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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788541203321

Autore

Clingan C. Edmund

Titolo

The lives of Hans Luther, 1879-1962 [[electronic resource] ] : German chancellor, Reichsbank president, and Hitler's ambassador / / C. Edmund Clingan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2010

ISBN

1-283-61389-1

0-7391-3643-7

9786613926340

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Disciplina

943.086092

B

Soggetti

Statesmen - Germany

Prime ministers - Germany

Ambassadors - Germany

Germany History 1918-1933 Biography

Germany History 1933-1945 Biography

Germany History 1945-1955 Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Berlin and Magdeburg -- Essen -- Berlin : minister of the Reich -- Berlin : chancellor of the Reich -- Interlude -- Berlin : president of the Reichsbank -- Washington, D.C. -- Traunstein -- Munich and  Düsseldorf.

Sommario/riassunto

For the first time in any language, a book examines the life of Hans Luther, the German statesman whose career began at the tail end of the Weimar Republic, and ended in the immediate post-war years. Luther had a front-row seat for World War I, the Revolution of 1918, the Great Inflation, the Great Depression, and the rise of the Third Reich_serving as Hitler's first Ambassador to the United States.