Martin Schiele (17 January 1870 – 16 February 1939) was a German

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politician. He was part of the leadership of the

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(DNVP) from its 1918 founding until

Alfred Hugenberg Alfred Ernst Christian Alexander Hugenberg (19 June 1865 – 12 March 1951) was an influential German businessman and politician. An important figure in nationalist politics in Germany for the first few decades of the twentieth century, Hugenbe ...

became leader in 1928. He was also the chief representative of the agrarian wing of the DNVP. As a member of

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's coalition government, Schiele secured the restoration of agricultural and industrial

protectionism Protectionism, sometimes referred to as trade protectionism, is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulation ...

with the tariff of 1925. As Minister of Food in 1927–28, he favored state credit as a means for subsidising agriculture. He was persuaded by President Hindenburg to return as Minister of Food in

Heinrich Brüning Heinrich Aloysius Maria Elisabeth Brüning (; 26 November 1885 – 30 March 1970) was a German Centre Party politician and academic, who served as the chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic from 1930 to 1932. A political scienti ...

's cabinet. The

Agricultural League The Imperial Agricultural League (german: Reichs-Landbund) or National Rural League was a German agrarian association during the Weimar Republic which was led by landowners with property east of the Elbe. It was allied with the German National Pe ...

under Schiele's leadership was criticised by

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Agrarian Apparatus. Schiele ceased to be leader of the Agricultural League shortly after the 1930 election. Unhappy with Hugenberg's leadership, Schiele left the DNVP and moved closer to the Conservative People's Party.Jones, p. 174.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schiele, Martin 1870 births 1939 deaths People from Stendal (district) People from the Province of Saxony German Protestants German Conservative Party politicians German National People's Party politicians Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party politicians Interior ministers of Germany Members of the 13th Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the Weimar National Assembly Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic