Who's
Who - Politicians
Updated - Saturday, 17 July, 2004
This sub-section of the Who's Who category of the site contains folio biographies of the politicians who guided belligerent nations throughout four years of war from 1914-18.
They include entries for the two British wartime Prime Ministers, the U.S. President (and his two secretaries of state), plus the three German Chancellors who found themselves subordinated to the German military machine.
In addition to the biographies presented below, click here to view contemporary photographs of politicians within the Vintage Photographs section of the site.
 Viktor
Adler, Social Democrat
(Austria-Hungary) |
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Sir
William Maxwell Aitken, Minister of
Information (UK) |
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Sir
James Allen, Minister of Defence (New
Zealand) |
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Julius
Andrassy, Foreign Minister
(Austria-Hungary) |
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Herbert
Henry Asquith, Prime Minister (UK) |
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Moritz
von Auffenberg, Minister of War
(Austria-Hungary) |
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Jean
Augagneur, Minister of Marine
(France) |
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Alexandru
Averescu, Prime Minister
(Romania) |
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Prince
Max von Baden, Chancellor
(Germany) |
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Newton
Baker, Secretary of War (US) |
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Arthur
Balfour, Foreign Secretary (UK) |
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Otto
Bauer, Foreign Secretary
(Austria) |
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Lord
Beaverbrook, Minister of
Information (UK) |
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Eduard
Benes, Foreign Minister (Czechoslovakia) |
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Count
Leopold von Berchtold, Foreign
Minister (Austria) |
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Count
von Bernstorff, Ambassador to
U.S. (Germany) |
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Theobald
von Bethmann-Hollweg,
Chancellor (Germany) |
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Otto
von Bismarck, 19th Century
Chancellor (Germany) |
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Andrew
Bonar Law, Conservative Leader (UK) |
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Sir
Robert Borden, Prime Minister
(Canada) |
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Paolo
Boselli, Prime Minister (Italy) |
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Louis
Botha, Prime Minister (South
Africa) |
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Ion
Bratianu, Prime Minister
(Romania) |
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Aristide
Briand, Prime Minister (France) |
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Baron
Charles de Broqueville, Prime
Minister (Belgium) |
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Lord
Bryce, Author, Bryce Report
(UK) |
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Count
Istvan Burian von Rajecz,
Foreign Minister (Austria) |
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William
Jennings Bryan, Secretary of
State (US) |
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John
Buchan, Director of Information
(UK) |
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Joseph
Caillaux, Prime Minister
(France) |
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Paul
Cambon, Foreign Minister
(France) |
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Eduard
von Capelle, Naval Minister
(Germany) |
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Sir
Edward Carson, Leader, UVF (UK) |
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Sir
Winston Churchill, First Lord of
the Admiralty (UK) |
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Heinrich
von Clam-Martinic, Prime Minister
(Austria) |
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Georges
Clemenceau, Prime Minister
(France) |
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Ottokar
Czernin, Foreign Minister
(Austria-Hungary) |
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Alfredo
Dallolio, Minister of Munitions
(Italy) |
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Josephus
Daniels, Secretary of the Navy
(US) |
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Gabriele
D'Annunzio, Politician/Soldier
(Italy) |
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Augustin
Boue de Lapeyrere, Minister of
War (France) |
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Theophile
Delcasse, Minister for Foreign
Affairs (France) |
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Lord
Derby, Minister of War (UK) |
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Mehmed
Djaved Bey, Finance Minister
(Turkey) |
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Ahmed
Djemal Pasha, Military Governor
of Syria (Turkey) |
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Constantin
Dumba, Ambassador to US
(Austria-Hungary) |
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Friedrich
Ebert, Chancellor (Germany) |
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Enver
Pasha, Minister of War (Turkey) |
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Matthias
Erzberger, Politician (Germany) |
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Andrew
Fisher, Prime Minister (Australia) |
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Lindley
Garrison, Secretary of War (US) |
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Sir
Auckland Geddes, Minister of
National Service (UK) |
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Sir
Eric Geddes, First Lord of the
Admiralty (UK) |
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James
W. Gerard, U.S. Ambassador
to Germany (US) |
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Ivan
Goremykin, Prime Minister
(Russia) |
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Sir
Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary (UK) |
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Ivan
Grigorovich, Naval Minister
(Russia) |
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Wilhelm
Groener, General (Germany) |
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Alexander
Guchkov, Minister of War
(Russia) |
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Hugo
Haase, Co-chairman of SPD Party
(Germany) |
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Lord
Haldane, Lord Chancellor
(UK) |
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Warren
G Harding, President (US) |
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Alfred
Harmsworth, Director of Propaganda
(Ireland) |
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Karl
Helfferich, Minister of
Finance/Interior (Germany) |
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Count
Hertling, Chancellor (Germany) |
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Paul
von Hintze, Foreign Minister
(Germany) |
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Miklos
Horthy de Nagybanya, Regent
(Hungary) |
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Colonel
House, Special Advisor to
President Wilson (US) |
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Billy
Hughes, Prime Minister (Australia) |
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Sam
Hughes, Minister of Militia and
Defence (Canada) |
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Baron
Max Hussarek von Heinlein, Prime Minister (Austria) |
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Paul
Hymans, Foreign Secretary
(Belgium) |
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Ahmed
Izzet Pasha, Grand Vizier
(Turkey) |
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Gottlieb
von Jagow, Foreign Minister
(Germany) |
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Jean
Jaures, Socialist Party Leader
(France) |
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Count
Karolyi,
Prime Minister (Hungary) |
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Mustafa
Kemal Pasha, Post-war President
(Turkey) |
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Alexander
Kerenski, Leader, Prov.
