-founded the Christian Democratic Union.