Wilhelm Marx
| Wilhelm Marx | |
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| 17th Chancellor of Germany 8th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic |
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In office 30 November 1923 – 15 January 1925 |
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| President | Friedrich Ebert |
| Deputy | Karl Jarres |
| Preceded by | Gustav Stresemann |
| Succeeded by | Hans Luther |
| 19th Chancellor of Germany 10th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic |
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In office 16 May 1926 – 12 June 1928 |
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| President | Paul von Hindenburg |
| Deputy | Oskar Hergt (1927-1928) |
| Preceded by | Hans Luther |
| Succeeded by | Hermann Müller |
| 6th Minister President of the Free State of Prussia | |
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In office 18 February 1925 – 6 April 1925 |
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| Preceded by | Otto Braun |
| Succeeded by | Otto Braun |
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15 January 1863 Cologne, Germany |
| Died | 5 August 1946 (aged 83) Bonn, Germany |
| Political party | Centre |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Wilhelm Marx (15 January 1863 – 5 August 1946) was a German lawyer, Catholic politician and a member of the Centre Party. He was Chancellor of Germany twice, from 1923 to 1925 and again from 1926 to 1928, and also served briefly as Minister President of Prussia in 1925, during the Weimar Republic. He was the longest serving Chancellor during the Weimar Republic.
Wilhelm Marx was born on 15 January 1863 in Cologne to Johann Marx (rector of a Catholic school, 1822–82) and his wife Gertrude (1826-1909). He had a sister, Barbara (1860–1924), who later headed the Cologne Ursulines. Marx passed his Abitur at the Marzellengymnasium in 1881. He then studied jurisprudence at the University of Bonn from 1881–84. As a student he became a member of K.St.V. Arminia.
Marx married Johanna Verkoyen (1871–1946) in 1891 and they had a total of four children (three sons and a daughter).
In 1888, he passed the Zweite Staatsprüfung for the Prussian civil service and began working as an assessor in Cologne and Waldbröl and later in the land registry in Simmern. In 1894 he became a judge at Elberfeld. In 1904, Marx became Landgerichtsrat at Cologne, in 1907 Oberlandesgerichtsrat at Düsseldorf, in January 1921 Landgerichtspräsident in Limburg an der Lahn and on 27 September 1921 Senatspräsident of the Kammergericht Berlin without requirement to serve as that same day he was elected president of the Reichstag fraction of the Centre Party.
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