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Julius Curtius (7 February 1877, Duisburg
Duisburg

Duisburg is a Germany city in the western part of the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is an independent metropolitan borough within D?sseldorf ....
 - 10 November 1948, Heidelberg
Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. As of 2006, over 140,000 people live within the city's area. The town of Heidelberg is an administrative district of its own....
) was Foreign Minister of Germany from October, 1929 to October 1931. Curtius was a member of the center-right German People's Party
German People's Party

The German People's Party was a Liberalism-nationalist party in Germany.It was essentially the right wing of the old National Liberal Party , and was formed in the early days of the Weimar Republic, led by Gustav Stresemann....
 and worked closely with Heinrich Brüning
Heinrich Brüning

Dr. Heinrich Br?ning was a Germany politician during the Weimar Republic. He served as Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932....
 to revise the Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaty at the end of World War I. It ended the declaration of war between German Empire and Allies of World War I....
 in Germany's favor. However, Curtius was not a member of Brüning's inner circle. His notable achievement as Foreign Minister was in negotiating a customs union with Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
 in March 1931, but opposition from France scuttled the proposed union.






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Julius Curtius (7 February 1877, Duisburg
Duisburg

Duisburg is a Germany city in the western part of the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is an independent metropolitan borough within D?sseldorf ....
 - 10 November 1948, Heidelberg
Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. As of 2006, over 140,000 people live within the city's area. The town of Heidelberg is an administrative district of its own....
) was Foreign Minister of Germany from October, 1929 to October 1931. Curtius was a member of the center-right German People's Party
German People's Party

The German People's Party was a Liberalism-nationalist party in Germany.It was essentially the right wing of the old National Liberal Party , and was formed in the early days of the Weimar Republic, led by Gustav Stresemann....
 and worked closely with Heinrich Brüning
Heinrich Brüning

Dr. Heinrich Br?ning was a Germany politician during the Weimar Republic. He served as Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932....
 to revise the Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaty at the end of World War I. It ended the declaration of war between German Empire and Allies of World War I....
 in Germany's favor. However, Curtius was not a member of Brüning's inner circle. His notable achievement as Foreign Minister was in negotiating a customs union with Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
 in March 1931, but opposition from France scuttled the proposed union. To halt the union, the French withdrew a number of short loans they had made to Austria; the withdrawal of the French loans helped to cause the collapse of Austria's largest bank in May, 1931, which in its turn set a series of banking collapses all over Central Europe in the summer of 1931. Curtius was intimately involved in the negotiations that led to the issuing of the Hoover Moratorium
Hoover Moratorium

The Hoover Moratorium was a public statement issued by U.S. President Herbert Hoover on June 20 1931 in order to deal with a very serious banking collapse in Central Europe that threatened to cause a world-wide financial melt-down....
 by the U.S President Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . Besides his political career, Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author....
 that halted war reparations
War reparations

War reparations refer to the monetary compensation intended to cover damage or injury during a war. Generally, the term war reparations refers to money or goods changing hands, rather than such property transfers as the annexation of land....
 payments by Germany in June 1931 as part of the effort to limit the financial fall-out of the banking collapse.

His dismissal as foreign minister was largely brought about by pressure from General Kurt von Schleicher
Kurt von Schleicher

was a Germany general and the last Chancellor of Germany during the era of the Weimar Republic....
 and President Paul von Hindenburg
Paul von Hindenburg

Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg , known universally as Paul von Hindenburg was a German Generalfeldmarschall and statesman....
. A somewhat mediocre man, Curtius' appointment was due more to the memory of his predecessor, Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann

was a German liberal politician and statesman who served as Chancellor of Germany and Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic. He was co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926....
, and of the German People's Party, than to his own abilities.