Hans Luther
Hans Luther (
10 March 1885 -
11 May 1962) was a
German politician and former Chancellor of Germany. Luther started politics in
1907 by becomming the town councillor in Magdeburg. He continued on becomming secretary of the German Stategag in
1913 and then mayor of
Essen in
1918. In December
1922, Chancellor Willhelm Cuno appointed Luter 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 ambassator to the
United States, a position he held from
1933 to
1937, after which he retired. After the
second world war, when Germany's
Nazi government had been completely replaced with a new
democratic one, Luther came out of retirement to become an advisor for the new government.