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Gustav Ernst Stresemann war ein deutscher Politiker und Staatsmann der Weimarer Republik. Stresemann begann als industrieller Interessenvertreter, war ab 1917 Partei- und Fraktionsvorsitzender der Nationalliberalen Partei und nach der Novemberrevolution und der Gründung der DVP deren Parteivorsitzender. Im Krisenjahr 1923 war er Reichskanzler und danach bis zu seinem Tod in unterschiedlichen Kabinetten Reichsminister des Auswärtigen.

In seine kurze Zeit als Reichskanzler fallen das Ende der Ruhrbesetzung, Umsturzversuche der extremen Rechten und Linken sowie die Stabilisierung der deutschen Währung. Als Außenminister hat er insbesondere zur Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Frankreich beigetragen. Sein Ziel war es, die außenpolitische Isolierung Deutschlands zu beenden und eine Revision des Versailler Vertrages auf friedlichem Weg zu erreichen. Maßgeblich war seine Mitwirkung unter anderem 1924 beim Zustandekommen des Dawes-Plans oder bei den Verträgen, die während der Locarno-Konferenz 1925 abgeschlossen wurden. Dies trug zur Aufnahme des Deutschen Reiches in den Völkerbund 1926 bei. Im selben Jahr wurde ihm zusammen mit seinem französischen Amtskollegen Aristide Briand der Friedensnobelpreis verliehen.

✵ 10. Mai 1878 – 3. Oktober 1929
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“The conquest of Riga is of the greatest importance not only from the military, but also form the political point of view… Our military situation was never more glorious than it is at present. Meanwhile, there is also the U-boat war, which is taking its course. The destruction of enemy tonnage that was expected of it on the basis of official predictions, has not only been achieved, but partly exceeded by more than half…Time is working for us. Britain to-day is fighting the war with a watch in her hand, and it is in this that I see the fundamentally decisive effect of the U-boat weapon for us and the approach of peace…If we are to achieve anything through compromise and understanding, then the Government must not be forced to make any statements renouncing something from the outset. For this reason the tactics by which it has been and is still being tried to make the Government declare its disinterestedness in Belgium, are wrong. Even those who share the attitude of Herr Scheidemann ought to fight for the last stone in Belgium, in order to exploit to the utmost that which possession has made into a dead pledge…However, the fact that we are going to have peace—and, we hope, soon—will in my conviction be due, apart from our military achievements, to the effects of unrestricted U-boat warfare, of which I have repeatedly said before the Main Committee that while I reject the formula that it will force Britain to her knees, I believe as firmly in the formula that it will force Britain to the conference table.”

Speech in the Reichstag (October 1917), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany. From Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1945), p. 121
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“It is the policy of force which finally will always triumph. But when one has not got the force, one can also combat by the idea.”

Speech in Berlin (29 November 1924), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 330
1920s

“The Government must not insist too much on the fact that Germany will integrally fulfil the conditions of the peace treaty. For all parties have been unanimous in considering that the treaty is unfulfillable.”

Speech to the National Assembly (8 October 1919), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 331
1910s

“The restoration of German vitality is not guaranteed by the status quo ante.”

It will also be necessary to make territorial changes; don't let us hamper our statesmen with assertions to the effect that the German people do not want this.
Speech in the Reichstag (1 March 1917), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 135
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“We must become so strong and must so ruthlessly weaken our opponents that no enemy will ever dare to attack us again. To achieve this a modification of frontiers in the west as in the east is essential.”

Speech at a joint meeting of the National Liberal Party and the National Liberal Central Committee (15 July 1915), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 274
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“The question of Belgium must not be detached from the complex of the Western questions as a whole. Belgium is a most valuable pledge in our hands.”

Speech in the Reichstag (27 February 1918), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 210
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