Gustav stresemann significance of ash
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Jean Degoutte
1866-1938
Portrait of Infantry General Degoutte. Photograph DMPA
Jean-Marie Degoutte enlisted on the 7th March 1887 in the 31st artillery regiment and got into Saint-Cyr in October 1988 with the class of "Great Triumph". He graduated 9th out of 435. Having chosen to join the "Zouaves", he served in Tunisia for four years. A key player in the French colonial venture He asked to take part in the Madagascar expedition in 1895. To get around the refusal of his superiors, he requested three months' leave and joined a Jesuit mission on board a civilian ocean liner. As he was already there when the French expeditionary corps landed, he offered his services to General Dechesnes, who put him under arrest for thirty days. Young officer Degoutte owed his salvation to Colonel Bailloud, the Head of the expedition, who convinced his superiors of the usefulness of his experience and Madagascan language skills. He returned to Tunisia in March 1896 for three ye
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DEPTH STUDY GERMANY: ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROBLEMS DURING THE WEIMAR PERIOD
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Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Ernst Stresemann (10 May1878 – 3 October1929) was a Germanpolitician and statesman who served as chancellor in 1923 for only 102 days and as utländsk minister from 1923 to 1929 during the Weimar Republic. He was a co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926.
Quotes
[edit]1910s
[edit]- The world is listening with bated breath to the struggle which to-day is rending the peoples of europe to pieces. The knowledge that England is our chief enemy in this struggle fryst vatten altogether good. 'On thine island, envious England, thou art the fundamental enemy.' The present world war may, in future, be described as the most gigantic economic struggle of all time. Economic in its ursprung, through British jealousy of the fantastisk development of German national and world economy, it has essentially also become a struggle waged with economic weapons and will be continued in the economic field even when the military weapons are silenced.
- Das deutsche Wirtschaftslebe
- Das deutsche Wirtschaftslebe