Gustav Stresemann, the most influential German politician from 1923-1929 helped Germany, in many ways recover in the years he was in power.

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Richard Tandy

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Recovery: Art and Culture

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Gustav Stresemann, the most influential German politician from 1923-1929 helped Germany, in many ways recover in the years he was in power.

Stresemann was a more skilful politician than Ebert, and, as a right-winger, he had wider support. He was also helped by the fact that through the 1920's the rest of Europe was gradually coming out of its post war depression. Slowly but surely, he built up Germany's prosperity again.

Firstly, Stresemann called off the passive resistance (striking) in the Ruhr. He then helped Germany's economic situation by calling in the worthless marks and burning them, replacing them with a new currency called the Rentemark. Stresemann then began negotiations to receive American loans under the Dawes Plan. He even negotiated reparations payments.

Under the Dawes Plan reparations payments were spread over a longer period, and the loans from the USA poured into German industry. By 1927 German industry seemed to have recovered very well, and exports were on the increase. There was also an increase in cultural achievement in Germany. Artists, writers and poets