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Martin Schiele
Martin Schiele
Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture
	In office; 31 March 1930 – 1 June 1932
Chancellor	Heinrich Brüning
Preceded by	Hermann Dietrich
Succeeded by	Magnus von Braun
	In office; 1 February 1927 – 28 June 1928
Chancellor	Wilhelm Marx
Preceded by	Heinrich Haslinde
Succeeded by	Hermann Dietrich
Member of the Reichstag
	In office; 24 June 1920 – 18 July 1930
Constituency	Magdeburg
Member of the Weimar National Assembly
	In office; 6 February 1919 – 21 May 1920
Constituency	Magdeburg

Martin Schiele (17 January 1870 – 16 February 1939) was a German nationalist politician. He was part of the leadership of the German National People's Party (DNVP) from its 1918 founding until Alfred Hugenberg became leader in 1928. He was also the chief representative of the agrarian wing of the DNVP.^[1] As a member of Hans Luther's coalition government, Schiele secured the restoration of agricultural and industrial protectionism with the tariff of 1925.^[2] As minister of food in 1927–28, he favored state credit as a means for subsidising agriculture.^[3]

He was persuaded by President Hindenburg to return as minister of food in Heinrich Brüning's cabinet.^[4] The Agricultural League under Schiele's leadership was criticised by Richard Walther Darré's Nazi agrarian apparatus. Schiele ceased to be leader of the Agricultural League shortly after the 1930 election.^[5] Unhappy with Hugenberg's leadership, Schiele left the DNVP and moved closer to the Conservative People's Party.^[6]

References

^ Dieter Gessner, 'Agrarian Protectionism in the Weimar Republic', Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Oct. 1977), p. 765.
^ Gessner, p. 765.
^ Gessner, p. 766.
^ Larry Eugene Jones. (May 2009). 'German Conservatism at the Crossroads: Count Kuno von Westarp and the Struggle for Control of the DNVP, 1928-30', Contemporary European History, 18(2), p. 166.
^ Gessner, p. 771.
^ Jones, p. 174.

External links

Newspaper clippings about Martin Schiele in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Government offices
Preceded by Karl Jarres	Interior Minister of Germany 1925	Succeeded by Otto Gessler
Preceded by Heinrich Haslinde	Minister for Food 1927–1928	Succeeded by Hermann Dietrich
Preceded by Hermann Dietrich	Minister for Food 1930–1932	Succeeded by Magnus Freiherr von Braun