Wilhelm Marx

Wilhelm Marx (born Jan. 15, 1863, Cologne, Prussia [Germany]—died Aug. 5, 1946, Bonn, Ger.) was a German statesman, leader of the Roman Catholic Centre Party, and twice chancellor during the Weimar Republic. Marx studied law and rose from a judgeship to the presidency of the senate of the Court of Appeal at Berlin (1922). He founded and was first president of the Catholic Schools Organization (Düsseldorf, 1911) and he became president of the People’s Union...