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Friedrich Ludwig von Payer (12 June 1847 – 14 July 1931) was a German lawyer,

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and the vice-chancellor of German Empire during the last year of

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. He was born in

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and was educated at the

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, returning to his home town to study

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in 1865. Having completed his university education, he worked as a lawyer in Stuttgart and was first elected to the Reichstag in 1877. He reached the height of his political career during the First World War during which he advocated a negotiated peace with the allied powers and was appointed

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. After the war, he was chairman of the

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and remained a member of the new Weimar Reichstag until 6 June 1920. Payer married Alwine Schöninger.

References

*Günther Bradler, ''Politische Unterhaltungen Friedrich Payers mit

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. Ein Fund aus dem Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart'', in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte (ZWLG), Jahrgang 1973, Seiten 161-192. *Günther Bradler, ''Friedrich Payer. Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen und Dokumente'', Göppingen 1974. *Reinhold A. Helmut Franz, ''Das Problem der konstitutionellen Parlamentarisierung bei Conrad Haußmann und Friedrich von Payer'', Göppingen 1977. *''Friedrich Payer zum Gedenken'', Reutlingen 1997.

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