Andreas Hermes

Andreas Hermes
Hermes in the late 1940s
Reich Minister of Finance
In office
26 October 1921 – 13 August 1923
ChancellorJoseph Wirth
Wilhelm Cuno
Preceded byJoseph Wirth
Succeeded byRudolf Hilferding
Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture
In office
30 March 1920 – 30 March 1922
ChancellorHermann Müller
Constantin Fehrenbach
Joseph Wirth
Preceded byKarl Müller
Succeeded byGerhard von Kanitz
Member of the Reichstag
In office
14 June 1928 – 17 March 1933
ConstituencyKöln-Aachen
Personal details
Born(1878-07-16)16 July 1878
Cologne, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died4 January 1964(1964-01-04) (aged 85)
Krälingen, West Germany
Political party

Andreas Hermes (16 July 1878 – 4 January 1964) was a German agricultural scientist and politician. In the Weimar Republic, he was a member of several governments, serving as minister of food/nutrition and minister of finance for the Catholic Zentrum. During the rule of the Nazi Party, Hermes was part of the right-wing resistance, for which he was imprisoned and sentenced to death, but never executed thanks to the intervention of his wife. After World War II, he co-founded the Christian Democratic Union.