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Friedrich Ludwig von Payer (12 June 1847 – 14 July 1931) was a
German
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lawyer
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,
liberal
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politician
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and the
vice-chancellor of German Empire during the last year of
World War I
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. He was born in
Tübingen
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and was educated at the
seminary
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at
Blaubeuren
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it had 11,963 inhabitants.
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, returning to his home town to study
law
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in 1865. Having completed his university education, he worked as a lawyer in
Stuttgart
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and was first elected to the
Reichstag in 1877. He reached the height of his political career during the First World War during which he advocated a
negotiated peace with the allied powers and was appointed
vice-chancellor
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. After the war, he was
chairman
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of the
German Democratic Party
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and remained a member of the new Weimar Reichstag until 6 June 1920.
Payer married Alwine Schöninger.
References
*Günther Bradler, ''Politische Unterhaltungen Friedrich Payers mit
Theodor Heuss
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. Ein Fund aus dem Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart'', in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte (ZWLG), Jahrgang 1973, Seiten 161-192.
*Günther Bradler, ''Friedrich Payer. Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen und Dokumente'', Göppingen 1974.
*Reinhold A. Helmut Franz, ''Das Problem der konstitutionellen Parlamentarisierung bei
Conrad Haußmann und Friedrich von Payer'', Göppingen 1977.
*''Friedrich Payer zum Gedenken'', Reutlingen 1997.
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1847 births
1931 deaths
People from Tübingen
People from the Kingdom of Württemberg
German Lutherans
German People's Party (1868) politicians
Progressive People's Party (Germany) politicians
German Democratic Party politicians
Vice-Chancellors of Germany
Members of the 3rd Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the 5th Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the 6th Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the 8th Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the 9th Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the 10th Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the 11th Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the 12th Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the 13th Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the Weimar National Assembly
University of Tübingen alumni