1. Hermann Warmbold was a German independent politician and academic who served as Reich Minister of Economics during the Weimar Republic from 1931 to 1933, with a brief break in 1932.
18 Facts About Hermann Warmbold
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Hermann Warmbold initially entered politics for the Prussian state government as Minister of Agriculture.
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Hermann Warmbold was born on 21 April 1876 Klein Himstedt, a village then near Sohlde, in the Kingdom of Prussia.
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Hermann Warmbold attended Gymnasium Andreanum, which was sponsored by the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover.
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Hermann Warmbold then studied at the universities of Gottingen and Bonn.
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Hermann Warmbold returned to Germany in 1913, becoming the head of the Department of Economic Administration at the Agricultural University of Berlin.
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Hermann Warmbold was a reserve soldier for the 7th Guards Infantry Regiment during World War One.
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Hermann Warmbold was the director of the University of Hohenheim for two years from 1917 to 1919.
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Hermann Warmbold was then from 21 April to 7 November 1921 Minister of Agriculture in Adam Stegerwald's ministry of the Prussian state government.
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Hermann Warmbold was appointed because of IG Farben, who pressured Bruning to respond to the collapse of Germany's banks by providing credit-financed relief to the German industry.
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Hermann Warmbold officially resigned on 6 May 1932, and it was speculated that he resigned due to ill health and to make way for Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, a member of the then opposition party of Alfred Hugenberg.
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Hermann Warmbold was appointed against minister later that same year under Franz von Papen.
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Hermann Warmbold criticized reparations payments from World War One as having hurt the agriculture of Germany.
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Hermann Warmbold said in January 1933 that he thought the Great Depression was nearly over, as evidenced by the gain in long-term German loans abroad.
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Hermann Warmbold resigned on 28 January 1933 upon Adolf Hitler becoming chancellor.
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Hermann Warmbold was in the faculty of economic sciences at the University of Santiago, Chile.
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Hermann Warmbold married Eleonore Wagemann, who was German Chilean, in December 1923.
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Hermann Warmbold died on 11 March 1976 in Tegernsee, West Germany at the age of 99.