What is Gustav Stresemann?
{{nobelprize|Peace}} {{Infobox Chancellor | name=Gustav Stresemann | image=Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1989-040-27, Gustav Stresemann.jpg | order=[[Chancellor of Germany#Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933)|Chancellor of Germany]] | term_start =13 August 13 1923 | term_end =23 November 1923 | predecessor =[[Wilhelm Cuno]] | successor =[[Wilhelm Marx]] |order2 = Foreign Minister and Chancellor |office2 = |term_start2 = 13 August 1923 |term_end2 = 23 November 1923 |order3 = Foreign Minister |office3 = |term_start3 = 23 November 1923 |term_end3 = 3 October 1929 | birth_date ={{Birth date|1878|5|10|df=y}} | death_date ={{death date and age|1929|10|3|1878|5|10}} | party=[[National Liberal Party (Germany)|National Liberal Party]] (1907-1918)<br />[[German Democratic Party]] (1918)<br /> [[German People's Party]] (1918-1929) }} '''Gustav Stresemann''' (10 May 1878–3 October 1929) was a German liberal politician. He was [[Chancellor of Germany#Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933)|Chancellor]] and [[Foreign Office of Germany|Foreign Minister of Germany]] during the [[Weimar Republic]]. He shared the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1926. Stresemann's politics are hard to define. Today, he is generally considered one of the most important leaders of Germany and a strong supporter of democracy in the fragile Weimar Republic. He is noted as one of the first to see European economic integration. His most important achievement was probably [[reconciliation]] between Germany and France, for which he and [[Aristide Briand]] received the Peace Prize. ==Early years== Stresemann was born on 10 May 1878 in the Köpenicker Straße area of southeast [[Berlin]], the youngest of seven children. His father worked as a beer bottler and distributor, and also ran a small bar out of the family home, as well as renting rooms for extra money. The family was lower middle class, but relatively well-off for the neighbourhood, and had enough