As a foreign minister and chancellor of Weimar Germany, Gustav Stresemann is a familiar figure for students of German history - one who, for many, embodied the best qualities of German interwar liberalism. However, a more nuanced and ambivalent picture emerges in this award-winning biography, which draws on extensive research and new archival material to enrich our understanding of Stresmann's public image and political career. It memorably explores the personality of a brilliant but flawed politician who endured class anxiety and social marginalization, and who died on the eve of Germany's descent into economic and political upheaval.

Karl Heinrich Pohl was Professor of History and Didactics in the History Department of the University of Kiel before his retirement in 2010. He was awarded the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize in 2002 and published widely on German history in the 19th and 20th centuries.

As the former Foreign Minister and Chancellor of Weimar Germany, Gustav Stresemann is a familiar figure for students of German history-one who, for many, embodied the best qualities of German interwar liberalism. However, a more nuanced and ambivalent picture emerges in this biography by renowned historian Karl Heinrich Pohl, which draws on extensive research and new archival material to enrich our understanding of Stresmann's public image and political career. Pohl memorably explores the personality of a brilliant but flawed politician who endured class anxiety and social marginalization, dying on the eve of Germany's descent into economic and political upheaval.

List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Chronology

Introduction

Chapter 1. A Life
Chapter 2. The Will to Rise
Chapter 3. Economic and Social Capital
Chapter 4. Political Capital
Chapter 5. A Life in Turmoil
Chapter 6. German and European Politics
Chapter 7. Afterlife

Conclusion: The Crossover Artist

Selected Works by Gustav Stresemann
Bibliography
Index