| Matthias Erzberger |
Article Index for Matthias |
Website Links For Matthias |
Information AboutMatthias Erzberger |
|
He was born in Buttenhausen , Württemberg , the son of a craftsman. He became a journalist working for the Deutsches Volksblatt. Erzberger joined the (Catholic) Center Party and was elected to the Reichstag in 1903. Initially supporting Germany's involvement in World War I , by 1917 he called for a negotiated end to the war. As the head of the German delegation, he signed the Armistice Ending World War I on November 11 1918 at Compiègne with French representative Ferdinand Foch . Erzberger became finance minister in June 1919, and endorsed the Treaty Of Versailles . He was forced from office in March 1920, and was later murdered in Bad Griesbach , a spa in the Black Forest ( Baden ) by members of the Organisation Consul . Erzberger's assassins fled Germany and were prosecuted only after World War II. |
|
|