MARX, WILHELM. — German politician, born in Cologne on 15 January 1863, died in Bonn on 5 August 1946. A member of the Prussian Diet in 1899 and of the Reichstag in 1910, he was one of the best-known representatives of the German Catholic Centre during the Weimar Republic.
From December 1923 to January 1925 and from May 1926 to June 1928, he was Chancellor of the Reich. A candidate in the 1925 presidential elections, he received 13,752,640 votes, against Hindenburg’s 14,639,399. President of the Centre parliamentary group in the Reichstag and president of the party from 1921, he left active politics in 1932. He founded the organisation of Germany’s Catholics for the defence of Christian schooling and education.