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Cuno, Wilhelm
(vl´hlm k´n) (KEY) , 18761933, German chancellor (Nov., 1922Aug., 1923). A businessman, he headed a nonpartisan conservative ministry. His attempt to establish a moratorium on German reparations payments and his program of passive resistance to French occupation of the Ruhr both failed. During his term of office inflation reached huge proportions.