1. Hans Luther was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany for 482 days in 1925 to 1926.
17 Facts About Hans Luther
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From 1930 to 1933, Luther was head of the Reichsbank and from 1933 to 1937 he served as German Ambassador to the United States.
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Hans Luther was born in Berlin on 10 March 1879 into a Lutheran family as the son of Otto, a well-off merchant, and Wilhelmine Luther.
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Hans Luther's teachers included Otto von Gierke, Franz von Liszt, Heinrich Brunner, Gustav von Schmoller and Hugo Preuss.
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In 1907, Hans Luther was elected to the Magdeburg city council where he increased the area assigned to Schreber garden tenfold and litigated against the regional potash industry for polluting the drinking water.
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Hans Luther remained in this office in the cabinet of Gustav Stresemann, focussing on ensuring food supplies for those groups of the population hardest hit by inflation.
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When Streseman reshuffled his cabinet on 6 October 1923, Hans Luther took over the Ministry of Finance and kept that portfolio in the two cabinets led by Wilhelm Marx which followed.
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Hans Luther thus was in charge of the currency reform which ended the hyperinflation and introduced a new stable Mark.
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Hans Luther tried to convince Walter Simons, president of the Reichsgericht, to ask the two candidates for the second round of voting to step aside and accept Simons as a compromise of the center.
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The ministers of the DNVP left the cabinet in protest over Locarno, forcing Hans Luther to set up a new government that took office in January 1926.
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Hans Luther voluntarily decided to resign after a Reichstag majority censured him on 12 May 1926 after he had asked Hindenburg to issue the presidential Flaggen-Verordnung, which ordered German embassies and consulates to display not just the official black-red-gold Reichsflagge but the black-white-red Handelsflagge.
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Hans Luther was elected to the supervisory board of the Reichsbahn in the summer of 1926.
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On 11 March 1930, Hans Luther was appointed as Hjalmar Schacht's successor as president of the Reichsbank.
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Hans Luther supported Heinrich Bruning's deflation policy out of loyalty and conviction.
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Hans Luther was offered the post of German ambassador to Washington which he accepted.
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Hans Luther's speech stressed Hitler's "peaceful intentions" toward his European neighbors.
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Hans Luther served as a member of the supervisory board of the Bayerischen Hypotheken und Wechselbank.