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In 1921, he was appointed minister of reconstruction by Chancellor Joseph Wirth, and a year later he became foreign minister. Rathenau negotiated the 1922 Treaty of Rapallo, which normalised relations and strengthened economic ties between Germany and Soviet Russia.
Apr 3, 2024 · Rathenau combined democratic convictions and a strong belief in international cooperation with economic experience and a knowledge of foreign countries. He entered the government of Karl Joseph Wirth in May 1921 as minister of reconstruction, and in that post he initially advocated a policy of fulfillment of Germany’s obligations under the ...
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Jul 7, 2013 · In a murderous campaign, which began in 1921, they accounted for more than 350 deaths. Their first victim, shot down while holidaying in the Black Forest, was Matthias Erzberger, who had negotiated the 1918 Armistice. Their last was Walther Rathenau.
Aug 9, 2019 · He was in the German delegation at Versailles in 1919 and he negotiated the Rapallo Treaty with the Soviet Union in 1922. He also became foreign minister of Germany in 1922, the first Jew to hold a cabinet post in Germany.
After the war Rathenau was initially on the margins of German politics. However, in 1920 and 1921 he began to play a role in the attempts to revise the Treaty of Versailles. At Wiesbaden in June 1921, as minister for reconstruction, he met the French minister, Louis Loucheur.
Feb 1, 2022 · Meet Germany's only Jewish foreign minister. Christoph Hasselbach. 02/01/2022. In 1922, Walther Rathenau became the first Jew to serve as Germany's foreign minister — and was assassinated by the...
Rathenau was already recognized as a social and economic theorist, and known as an organizer of the German war effort in 1914-15, when he entered the cabinet of the Weimar Republic on May 29th, 1921. He moulded German foreign policy with grace and distinction through a continuous series of crises until his assassination a year and a month later.
