Matthias Erzberger
German politician (1875–1921)
Matthias Erzberger
Matthias Erzberger (20 September 1875 – 26 August 1921) was a German Centre Party politician who, from 1919-1920, served as the Minister of Finance and, in 1919, Vice Chancellor of Germany. Erzberger was first elected to the Reichstag of the German Empire in 1903. During the early years of World War I he supported Germany's position enthusiastically but later became a leading opponent of unrestricted submarine warfare and proposed the successful 1917 Reichstag peace resolution, which called for a negotiated peace without annexations. In November 1918 he headed the German delegation to negotiate an end to the war with the Allies and was one of the signatories of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. He was elected to the Weimar National Assembly in 1919 and served as a minister without portfolio in Philipp Scheidemann's cabinet. When Scheidemann resigned as minister president in protest over the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Erzberger – who supported the treaty because he saw no alternative...
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