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Gustav Adolf Bauer ( listen ⓘ; 6 January 1870 – 16 September 1944) was a German Social Democratic Party leader and the chancellor of Germany from June 1919 to March 1920.
Gustav Bauer was a German statesman, chancellor of the Weimar Republic (1919–20). As an office worker in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), Bauer in 1895 founded the Office Employees Association, over which he presided until 1908.
Gustav Adolf Bauer war SPD-Politiker. In den letzten Wochen des Kaiserreichs war er Staatssekretär und vom 21. Juni 1919 bis zum 26. März 1920 Reichskanzler der Weimarer Republik.
Gustav Bauer was one of the SPD’s right-wing members and supported the policy of Burgfrieden (truce among parties). In October 1918, he joined Max von Baden’s cabinet as State Secretary. In February 1919, he became Minister of Labor in Scheidemann’s cabinet.
The Bauer cabinet, headed by Gustav Bauer of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), was the second democratically elected government during the Weimar Republic. Bauer's title was minister president until the Weimar Constitution came into force on 14 August 1919, after which he became chancellor of Germany.
Gustav Adolf Bauer (6 January 1870 – 16 September 1944) was a German Social Democratic Party leader and the Chancellor of Germany from June 1919 to March 1920.
"GUSTAV BAUER (1870-), German Socialist, and first chancellor of the republican German Reich, was born Jan. 6 1870 at Darkehnen in East Prussia. At an early stage of his career he took up the secretarial work of the German Trades Unions movement and in 1908 became president of the general committee of the Trades Unions of Germany.
Gustav Bauer. Der zweite sozialdemokratische Kanzler in der deutschen Geschichte ist unter den zwölf Amtsinhabern der Weimarer Republik der unbekannteste, vermutlich auch der verkannteste. Die bisher einzige vorhandene Biografie ist ideologisch gefärbt und lässt viele Aspekte unberücksichtigt.
The SPD was a major partner in all but one of the Weimar coalitions; SPD deputies sat in all Weimar era cabinets, three of them as chancellor (Philipp Scheidemann, Gustav Bauer and Hermann Muller).
Biography. Gustav Bauer won one match at the 1904 Olympics and then lost the gold medal by a decision to George Mehnert. Mehnert and Bauer knew each other's moves quite well because they were both members of Newark's National Turnverein and were regular practice partners.
