ABSTRACT
There were no more general strikes during the whole period of the Weimar Republic, and the KPD's putsch attempt in the March Action the following year was a damp squib that had no popular support. Walther Rathenau, was the most remarkable and most admirable personality in the Weimar Republic. As head of the family firm AEG he was an exemplary modern manager with a complete mastery of both the technical and the financial complexities of a vast corporation. It was not for nothing that this underrated politician was the longest-serving chancellor in the history of the Weimar Republic. None of the underlying political problems were solved in this most peaceful period in the history of the Weimar Republic. A new government was formed under Hermann Mller, who returned as chancellor after eight years, heading the last government of the Weimar Republic to be led by a Social Democrat.
