Adam Stegerwald was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 Catholic

Catholic

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 politician

Politician

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 and a leader of the left wing of the Centre Party. He served as Prime Minister of Prussia

Prime Minister of Prussia

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 in 1921, and later as a minister in the national governments of Hermann Müller

Hermann Müller (politician)

' , born in Mannheim, was a German Social Democratic politician who served as Foreign Minister , and twice as Chancellor of Germany under the Weimar Republic...

 and Heinrich Brüning

Heinrich Brüning

Heinrich Brüning was Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932, during the Weimar Republic. He was the longest serving Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, and remains a controversial figure in German politics....

. He also was Oberpräsident (administrative president) of the province of Brandenburg

Province of Brandenburg

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 until 1933. He returned to his native region Lower Franconia and in 1945 he briefly served as Regierungspräsident until his death. In Würzburg

Würzburg

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 he was one of the founders of the new party Christian Social Union

Christian Social Union

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