Paul Moldenhauer

Paul Moldenhauer (2 December 1876 in Cologne – 1 February 1947) was a German cabinet minister, lawyer, economist and politician (DVP).

He undertook several trips to the United States and to England, where he established good relations with academics at leading universities including Princeton, Harvard and Cambridge.

Paul Moldenhauer was dedicated to stabilising Germany's economy and its relations with France, Great Britain and the United States, and was a leading delegate at the Disarmament Conferences in Den Haag 1930 and Geneva 1932.

On 11 November 1928, Moldenhauer was appointed cabinet member and Minister of Trade and Industry (Reichswirtschaftsminister [de]) in Chancellor Hermann Müller’s government.

Paul Moldenhauer was dedicated to stabilising Germany's economy and its relations with France, Great Britain and the United States, and his policies under the Müller government were orientated toward reconciliation and normalisation.

Germany's Cabinet Brüning I (1930): Finance Minister Paul Moldenhauer standing in the second row, second from the right
Ministry of Finance (Reichsministerium der Finanzen) at the Wilhelmplatz in Berlin (1930)
Germany’s Government under Brüning 31 March 1930: seated from left to right interior minister Joseph Wirth (Zentrum), minister of trade and industry Hermann Dietrich (DDP), chancellor Brüning, foreign minister Julius Curtius (DVP), postal minister Georg Schätzel ( BVP ), standing from left to right: minister for Elsass-Lothringen Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus ( Konservative Volkspartei ), minister for agriculture Martin Schiele (DNVP), minister for justice Johann Viktor Bredt ( Wirtschaftspartei ), labour minister Adam Stegerwald (Zentrum), minister of finance Paul Moldenhauer (DVP), traffic minister Theodor von Guérard (Zentrum). Defence minister Wilhelm Groener missing from picture