Max von Baden Friedrich Ebert Philipp Scheidemann (Minister-President)
Member of the Reichstag for Württemberg
In office 24 June 1920 – 26 August 1921
Preceded by
Constituency established
Succeeded by
Hermann Eger
Member of the Reichstag for Württemberg 16
In office 3 December 1903 – 9 November 1918
Preceded by
Gebhard Braun
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born
(1875-09-20)20 September 1875 Buttenhausen, Württemberg, German Empire
Died
26 August 1921(1921-08-26) (aged 45) Bad Griesbach, Baden, Germany
Political party
Centre Party
Occupation
Politician
Matthias Erzberger (20 September 1875 – 26 August 1921) was a politician of the Catholic Centre Party, member of the Reichstag and minister of finance of Germany from 1919 to 1920.
Erzberger was first elected to the Reichstag of the German Empire in 1903. During the early years of World War I he supported Germany's position enthusiastically but later became a leading opponent of unrestricted submarine warfare and proposed the successful 1917 Reichstag peace resolution, which called for a negotiated peace without annexations. In November 1918 he headed the German delegation to negotiate an end to the war with the Allies and was one of the signatories of the Armistice of 11 November 1918.
He was elected to the Weimar National Assembly in 1919 and served as minister of portfolio in Philipp Scheidemann's cabinet. When Scheidemann resigned as minister president in protest over the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Erzberger – who supported the treaty because he saw no alternative to it – became finance minister and vice-chancellor under Gustav Bauer. He pushed through the "Erzberger reforms" that transferred supreme taxing authority from the states to the central government and redistributed the tax burden more towards the wealthy. Under attack for corruption from a member of the right-wing German National People's Party, he was forced by the Centre Party to resign in March 1920 but was elected to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic later in the year.
Both his role in ending the war and his financial policies earned him the enmity of the political right. On 26 August 1921, he was assassinated by two members of the right-wing terrorist group Organisation Consul.
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