Joseph Wirth

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Joseph Wirth
Chancellor of Germany (Weimar Republic)
In office 10 May 1921 – 22 November 1922
President	Friedrich Ebert
Deputy	Gustav Bauer
Preceded by	Constantin Fehrenbach
Succeeded by	Wilhelm Cuno
Foreign Minister of Germany
Acting 26 October 1921 – 31 January 1922
Chancellor	Joseph Wirth
Preceded by	Friedrich Rosen
Succeeded by	Walther Rathenau
Acting 24 June 1922 – 22 November 1922
President	Friedrich Ebert
Chancellor	Joseph Wirth
Preceded by	Walther Rathenau
Succeeded by	Hans von Rosenberg
Reich Minister of Finance
In office 27 March 1920 – 22 October 1921
Chancellor	Hermann Müller Constantin Fehrenbach Joseph Wirth
Preceded by	Matthias Erzberger
Succeeded by	Andreas Hermes
Reich Minister of the Interior
In office 30 March 1930 – 7 October 1931
Chancellor	Heinrich Brüning
Preceded by	Carl Severing
Succeeded by	Wilhelm Groener
Reich Minister for the Occupied Territories
In office 13 April 1929 – 27 March 1930
Chancellor	Hermann Müller
Preceded by	Carl Severing
Succeeded by	Gottfried Treviranus
Member of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic)
In office 1920–1933
Constituency	National list (1932-1933) Liegnitz (1930-1932) National list (1928-1930) Baden (1920-1928)
(German Empire)
In office 1914–1918
Constituency	Baden 7
Member of the Weimar National Assembly
In office 6 February 1919 – 21 May 1920
Constituency	Baden
Personal details
Born	Karl Joseph Wirth (1879-09-06)6 September 1879 Freiburg im Breisgau, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire
Died	3 January 1956(1956-01-03) (aged 76) Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Political party	Zentrum Christian Democratic Union of Germany Alliance of Germans

Karl Joseph Wirth (6 September 1879 – 3 January 1956) was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party who served for one year and six months as the chancellor of Germany from 1921 to 1922, as the finance minister from 1920 to 1921, as acting foreign minister of Germany from 1921 to 1922 and again in 1922, as the minister for the Occupied Territories from 1929 to 1930 and as the minister of the Interior from 1930 to 1931. During the postwar era, he participated in the Soviet and East German Communist-controlled neutralist Alliance of Germans party from 1952 until his death in 1956.