Alfred Hugenberg (June 19, 1865 - March 12, 1951) was an influential German businessman and politician. June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining. ... 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...

Born as the son of Karl Hugenberg, a member of the Prussian parliament, he studied Law in Göttingen, Heidelberg, and Berlin, as well as Economics in Strasbourg. The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (Old Prussian: PrÅ«sa, German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: PrÅ«sai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad... Landmark Gänseliesel fountain at the main market Göttingen ( (help· info)) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... Heidelberg (halfway between Stuttgart and Frankfurt) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... (help· info), IPA: , is the capital city as well as a state of Germany, and also the countrys largest city. ... City motto: – City proper (commune) Région Alsace Département Bas-Rhin (67) Mayor Fabienne Keller (UMP) (since 2001) Land area 78. ...

In 1900, Hugenberg married his second-degree cousin, Gertrud Adickens. 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ...

After holding various positions in the administration, banking, and steel industry, from 1916 on, Hugenberg began building the later famous Hugenberg-Konzern, a conglomeration of publishing, film, and newspaper companies, including news and advertising agencies. At the beginning of the 1920s, Hugenberg exerted substantial influence on the right-wing press in Germany. It has been suggested that Roaring Twenties be merged into this article or section. ...

In 1918, Hugenberg joined the Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP, German National People's Party), which he represented in the National Assembly (that would produce the 1919 constitution of the Weimar Republic) and later in the Reichstag, the Republic's parliament. He remained a member of parliament until 1945, even after the DNVP was dissolved together with all other parties in 1933, as a "guest" of the NSDAP. He became chairman of the DNVP after a disastrous defeat in the 1928 general elections. 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... The German National Peoples Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei) (DNVP) was a right wing national-conservative party in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. ... Flag of Weimar Republic, 1919–1933 This article outlines political events from 1918 until the collapse of the Republic in 1933. ... The Reichstag (German for Imperial Diet) was the parliament of the Holy Roman Empire, the North German Confederation, and of Germany until 1945. ... The Nazi swastika symbol The National Socialist German Workers Party ( German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ...

Hugenberg moved the party in a much more radical direction than it had taken under its previous leader, Kuno Count Westarp. He hoped to use radical nationalism to restore the party's fortunes, and eventually, to overthrow the Weimar constitution and install a new, authoritarian form of government. Under Hugenberg's leadership the DNVP also toned down or abandoned the monarchism which had characterized the party in its earlier years. Controversy over Hugenberg's radicalism led many of the more conservative party deputies to defect and form the Conservative People's Party (Germany) (KVP). The Conservative Peoples Party (Konservative Volkspartei or KVP) was a short-lived German political party of the moderate right. ...

In the last years of the Weimar Republic until the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Reichskanzler (Chancellor) in 1933, the DNVP (under the lead of Hugenberg) cooperated with the NSDAP to oppose the cabinet of Heinrich Brüning and, to an extent, the Republic as a whole. However, after the NSDAP became increasingly powerful, Hugenberg instead chose to support Franz von Papen in 1932. He also became Minister for Economy, Agriculture, and Alimentation in Hitler's first cabinet in 1933, hoping that Hitler's rise to power would not last long. (help· info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. ... The German head of government has been known as the Chancellor (German: Kanzler) ever since the creation of the post. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Dr. Heinrich Brüning (November 26, 1885–March 30, 1970) was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany. ... Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen (29 October 1879 – 2 May 1969) was a German politician and diplomat. ...

In June however, he was forced to resign from all offices; in the years from 1933 to 1944, he was successively coerced into selling his media companies piece by piece to the Nazis.

After the war, Hugenberg was detained by the British. He died March 12, 1951, near Rinteln. Weser watershed Rinteln is a small town in Lower Saxony, Germany. ...