First Cabinet of Wilhelm Marx | |
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 10th Cabinet of Weimar Germany | |
| 30 November 1923 – 26 May 1924 (until 3 June 1924 as caretaker government) | |
.jpg) Wilhelm Marx | |
| Date formed | 30 November 1923 |
| Date dissolved | 3 June 1924 (6 months and 4 days) |
| People and organisations | |
| President | Friedrich Ebert |
| Chancellor | Wilhelm Marx |
| Vice Chancellor | Karl Jarres |
| Member parties | Centre Party German People's Party German Democratic Party |
| Status in legislature | Minority coalition government 168 / 459 (37%) |
| Opposition parties | German National People's Party Communist Party |
| History | |
| Election | 1920 federal election |
| Legislature term | 1st Reichstag of the Weimar Republic |
| Predecessor | Second Stresemann cabinet |
| Successor | Second Marx cabinet |
The first Marx cabinet, headed by Wilhelm Marx of the Centre Party, was the tenth democratically elected government during the Weimar Republic. It took office on 30 November 1923 when it replaced the Second Stresemann cabinet, which had resigned on 23 November after the Social Democratic Party (SPD) withdrew from the coalition. Marx's new cabinet was a minority coalition of three centre to centre-right parties.
The government used emergency decrees to handle Germany's deep economic problems caused by hyperinflation and large budget deficits. It gained control over a potentially separatist right-wing government in Bavaria. When the authorization for the economic emergency decrees expired, it faced pressure to repeal many of the measures it had implemented and called for new elections in May 1924. The results left it weakened, and it resigned on 26 May. It was replaced on 3 June by an unchanged second cabinet led by Marx.