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Georg, count von Hertling, (born Aug. 31, 1843, Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt—died Jan. 4, 1919, Ruhpolding, Ger.), conservative German statesman and philosopher who became imperial chancellor during the last year of World War I but was little more than a caretaker for the military, which actually controlled the country.

Georg Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Hertling, ab 1914 Graf von Hertling (* 31. August 1843 in Darmstadt; † 4. Januar 1919 in Ruhpolding, Oberbayern), war ein deutscher Politiker der Zentrumspartei. Unter anderen war er in Bayern Außenminister und Ministerpräsident. Während des Ersten Weltkrieges war Hertling danach vom 1. November 1917 bis ...

Georg von Hertling, who had taken the place of Michaelis as Germany’s chancellor in November 1917 but had proved no more capable than he of restraining Ludendorff and Hindenburg, tendered his resignation on September 29, 1918, the day of the Bulgarian armistice and of the major development of the British attack on the Western Front. Pending ...

Georg Friedrich Graf von Hertling (31 August 1843 – 4 January 1919) was German Bavarian politician. He served as Minister-President of Bavaria 1912–1917 and then as Minister-President of Prussia and Chancellor of the German Empire from 1917 to 1918 under Kaiser Wilhelm II during World War 1 until in 1918 when became the Weimar Republic .

Georg von Hertling (1843-1919) was born as a member of the German nobility ( Freiherr) and promoted to the rank of Count in 1913. He studied philosophy and became a professor at Munich University in 1882. He was also a delegate to the Reichstag for the Catholic Center Party.

Georg von Hertling. Georg Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Hertling, from 1914 Count von Hertling, (31 August 1843 – 4 January 1919) was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party. He was foreign minister and minister president of Bavaria, then chancellor of the German Reich and minister president of Prussia from 1 November 1917 to 30 ...

Sadly, Georg von Hertling did not live to see the fate of Germany after Versailles. He died on January 4, 1919 at Ruhpolding in the People’s State of Bavaria at the age of seventy-five. Hertling was credited for founding the important German Catholic fraternity Askania-Burgundia.

Georg von Hertling (1843-1919) - a cousin of Franz Brentano - is the only Aristotle Scholar and Professor of Philosophy who has ever held the German Chancellorship.