Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (20 March 1891 in Schieder

Schieder-Schwalenberg

Schieder-Schwalenberg is a town in the Lippe district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approx. 20 km east of Detmold.It consists of 8 communes, which have been combined to a town in 1970...

 – 7 June 1971 in Florence

Florence

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) was a German politician from the DNVP

German National People's Party

The German National People's Party was a national conservative party in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. Before the rise of the NSDAP it was the main nationalist party in Weimar Germany composed of nationalists, reactionary monarchists, völkisch, and antisemitic elements, and...

 and a Reichsminister in both of Heinrich Brüning

Heinrich Brüning

Heinrich Brüning was Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932, during the Weimar Republic. He was the longest serving Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, and remains a controversial figure in German politics....

's cabinets. In the first he was Minister for Occupied Areas (March – October 1930) and then Minister without Portfolio (October 1930 – October 1931); in the second (October 1931 – May 1932), he served as Minister of Transport.