First Cabinet of Gustav Stresemann | |
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 8th Cabinet of Weimar Germany | |
| 13 August 1923 – 3 October 1923 (until 6 October 1923 as caretaker government) | |
 Chancellor Gustav Stresemann | |
| Date formed | 13 August 1923 |
| Date dissolved | 6 October 1923 (1 month and 23 days) |
| People and organisations | |
| President | Friedrich Ebert |
| Chancellor | Gustav Stresemann |
| Vice Chancellor | Robert Schmidt |
| Member parties | German People's Party Social Democratic Party Centre Party German Democratic Party |
| Status in legislature | Majority coalition government 354/459 (77%)
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| Opposition parties | German National People's Party Communist Party of Germany |
| History | |
| Election | 1920 federal election |
| Legislature term | 1st Reichstag of the Weimar Republic |
| Predecessor | Cuno cabinet |
| Successor | Second Stresemann cabinet |
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The first Stresemann cabinet, headed by Gustav Stresemann of the German People's Party (DVP), was the eighth democratically elected government of the Weimar Republic. The cabinet took office on 13 August 1923 when it replaced the Cuno cabinet under Wilhelm Cuno, which had resigned following a call by the Social Democratic Party for a vote of no confidence which Cuno knew he could not win.
The four centre-left to centre parties in Stresemann's coalition did not have a formal coalition agreement, and the Reichstag was not in session during most of the cabinet's short tenure. That led to the use of emergency decrees to handle Germany's economic problems and to fight the move towards a right-wing dictatorship in Bavaria.
The cabinet resigned late on 3 October 1923 over a disagreement on increasing working hours for key industrial labourers and was replaced on 6 October by a second Stresemann cabinet.