First Luther cabinet

First Cabinet of Hans Luther
12th Cabinet of Weimar Germany
15 January 1925 – 5 December 1925 (until 20 January 1926 as caretaker government)
Members of cabinet
Date formed	15 January 1925 (1925-01-15)
Date dissolved	20 January 1926 (1926-01-20) (1 year and 5 days)
People and organisations
President	Friedrich Ebert (until 28 February 1925) Paul von Hindenburg (from 12 May 1925)
Chancellor	Hans Luther
Member parties	Centre Party German National People's Party (to 26 October) German People's Party German Democratic Party Bavarian People's Party
Status in legislature	Majority coalition government[a] 274 / 493 (56%) Minority coalition government[b] 171 / 493 (35%)
Opposition parties	Communist Party Nazi Party
History
Election	December 1924 federal election
Legislature term	3rd Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Predecessor	Second Marx cabinet
Successor	Second Luther cabinet

The first Luther cabinet, headed by the political independent Hans Luther, was the 12th democratically elected government of the Weimar Republic. It took office on 15 January 1925, replacing the second cabinet of Wilhelm Marx, which had resigned when Marx was unable to form a new coalition following the December 1924 Reichstag election. Luther's cabinet was made up of a loose coalition of five parties ranging from the German Democratic Party (DDP) on the left to the German National People's Party (DNVP) on the right.

The cabinet's primary achievement was negotiating the Locarno Treaties and then seeing them approved by the Reichstag. The main pact secured Germany's post-World War I borders in the west with the stipulation that it not use force to change them.

The DNVP, the largest parliamentary party in the coalition, withdrew from the cabinet on 26 October 1925 in protest against the Treaties. Four days after they were formally signed on 1 December, Luther resigned with his cabinet in order to try to rebuild a majority government. The cabinet remained in office in a caretaker capacity until he formed his second cabinet on 20 January 1926.
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