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Heinrich Brüning, (born Nov. 26, 1885, Münster, Ger.—died March 30, 1970, Norwich, Vt., U.S.), conservative German statesman who was chancellor and foreign minister shortly before Adolf Hitler came to power (1930–32). Unable to solve his country’s economic problems, he hastened the drift toward rightist dictatorship by ignoring the ...

Chancellor Heinrich Brüning wanted to pass a budget, but after facing parliamentary deadlock, he resorted to the use of the president’s emergency powers under Article 48 to put his program into effect by decree (July 16, 1930). Unable to solve his country’s economic problems, he hastened the drift toward rightist dictatorship by ignoring ...

After a grand coalition led by chancellor Hermann Müller collapsed, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed the Centre Party politician Heinrich Brüning to the chancellorship. Since Brüning did not command a majority in parliament, he governed exclusively through the president's emergency powers.

Heinrich Brüning (1885-1970) was a Centre Party politician and the longest-serving chancellor of the Weimar Republic – somewhat ironically, given that his time in office coincided with the worst of the Great Depression. Brüning was born in Munster in north-western Germany, the son of a Catholic wine merchant.

Heinrich Aloysius Maria Elisabeth Brüning (26 November 1885 in Münster – 30 March 1970 in Norwich, Vermont) was a German politician during the Weimar Republic. Between 1930 and 1932 he was the Chancellor of Germany. Brüning opposed Nazism and stayed during the Nazi period in the United States, where he taught political science, after the ...

HEINRICH BRUNING I 81 of his family-almost monastically dedicated: the brother a priest, the unmarried sister given to charity work-or of his student years. All his life had been studious and erlebnisarm, save for a few male friendships and the war years. Those years were the truly formative ones, of Bekraftigung in every sense of the term.

Heinrich Aloysius Maria Elisabeth Brüning ( pronounced [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈbʁyːnɪŋ] i; 26 November 1885 – 30 March 1970) was a German Centre Party politician and academic, who served as the chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic from 1930 to 1932.

Scholars have long debated whether Heinrich Brüning, head of the German government from 1930 to 1932, was the 'last democratic chancellor'of the Weimar Republic or the trailblazer of the Nazi dictatorship. His memoirs (published in 1970) damaged his reputation badly by terming the restoration of monarchy the 'crux' of his policies.