First Marx cabinet

First Cabinet of Wilhelm Marx

10th Cabinet of Weimar Germany
30 November 1923 – 26 May 1924
(until 3 June 1924 as caretaker government)
Wilhelm Marx
Date formed30 November 1923 (1923-11-30)
Date dissolved3 June 1924 (1924-06-03)
(6 months and 4 days)
People and organisations
PresidentFriedrich Ebert
ChancellorWilhelm Marx
Vice ChancellorKarl Jarres
Member partiesCentre Party
German People's Party
German Democratic Party
Status in legislatureMinority coalition government
168 / 459 (37%)
Opposition partiesGerman National People's Party
Communist Party
History
Election1920 federal election
Legislature term1st Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
PredecessorSecond Stresemann cabinet
SuccessorSecond Marx cabinet
Members of the cabinet at a radio broadcast. Marx is at the left, sitting.
Gustav Stresemann (DVP), Foreign Minister
Erich Emminger (BVP), Minister of Justice
Otto Gessler (DDP), Reichswehr Minister
Eduard Hamm (DDP), Minister of Economic Affairs
Hans Luther (Ind.), Minister of Finance
Rudolf Oeser (DDP), Minister of Transport

The first Marx cabinet, headed by Wilhelm Marx of the Centre Party, was the tenth democratically elected government during the Weimar Republic. It took office on 30 November 1923 when it replaced the Second Stresemann cabinet, which had resigned on 23 November after the Social Democratic Party (SPD) withdrew from the coalition. Marx's new cabinet was a minority coalition of three centre to centre-right parties.

The government used emergency decrees to handle Germany's deep economic problems caused by hyperinflation and large budget deficits. It gained control over a potentially separatist right-wing government in Bavaria. When the authorization for the economic emergency decrees expired, it faced pressure to repeal many of the measures it had implemented and called for new elections in May 1924. The results left it weakened, and it resigned on 26 May. It was replaced on 3 June by an unchanged second cabinet led by Marx.


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