Gustav Stresemann Quotes

• Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

  Gustav Stresemann

• For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

  Gustav Stresemann

• During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

  Gustav Stresemann

• Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

  Gustav Stresemann

• But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.

  Gustav Stresemann

• As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.

  Gustav Stresemann

• As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

  Gustav Stresemann

• As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.

  Gustav Stresemann

• A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.

  Gustav Stresemann

• A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.

  Gustav Stresemann

Gustav Stresemann (30)

Birth:	10th May, 1878
Death:	3rd October, 1929
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Politician, Statesman

About

Gustav Stresemann was a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor in 1923 and Foreign Minister 1923–1929, during the Weimar Republic. He was co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926. Stresemann's politics defy easy categorization. Arguably, his most notable achievement was reconciliation between Germany and France, for which he and Aristide Briand received the Nobel Peace Prize. During a period of political instability and fragile, short-lived governments, he was generally seen as the most influential cabinet member in most of the Weimar Republic's existence.

Related Authors

• Kay Granger
• Gwen Moore
• Willy Brandt
• William Perry
• Vince W. Foster
• Reginald Maudling
• George Wallace
• Bruce Kent
• Ralph Regula
• Lech Walesa

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 25th December

Births

• 1888 - Sonya Levien
• 1959 - Michael P. Anderson
• 1975 - Rob Mariano
• 1642 - Sir Isaac Newton
• 1948 - Barbara Mandrell

Deaths

• 1962 - Warren R. Austin
• 1989 - Alfred Manuel Martin Jr
• 1995 - Dean Martin
• 1676 - Sir Matthew Hale
• 1635 - Samuel De Champlain