Cannes conference

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The Cannes conference took place from January 6th to 13th, 1922 between representatives of the victorious powers of the First World War and Germany. It was about reparations issues . It was decided to convene the World Economic Conference in Genoa .

The German Reich government , which was unable to pay the planned reparations payments of two billion gold marks per year, urged the victorious powers to negotiate in order to obtain a deferment of payments. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and French Prime Minister Aristide Briand convened the meeting on behalf of the Allied Supreme Council. The representative for Germany was Walther Rathenau , who at that time was not yet officially Foreign Minister. Rathenau justified the German request with reference to the high German deficit . He found understanding for this particularly in Lloyd George. Rathenau managed to postpone payments. Nevertheless, from January 18, 1922, Germany had to transfer 31 million marks every ten days.

At the conference, Lloyd George proposed a comprehensive political agreement for Europe that would also take French security interests into account. An agreement was not reached, since in France Briand was replaced by the unyielding Raymond Poincaré . It was decided to convene a world economic conference in Genoa .

literature

  • Michael Behnen : Cannes Conference. In: Gerhard Taddey (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German history . People, events, institutions. From the turn of the times to the end of the 2nd World War. 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-520-80002-0 , pp. 195f.
  • Helmuth KG Rönnefahrt, Heinrich Euler: Conferences and contracts. Contract Ploetz. Handbook of Historically Significant Meetings and Agreements. Part II. Volume 4: Latest Times, 1914–1959. 2nd expanded and changed edition. Ploetz Verlag, Würzburg 1959, p. 71.