Friedrich von Payer was a German

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 lawyer

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, liberal

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 politician

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 and vice-chancellor of Germany

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 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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, 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

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 in 1877. He reached the height of his political power during the First World War, during which he advocated a negotiated peace

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 with the allied powers and was appointed vice-chancellor. After the War, he was chairman of the DDP, and remained a member of the new Weimar Reichstag until 6 June 1920.

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