Georg von Hertling

Infobox Chancellor
name=Georg Graf von Hertling


order=7th Chancellor of the German Empire
term_start =November 1, 1917
term_end =September 30, 1918
monarch = William II
predecessor =Georg Michaelis
successor =Prince Maximilian of Baden
order2=18th Minister President of the Kingdom of Prussia
term_start2=December 2, 1917
term_end2=October 3, 1918
monarch2=William II
predecessor2 =Georg Michaelis
successor2 =Prince Maximilian of Baden
order3=26th Minister President of the Kingdom of Bavaria
term_start3=1912
term_end3=1917
monarch3=Otto
Ludwig III
predecessor3=Clemens von Podewils-Dürnitz
successor3=Otto Ritter von Dandl
birth_date =birth date|1843|8|31|mf=y
death_date =death date|1919|1|4|mf=y
party=Centre

Georg Friedrich Graf von Hertling (August 31, 1843ndash January 4, 1919) was a Bavarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Bavaria 1912–1917 and then as Prime Minister of Prussia and Chancellor of the German Empire from 1917 to 1918.

As leader of the largest party in the Bavarian Landtag Hertling was appointed Bavarian Prime Minister in 1912 by Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria. Following the outbreak of World War I Hertling supported the policy of Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg but declined to become his successor. Hertling became German Chancellor and Prime Minister of Prussia only after the fall of Georg Michaelis in 1917 but was incapable of meeting the crisis during the final stage of the war. Due to his age and conservatism he was unable to overcome the power of the military high command, led by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, despite having been a deputy to the Reichstag and a leader of the Centre Party. He was required to resign his seat when he took office under the Kaiser.

In civil life he was a professor of philosophy.He founded the important German catholic fraternity Askania-Burgundia and was a member of K.St.V. Arminia at Bonn.

His great-granddaughter is actress Gila von Weitershausen.

External links

* [http://www.archive.org/details/a587314801hertuoft "Erinnerungen aus meinen Leben " "Recollections from my Life" Vol. I at archive.org. In German]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/a587314802hertuoft "Erinnerungen aus meinen Leben " "Recollections from my Life" Vol. II at archive.org. In German]
*cite book
title=Naturrecht und Socialpolitik
author=Georg Hertling, Graf von Georg Hertling
year=1893
publisher=J. P. Bachem
isbn=
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=fxsOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Georg+von+Hertling&as_brr=1#PPP5,M1