Hans Luther

Order:	18th Chancellor of Germany
Term of Office:	January 15, 1925 - May 12, 1926
Predecessor:	Wilhelm Marx
Successor:	Wilhelm Marx
Date of Birth:	10 March 1885
Date of Death:	11 May 1962
Political Party:	DVP
Profession:	lawyer

Hans Luther (10 March 1885–11 May 1962) was a German politician and former Chancellor of Germany. Luther started in politics in 1907 by becoming the town councillor in Magdeburg. He continued on becoming secretary of the German Stategag in 1913 and then mayor of Essen in 1918. In December 1922, Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno appointed Luther minister of Food and Agriculture. He kept his position in 1924 when Wilhelm Marx was elected. In 1925, he was elected Chancellor of Germany, but then Marx was put back into power the following year. Luther's political career didn't end here, though. In 1930, Hans Luther was made president of Reichsbank. Soon after he was made German ambassador to the United States, a position he held from 1933 to 1937, after which he retired. After the second world war, Luther came out of retirement to become an advisor for the new government.

Hans Luther's First Cabinet, January - December 1925

• Hans Luther, Chancellor
• Gustav Stresemann (DVP), Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Martin Schiele (DNVP), Minister of the Interior
• Otto von Schlieben (DNVP), Minister of Finance
• Albert Neuhaus (DNVP), Minister of Economics
• Heinrich Brauns (Z), Minister of Labour
• Josef Frenken (Z), Minister of Justice
• Otto Geßler (DDP), Minister of Defence
• Karl Stingl (BVP), Minister of Posts
• Rudolf Krohne (DVP), Minister of Transport
• Gerhard Graf von Kanitz , Minister of Food

Changes

• October 26, 1925 - Schiele, Schlieben, and Neuhaus resign from the Cabinet. They are replaced on an acting basis by Gessler (who remains also Defense Minister) at Interior, Luther (who remains also Chancellor) at Finance, and Krohne (who remains also Transport Minister) at Economics.
• November 21, 1925 - Frenken resigns as Justice Minister and is replaced on a temporary basis by Chancellor Luther

Luther's Second Cabinet (January - May 1926)

• Hans Luther, Chancellor
• Gustav Stresemann (DVP), Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Wilhelm Külz (DDP), Minister of the Interior
• Peter Reinhold (DDP), Minister of Finance
• Julius Curtius (DVP), Minister of Economics
• Heinrich Brauns (Z), Minister of Labour
• Wilhelm Marx (Z), Minister of Justice
• Otto Geßler (DDP), Minister of Defence
• Karl Stingl (BVP), Minister of Posts
• Rudolf Krohne (DVP), Minister of Transport
• Heinrich Haslinde (Z), Minister of Food

Preceded by: Wilhelm Marx

Chancellor of Germany 1925–1926

Followed by: Wilhelm Marx