Achievements Weaknesses
Economy and industry • He ended • Agricultural
Hyperinflation by production did not
calling off the recover to its pre-
‘passive resistance’ war levels when
of German workers Stresemann was in
in the Ruhr. This charge.
helped Germany’s • Rich people then had
economy because to pay more taxes
goods were back in and they complained
production. that the government
• He promised to was spending too
begin reparations much money on the
payments again. This poor and
persuaded France unemployed. This
and Belgium to end shows that
the occupation of the Stresemann failed to
Ruhr by 1925. solve the really
• He introduced a new important problems
currency called the faced by the Weimar
Rentenmark. This republic.
stabilised prices as
only a limited
number were printed
meaning money rose
in value.
Politics • As Foreign Minister, • There was political
Stresemann instability in the
achieved a great Weimar Republic,
deal. His greatest these factors meant
achievement was to there was more
get Germany money chasing fewer
accepted back into goods.
the European
community.
• His philosophy of
abiding by the
Versailles Treaty
won him allies in