1. Gustav Stresemann attended the University of Berlin and Leipzig University, where he studied political economy, history and international law and developed his vision of liberalism and nationalism, a combination of views that would define his political career.
Gustav Stresemann lost his seat in 1912 but was re-elected two years later.
Germany's defeat and the fall of the Hohenzollern monarchy came as a significant shock to Gustav Stresemann, forcing him to gradually reassess his previous positions.
Gustav Stresemann resigned as chancellor following a vote of no confidence but remained as foreign minister in the new government led by Wilhelm Marx.
Gustav Stresemann moved to improve relations with the Soviet Union through the 1926 Treaty of Berlin.
Amid failing health, Gustav Stresemann successfully negotiated the Young Plan which sought to further reduce German reparations payments.
Gustav Stresemann died in October 1929 after a series of strokes at the age of 51.
Gustav Stresemann's father worked as a beer bottler and distributor, and ran a small bar out of the family home, as well as renting rooms for extra money.
Gustav Stresemann was an excellent student, particularly excelling in German literature and poetry.
Gustav Stresemann took an interest in Napoleon and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whom he later wrote about in his work.
In 1898, Gustav Stresemann left the University of Berlin, transferring to the University of Leipzig so that he could pursue a doctorate.
Gustav Stresemann studied history and international law and took literature courses.
Gustav Stresemann completed his studies in January 1901, submitting a thesis on the bottled beer industry in Berlin, which received a relatively high grade but was a subject of mockery from colleagues.
Gustav Stresemann returned to business and founded the German-American Economic Association.
Gustav Stresemann was exempted from war service due to poor health.
Gustav Stresemann believed in the maintenance of a balance of power between the British Empire, the United States, and Germany, the countries which he believed would be the world's economic superpowers.
Gustav Stresemann believed that Germany would need to annex Belgium, parts of north-east France, "extensive" lands in Eastern Europe and the French protectorate in Morocco in order to economically compete with the United States in the future.
Gustav Stresemann was a vocal proponent of unrestricted submarine warfare.
Gustav Stresemann nevertheless agreed to the Turks' demand to recall of the German ambassador, Paul Wolff Metternich, and accused him of being too sympathetic to Armenians.
Gustav Stresemann's words, spoken under Fichte's portrait, the final words of which merged into Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles, made it an unforgettably solemn hour.
Gustav Stresemann wanted to be a part of a united post-war liberal party, but the leaders of the merger talks made it clear that they did not want anyone who had been an aggressive annexationist during the war.
Gustav Stresemann then brought together the right wing of the old National Liberal Party and some of the Progressives into the German People's Party, with himself as chairman.
On 13 August 1923, Gustav Stresemann was appointed chancellor and foreign minister of a grand coalition government in the so-called year of crises.
On 26 September 1923, Gustav Stresemann announced the end to the passive resistance against the occupation of the Ruhr by the French and Belgians, in tandem with an Article 48 state of emergency proclamation by President Friedrich Ebert that lasted until February 1924.
In October 1923, when the Communist Party of Germany entered the Social Democratic-led governments of Saxony and Thuringia with hidden revolutionary intentions, Gustav Stresemann used a Reichsexekution to send troops into the two states to remove the Communists from the governments.
The Gustav Stresemann government introduced a new currency, the Rentenmark, to end hyperinflation.
Gustav Stresemann remained as foreign minister in the government of his successor, Wilhelm Marx from the Centre Party, and for the rest of his life in seven additional successive governments ranging from the centre-right to the centre-left.
Gustav Stresemann's first act was to attempt to restore the old Entente through a three-power alliance of England, France and Belgium, directed against Germany.
Gustav Stresemann conceived the idea that Germany would guarantee her western borders and pledge never to invade Belgium and France again.
Gustav Stresemann was astonished at my boldness, which indeed he thought had gone too far.
Gustav Stresemann was not willing to conclude a similar treaty with the Second Polish Republic: "There will be no Locarno of the east" he said in 1925.
Gustav Stresemann was co-winner with Aristide Briand of the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize for their work on Locarno.
Gustav Stresemann's success owed much to his friendly personal character and his willingness to be pragmatic.
Gustav Stresemann was close personal friends with many influential foreigners, most notably Aristide Briand.
Gustav Stresemann hoped to use the United States' new financial involvement in the German economy to incentivize the nation's financial and political institutions to support reform of reparations.
Gustav Stresemann hoped for an escalation of the Polish crisis, which would enable Germany to regain territories ceded to Poland after World War I, and he wanted Germany to gain a larger market for its products there.
Gustav Stresemann refused to engage in any international cooperation that would have "prematurely" restabilized the Polish economy.
Gustav Stresemann hoped to recover formerly German territories in Greater Poland, Silesia and the Polish Corridor.
Besides waging economic war on Poland, Gustav Stresemann funded extensive propaganda efforts both in Germany and abroad.
Gustav Stresemann successfully negotiated a grand coalition government led by Chancellor Hermann Muller in which he remained foreign secretary, but he was weakened in doing so.
Discontent with the Young Plan led to the growth of far-right movements rejecting liberal democracy such as the Nazi Party, with Gustav Stresemann weakening himself further by keeping the right wing of the DVP under control.
Gustav Stresemann responded to worsening trans-Atlantic relations by pursuing negotiations for closer relations with the United Kingdom and France, and in 1929 he spoke positively of the idea of European integration to form a united political and economic counterweight against the United States.
Gustav Stresemann died of a series of strokes on 3 October 1929 at the age of 51, before he could make any further diplomatic progress towards this idea.
Gustav Stresemann's death came just hours after convincing the Reichstag to accept the Young Plan.
Gustav Stresemann's gravesite is situated in the Luisenstadt Cemetery at Sudstern in Berlin Kreuzberg, and includes work by the German sculptor Hugo Lederer.
Gustav Stresemann was a Freemason initiated in the Masonic lodge Frederick the Great in Berlin in 1923.
Gustav Stresemann popularized the style of substituting a short dark lounge-suit jacket for a morning coat but otherwise wearing morning dress for men's day wear.