Daily Quiz for December 7, 2011

Heinrich Bruning. Appointed chancellor in 1930, Bruning was asked to rescue Weimar Germany’s economy during the period of the Great Depression. To combat chronic unemployment, he planned to break up landed estates in Prussia and allow families from the cities to live and work on the land. Not surprisingly, he met resistance from the landed class and never got the support of President Paul von Hindenburg, who dismissed him in favor of Hitler.