Wilhelm Marx

See also: Marx

Wilhelm Marx , born with Cologne the January 15th 1863 and died in Bonn the August 5th 1946, is a Politician and German lawyer , chancellor, minister, deputy and president of the Zentrum.

Wilhelm Marx makes its studies of right to Bonn and occupies then several stations near the courts in Rhenish Prussia. Member of the House of Commons of Prussia of 1899 with 1918, he is specialist in the school questions and supports the Catholic school in a Protestant Prussia. He is appointed with the Reichstag 1910 with 1918 and again of 1920 with 1932. He is member of the National Assembly of Weimar of February 6th 1919 at May 21st 1920 and chair Zentrum of 1922 1928.

It forms four governments:

Marx I: November 30th 1923 - May 26th 1924 (Zentrum, BVP, DDP, DVP)
Marx II: June 3rd - December 15th 1924 (Zentrum, DVP, DDP)
Marx III: May 16th - December 17th 1926 (Zentrum, BVP, DDP, DVP)
Marx IV: January 29th 1927 - June 12th 1928 (Zentrum, BVP, DVP, DNVP)

Wilhelm Marx is the chancellor of the Weimar Republic remained longest in function.

Candidate against Paul von Hindenburg at the time of the presidential elections of 1925, it is constant to the second turn by the social democrats but not by BVP. Hindenburg carries it with 14 639 390 votes, against 13 752 640 for Marx and 1 932 646 for Ernst Thälmann (KPD, Communist).

Chronology of the Weimar Republic
List of the German chancellors

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