Condolences poured in from around the Nation and the World in reaction to the death on Monday of German Foreign Minister and Statesman Gustav Stresemann. In Geneva, the Polish Delegate to the League of Nations arose to deliver a reflective eulogy at the session opening, and Dr. von Schubert, the Delegate from Germany, received official expressions of sorrow throughout the day. Helen Dukas, secretary to the noted Berlin University physicist Albert Einstein, wrote an obituary in the Berliner Zeitung expressing the hope that Stresemann's tireless work would be carried on and not forgotten. NSDAP Chairman Adolph Hitler said that "given the dire circumstances with which he was faced, no man could have done more than Gustav Stresemann."
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Dignitaries from across Europe attend the funeral service for German
Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann.
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Chancellor Hermann Meuller presided at the official State Funeral, delivering a lengthy speech describing Stresemann's many successes and contributions, and announcing that the former Chancellor and Foreign Minister would be interred in the Luisenstadt Cemetery at Südstern in Berlin Kreuzberg, and that a suitable monument, including work by the German sculptor Hugo Lederer, would be erected in his memory by the Republic.
Meanwhile, Dr. Julius Curtius (DVP) was named to succeed Stresemann as Foreign Minister. Curtius was the former Economics Minister.
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