Govt. (Russia) |
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Lord
Kitchener, Minister of War (UK) |
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Alexander
Krivoshein, Minister of
Agriculture (Russia) |
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Ernst
von Korber, Minister-President
(Austria-Hungary) |
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Karel
Kramar, Independence
Campaigner
(Czechoslovakia) |
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Alexander
von Krobatin, Minister of War
(Austria-Hungary) |
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Bela
Kun, Prime Minister (Hungary) |
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Marie-Jean-Lucien
Lacaze, Minister of Marine (France) |
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Heinrich
Lammasch, Minister-President
(Austria) |
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Robert
Lansing, Secretary of State
(US) |
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Sir
Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister
(Canada) |
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Karl
Liebknecht, Revolutionary
Politician (Germany) |
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Walter
Lippmann, Assistant to
Secretary of War (US) |
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David
Lloyd George, Prime Minister (UK) |
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Henry
Cabot Lodge, Senate Majority
Leader (US) |
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Rosa
Luxemburg, Revolutionary
(Germany) |
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Prince
Georgy Lvov, Prime Minister
(Russia) |
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Hubert
Lyautey, War Minister (France) |
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Nikolai
Maklakov, Minister of the
Interior (Russia) |
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Alexander
Malinov, Prime Minister
(Bulgaria) |
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Louis
Malvy, Minister of the Interior
(France) |
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Alexandru
Marghiloman, Prime Minister
(Romania) |
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Tomas
Masaryk, President
(Czechoslovakia) |
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William
Massey, Prime Minister
(New Zealand) |
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Charles
Masterman, Head of War Propaganda
(UK) |
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William
McAdoo, Treasury Secretary (US) |
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Reginald
McKenna, Home Secretary (UK) |
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Georg
Michaelis, Chancellor (Germany) |
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Alexandre
Millerand, Minister of War
(France) |
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Lord
Alfred Milner, Minister of War
(UK) |
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Henry
Morgenthau, U.S. Ambassador to
Turkey (US) |
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Benito
Mussolini, Future Fascist
Dictator (Italy) |
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Lord
Northcliffe, Director of Propaganda
(Ireland) |
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Gustav
Noske, Politician (Germany) |
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Vittorio
Orlando, Prime Minister (Italy) |
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Ignace
Paderewski, Prime Minister (Poland) |
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Paul
Painleve, Prime Minister
(France) |
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Nikola
Pasic, Prime Minister (Serbia) |
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Josef
Pilsudski, General
(Poland) |
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Raymond
Poincare, President (France) |
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Alexei
Polivanov, Minister of War
(Russia) |
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Vasil
Radoslavov, Prime Minister
(Russia) |
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Walter
Rathenau, Head of KRA (Germany) |
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Alexandre
Ribot, Prime Minister (France) |
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Mikhail
Rodzianko, Duma President
(Russia) |
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Said
Halim Pasha, Grand Vizier
(Turkey) |
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Antonio
Salandra, Prime Minister
(Italy) |
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Marquis
di San Giuliano, Foreign Minister
(Italy) |
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Sergei
Sazonov, Foreign Minister
(Russia) |
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Philip
Scheidemann, President, Weimar
Rep. (Germany) |
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Dmitry
Shuvaev, Minister of War
(Russia) |
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Jan
Christian Smuts, Prime Minister
(South Africa) |
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Wilhelm
Solf, Colonial/Foreign Minister
(Germany) |
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Sidney
Sonnino, Foreign Minister
(Italy) |
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Alexander
Stamboliski, Anti-Monarchist
(Bulgaria) |
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R.
Stoger-Steiner v Steinstatten,
War Minister (Austria) |
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Gustav
Stresemann, Post-war Chancellor
(Germany) |
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Count
Karl von Sturgkh, Minister-President
(Austria) |
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Boris
Sturmer, Prime Minister
(Russia) |
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Vladimir
Sukhomlinov, Minister of War
(Russia) |
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Mehmed
Talaat Pasha, Minister of the
Interior (Turkey) |
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Albert
Thomas, Under-Secretary for
Munitions (France) |
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Christopher
Thomson, Military Attaché to
Romania (UK) |
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Count
Tisza, Hungarian Prime Minister
(Austria-Hungary) |
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Ante
Trumbic, Foreign Minister
(Croatia) |
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Eleutherios
Venizelos, Prime Minister
(Greece) |
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Rene
Viviani, Prime Minister
(France) |
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Sir
Joseph Ward, Prime Minister
(New Zealand) |
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Alexander
Wekerle, Prime Minister
(Hungary) |
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Kuno
von Westarp, Politician
(Germany) |
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Brand
Whitlock, Ambassador to Belgium
(US) |
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Woodrow
Wilson, President (US) |
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Nikola
Zhekov, Minister of War
(Bulgaria) |
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Arthur
Zimmermann, Foreign Secretary
(Germany) |
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