1st Kanzler (Chancellor) of Nationalist Germany | |
Predecessor | Office created |
Successor | Joseph Goebbels |
3rd Chairman of the DNVP | |
Predecessor | Kuno Graf von Westarp |
Successor | Joseph Goebbels |
Born | June 19, 1865 Hanover, Kingdom of Hanover |
Died | March 12, 1951 Berlin, Nationalist Germany |
Spouse | Gertrud Adickes |
Political Party | German National People's Party (DNVP) |
Religion | Protestantism |
Alfred Ernst Christian Alexander Hugenberg was an influential German businessman and politician. Hugenberg, a leading figure within nationalist politics in Germany for the first half of the twentieth century, became the country's leading media proprietor within the inter-war period. More famously, Hugenberg was the dictator of Nat. Germany from 1936 until his death in 1951.