Georg Michaelis

A German jurist, bureaucrat, and politician. During World War I, he served as Chancellor of the German Empire and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia from July to November 1917. He was the first non-nobleman to become Chancellor in the German Empire, selected with the backing of the military following the resignation of his predecessor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. After studying law, he engaged in education related to German law and the German language in Tokyo, Japan, and upon returning home, rose through the ranks as a Prussian bureaucrat. During World War I, he was in charge of grain supply and became a central figure in the administration of food issues. While serving as Chancellor, he did not explicitly support the Reichstag Peace Resolution and took a pro-military stance, deteriorating relations with parliament. His criticism of the Social Democratic Party over the Wilhelmshaven mutiny in 1917 also provoked backlash from parliament, leading to his resignation as Chancellor in November of the same year. From 1918 to 1919, he served as the High President of the Province of Pomerania, after which he engaged in conservative and nationalist political activities, student support, and Protestant church work.

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1857	Birth of Georg Michaelis (Period: September 8, 1857, Location: Haynau (now Chojnów, Poland))
1876	Legal Studies (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1876–1884, Location: Breslau, Leipzig, Würzburg, Göttingen)
1885	Teaching German Law in Tokyo (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1885–1889, Location: Tokyo (Japan))
1889	Advancement as a Prussian Civil Servant (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1889–1909, Location: Berlin, Various Places in Prussia)
1891	Marriage (Georg Michaelis, Margarete Schmidt, Age: 33 years old, Period: 1891, Location: Guben (present-day Guben, Brandenburg, Germany))
1909	Appointment as Prussian Undersecretary of Finance (Georg Michaelis, Age: 51 years old, Period: 1909, Location: Berlin)
1914	World War I (Age: 56 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Europe, Middle East, and Africa)
1915	German Food Crisis in World War I (Age: 57 years old, Period: 1915–1917, Location: German Empire, Prussia) Appointment as Head of the Imperial Grain Office (Georg Michaelis, Age: 57 years old, Period: 1915, Location: Berlin)
1917	Appointment as State Commissioner for Food Supply (Georg Michaelis, Age: 59 years old, Period: February 1917, Location: Berlin, Prussia) Resignation of Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (Georg Michaelis, Age: 59 years old, Period: July 1917, Location: Berlin) Handling of the Peace Resolution (Age: 59 years old, Period: July–August 1917, Location: Berlin, German Reichstag) Appointment as Chancellor of the German Empire and Minister-President of Prussia (Georg Michaelis, Age: 59 years old, Period: July 14, 1917, Location: Berlin) Reichstag Peace Resolution of 1917 (Age: 59 years old, Period: July 19, 1917, Location: Berlin, German Reichstag) Wilhelmshaven Sailor Revolt (Age: 59 years old, Period: August 1917, Location: Wilhelmshaven, German North Sea Coast) Second Kreuznach Conference (Age: 59 years old, Period: August 14, 1917, Location: Germany (Kreuznach)) Conflict with the Reichstag in Autumn 1917 (Age: 59 years old, Period: September–October 1917, Location: Berlin) Resignation as Chancellor (Georg Michaelis, Age: 60 years old, Period: November 1, 1917, Location: Berlin)
1918	High President of the Province of Pomerania (Age: 60 years old, Period: April 1918–March 1919, Location: Stettin, Province of Pomerania)
1920	Participation in the German National People's Party (Age: 62 years old, Period: 1920s, Location: Germany)
1921	Publication of "For State and People" (Age: 63 years old, Period: 1921–1922, Location: Berlin)
1922	Visit to Beijing (Age: 64 years old, Period: 1922, Location: China (Beijing))
1926	Testimony before the Reichstag Investigating Committee (Age: 68 years old, Period: 1926, Location: Berlin, German Reichstag)
1936	Death of Georg Michaelis (Age: 78 years old, Period: July 24, 1936)

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German Leader	Friedrich III Wilhelm II Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg Georg Michaelis Georg von Hertling Max von Baden
Emperors of Austria-Hungary	Franz Joseph I Charles I Archduke Franz Ferdinand Archduke Friedrich Archduke Eugen Zita of Bourbon-Parma
The Sarajevo Incident	Archduke Franz Ferdinand Sophie Chotek Gavrilo Princip Nedeljko Čabrinović Danilo Ilić Leopold Berchtold
Science and Medicine	Albert Einstein Max Planck Sigmund Freud Erwin Schrödinger Lise Meitner Paul Ehrlich

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