First Stresemann cabinet

First Cabinet of Gustav Stresemann

8th Cabinet of Weimar Germany
13 August 1923 – 3 October 1923
(until 6 October 1923 as caretaker government)
Chancellor Gustav Stresemann
Date formed13 August 1923 (1923-08-13)
Date dissolved6 October 1923 (1923-10-06)
(1 month and 23 days)
People and organisations
PresidentFriedrich Ebert
ChancellorGustav Stresemann
Vice ChancellorRobert Schmidt
Member partiesGerman People's Party
Social Democratic Party
Centre Party
German Democratic Party
Status in legislatureMajority coalition government
354 / 459 (77%)
Opposition partiesGerman National People's Party
Communist Party of Germany
History
Election(s)1920 federal election
Legislature term(s)1st Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
PredecessorCuno cabinet
SuccessorSecond Stresemann cabinet
Robert Schmidt (SPD), Vice-Chancellor and Reconstruction Minister
Wilhelm Sollmann (SPD), Minister of the Interior
Gustav Radbruch (SPD), Minister of Justice
Otto Gessler (DDP), Reichswehr Minister

The first Stresemann cabinet, headed by Gustav Stresemann of the German People's Party (DVP), was the eighth democratically elected government of the Weimar Republic. The cabinet took office on 13 August 1923 when it replaced the Cuno cabinet under Wilhelm Cuno, which had resigned following a call by the Social Democratic Party for a vote of no confidence which Cuno knew he could not win.

The four centre-left to centre parties in Stresemann's coalition did not have a formal coalition agreement, and the Reichstag was not in session during most of the cabinet's short tenure. That led to the use of emergency decrees to handle Germany's economic problems and to fight the move towards a right-wing dictatorship in Bavaria.

The cabinet resigned late on 3 October 1923 over a disagreement on increasing working hours for key industrial labourers and was replaced on 6 October by a second Stresemann cabinet.


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