Word: rathenau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speedy Ford sedan was the clue that led to the arrest of 40 people in North Germany last week, reawakening German interest in the notorious Organization Konsul, bloodthirsty Nationalist secret society which was responsible for the assassinations of onetime Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger in 1921 and Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau...
Although the A. E. G. was founded by the late Dr. Emil Rathenau,* Dr. Felix Deutsch was a pioneer co-executive with the Rathenaus, father and son, and succeeded them as the chief directing genius...
...Father of the late famed Dr. Walther Rathenau (1867-1922) onetime President of the A. E. G. and one of the greatest of post-War German Foreign Ministers...
...April 10, 1922, Lloyd George succeeded in assembling the representatives of the Allied Powers at Genoa, there to dictate to the Foreign Ministers of Russia (Tchitcherin) and Germany (Rathenau), (subsequently assassinated) the terms of a general European economic peace. On April 17 Tchitcherin and Rathenau, realizing that they would get only, harsh terms from the Allies, slipped off to Rapallo and signed a mutual economic agreement on a "most favored nation" basis. When the Treaty of Rapallo was announced at Genoa, it created such consternation that that conference subsequently dispersed without notable accomplishment. This Treaty must be carefully distinguished from...
...lobbies of the Reichstag and conferring privately with the leaders of the Voelkische, the extreme-Right Ludendorff faction. Captain Ehrhardt not only led the famed Kapp Putsch, which attempted to overthrow the German Republic in March, 1920, but was so implicated in the assassination of the Ministers Erzberger and Rathenau that he was forced to flee from Germany until the passing of last year's amnesty law. Pressmen eagerly touted his appearance as a sign that his old adherents in Bavaria are planning to attempt a coup, aided by the Ludendorffers. It was generally admitted, however, that the possibility...