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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago the obscure name of Heinrich Brüning was not in Germany's Who's Who. He was born in 1885 at Munster in Westphalia, son of a distiller who knew for certain the names of his prosperous ancestors as far back as the 16th Century...
...Wilhelm II ruled by divine right," quipped a Berlin humorist recently, "but Chancellor Brüning rules as a divine duty...
Zentrum to Chancellor. His first duty, young Dr. Brüning felt, was to strive as an underling of the Catholic Zentrum Party in Westphalia - his chief and successful effort being to organize Catholic Zentrum trade unions. Came the War and sterner duties. Bespectacled Dr. Brüning became, in an amazingly short time, be spectacled Captain Brüning, commander of a crack Prussian machine gun unit. In action he won the Iron Cross, both second and first class, returned to Westphalia wounded, hard...
...crazy post-War years of inflation, Dr. Brüning moved with the Catholic Centre from staunch Imperialism to staunch Republicanism. Six years ago his party put him into the Reichstag. There his sheer erudition made him valuable to politicians who needed to ask questions before talking about budgets and such...
Quietly, modestly, but authoritatively and rapidly Dr. Brüning forged upward to Party Leadership which he assumed in 1929. He was and is close to Dr. Gottfried Treviranus, "Hindenburg's Colonel House." It was as the potent old President's protege that Dr. Brüning became German Chancellor (TIME, April 7, 1930) before he was known to Who's Who. In amazement people all over Germany asked each other, "Who is our new Chancellor...