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Gessler, detail from an oil painting after a photograph, 1916
Gessler, detail from an oil painting after a photograph, 1916

Otto Gessler

German statesman
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Otto Karl Gessler
Born:
February 6, 1875, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Died:
March 24, 1955, Lindenberg, West Germany (aged 80)
Political Affiliation:
German Democratic Party
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Otto Gessler (born February 6, 1875, Ludwigsburg, Germany—died March 24, 1955, Lindenberg, West Germany) was a German minister of war during the Weimar Republic who was instrumental in rebuilding the country’s armed forces after World War I. A student of law, Gessler became mayor of Regensburg (1910–11) and Nürnberg (1913–19). After the German revolution of November 1918, he helped found the bourgeois-liberal German Democratic Party (DDP) and served as minister of reconstruction (1919–20). In March 1920 he was appointed minister of war, a position he held through changing coalition governments for the next eight years. In the autumn of 1923 ...(100 of 195 words)

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