Fehrenbach cabinet

Cabinet of Constantin Fehrenbach
4th Cabinet of Weimar Germany
25 June 1920 – 4 May 1921 (until 10 May 1921 as caretaker government)
Chancellor Constantin Fehrenbach
Date formed	25 June 1920 (1920-06-25)
Date dissolved	10 May 1921 (1921-05-10) (10 months and 15 days)
People and organisations
President	Friedrich Ebert
Chancellor	Constantin Fehrenbach
Vice-Chancellor	Rudolf Heinze
Member parties	Centre Party German Democratic Party German People's Party
Status in legislature	Minority coalition government[a] 168/459 (37%)
Opposition parties	German National People's Party Independent Social Democratic Party Communist Party of Germany
History
Election	1920 federal election
Legislature term	1st Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Predecessor	First Müller cabinet
Successor	First Wirth cabinet

The Fehrenbach cabinet, headed by Chancellor Constantin Fehrenbach of the Centre Party, was the fourth democratically elected government of the Weimar Republic. It took office on 25 June 1920 when it replaced the first cabinet of Hermann Müller, which had resigned due to the poor showing of the coalition parties in the June 1920 elections to the new Reichstag. The 1920 Reichstag replaced the Weimar National Assembly, which had served as Germany's interim parliament and written and approved the Weimar Constitution.

Fehrenbach's government was the first since the fall of the German Empire in 1918 that did not include the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The SPD remained the strongest party after the elections, but its share of the vote had dropped significantly. The government was formed by the Centre Party, the German Democratic Party (DDP) and the German People's Party (DVP).

The dominant issues that the cabinet faced were uprisings in Saxony and Upper Silesia and negotiations over Germany's war reparations to the Allies of World War I, the failure of which led to the French occupation of three cities in the Ruhr.

Fehrenbach resigned on 4 May 1921 over his government's inability to find common ground on war reparations. The cabinet remained in office on a caretaker basis until 10 May, when it was replaced by the first cabinet of Joseph Wirth, the Centre Party minister of Finance under Fehrenbach.

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