Kurt Riezler

Diplomat, Politician

1882 – 1955

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Who was Kurt Riezler?

Kurt Riezler was a German philosopher and diplomat. A top-level cabinet adviser in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, he negotiated Germany's underwriting of Russia's October Revolution and authored the 1914 September Program which outlined German war aims during World War I. The posthumous publication of his secret notes and diaries played a role in the "Fischer Controversy" among German historians in the early 1960s.

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Born
Feb 12, 1882
Munich
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Lived in
  • Bavaria
  • Munich
Died
Sep 5, 1955
Munich

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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