ABSTRACT
Although German society was far from being united in the late 1920s, the republic did experience a short interlude of apparent political consensus, at least in the sphere of foreign policy. This was symbolised above all by the presence in high office of the DVP politician and statesman Gustav Stresemann, who served briefly as Reich Chancellor during the crisis months of August to November 1923, and subsequently as Foreign Minister through six different ‘bourgeois’ cabinets (1923–8) and into the grand coalition government which was formed under SPD leader Hermann Müller in June 1928. He died, still in post, on 3 October 1929.
