Gustav Stresemann was a German politician who led the German People’s Party during the Weimar period. This plan although opposed by those on the right-wing won majority approval and further reduced Germany’s reparations payments. Stresemann was the major force in negotiating and guiding the Young Plan through a plebiscite. Once again Gustav Stresemann had decided to take on the arduous job of leading a battle for a policy he felt was in his nation’s vital interest even though he was tired and ill and knew that the opposition would be stubborn and vitriolic. With his French and American counterparts Auguste Briand and Frank Kellog, he had helped negotiate the Paris Peace pact which bore the name of his fellow diplomats Kellog-Briand. Stresemann often spoke before the League of Nations. Germany has, in part, as a result of his efforts become a respected member of the international community again. Certainly the bitterness at Germany's defeat in the World War I and the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles had not been forgotten but most Germans appeared to have come to terms with the new Republic and its leaders.
Germany has been admitted to the League of Nations and is once more an accepted member of the international community. It is 1929 and the misery that had aided the efforts of Weimar’s enemies in the early 20s has been relieved by five years of economic growth and rising incomes.
