Gustav Stresemann (help·info) (May 10, 1878 – October 3, 1929) was a German liberal politician and statesman who served as Chancellor and Foreign Secretary during the Weimar Republic. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926.

Early Years
On August 13, 1923, in the midst of the Ruhr Crisis, he was appointed Chancellor of a grand coalition government. As Chancellor, Stresemann went a long way towards resolving the crisis, but some of his moves - like his refusal to deal firmly with culprits of the Beer Hall Putsch - alienated the Social Democrats, who left the coalition and caused its collapse in November 23, 1923. Stresemann remained as Foreign Minister in the government of his successor, Centrist Wilhelm Marx, and continued to hold that position through numerous governments until his death.
As Foreign Secretary, Stresemann had numerous achievements, particularly the signing of the Locarno Pact with Britain, France, Italy, and Belgium in 1925, the entry of Germany into the League of Nations as permanent member of the Security Council in 1926, and the Dawes Plan of 1924, the Treaty of Berlin in 1926 and Young Plan of 1929, which reduced Germany's reparations payments under the Treaty of Versailles. He also befriended Aristide Briand, with whom he shared the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize for achieving Franco-German reconciliation along with Britain's Foreign Minister Austen Chamberlain.
Gustav Stresemann died of a heart attack in October 1929 at the age of 51. His sudden and premature death, as well as that death of his "pragmatic moderate" French counterpart Briand in 1931, and the assassination of Briand's successor Louis Barthou in 1934, left a vacuum in European statesmanship that further tilted the slippery slope towards World War II.
Gustav and Käthe had two sons, Wolfgang and Joachim Stresemann.
Long Hanborough in Oxfordshire contains a small plaque to commemorate his life.

In the Weimar Republic

Gustav Stresemann (DVP) - Chancellor and Foreign Minister
Robert Schmidt (SPD) - Vice Chancellor and Reconstruction Minister
Wilhelm Sollmann (SPD) - Interior Minister
Rudolf Hilferding (SPD) - Finance Minister
Hans von Raumer (DVP) - Economics Minister
Heinrich Brauns (Z) - Labour Minister
Gustav Radbruch (SPD) - Justice Minister
Otto Gessler (DDP) - Defence Minister
Anton Höfle (Z) - Postal Minister
Rudolf Oeser (DDP) - Transport Minister
Hans Luther - Food Minister
Johannes Fuchs (Z) - Occupied Areas Minister Footnotes

Turner, Henry Ashby Stresemann and the politics of the Weimar Republic, Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, 1963.
Wright, Jonathan Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman (2002).
Enssle, Manfred J. Stresemann's Territorial Revisionism (1980).