Stegerwald gave up on 29 November and asked Ebert to find a less controversial person for the job than himself. This was Wilhelm Marx, chairman of the Zentrum, who by the next day had managed to put together a DVP, DDP and Zentrum coalition. The Bavarian People's Party (BVP) sent one of their Reichstag delegates, Erich Emminger, to serve as Minister of Justice, but as an independent minister, "without party affiliation". No formal coalition agreement was taken. The new cabinet showed much continuity with the previous one. Zentrum, DVP and DDP agreed that Stresemann should keep the foreign portfolio which he had already held as chancellor. Jarres remained at Interior and also became Vice-Chancellor. Hans Luther, one of the architects of the currency reform, stayed on as Minister of Finance. Otto Gessler and Heinrich Brauns had held their posts since 1920. Rudolf Oeser and stayed on, with the latter also taking over the Ministry for the Occupied Territories, recently created under Stresemann. , a former DNVP member, also remained in the cabinet after (DNVP) had refused the position at Agriculture. The only new ministers were , a former Bavarian Minister of Trade and "Staatssekretär" at the Reich chancellery of Wilhelm Cuno and Emminger of the BVP. The latter appointment was intended to build a bridge to the Bavarian state government, at the time in more or less open rebellion against the Berlin government. The members of the cabinet were as follows:  Notes: Emminger left office on 15 April 1924. At that point his "Staatssekretär" (secretary of state), Curt Joël, became acting head of the ministry. The "Reichsministerium für Wiederaufbau" (reconstruction) was dissolved on 11 May 1924. Previously, it had been led by secretary of state Gustav Müller. The "Ermächtigungsgesetz" (enabling act) of 8 December 1923 gave the cabinet wide-ranging powers. This made it possible for Marx to implement the currency reform prepared under Stresemann's chancellorship. It required massive adjustments to the public fiscal balance. Earlier large deficits financed by printing money had been a major cause of hyperinflation. Among the measures introduced by the cabinet were a 25% cut in the number of civil servants and various significant tax hikes.