First Wirth cabinet

First Cabinet of Joseph Wirth
5th Cabinet of Weimar Germany
10 May 1921 – 22 October 1921 (until 26 October 1921 as caretaker government)
Chancellor Joseph Wirth
Date formed	10 May 1921 (1921-05-10)
Date dissolved	26 October 1921 (1921-10-26) (5 months and 16 days)
People and organisations
President	Friedrich Ebert
Chancellor	Joseph Wirth
Vice-Chancellor	Gustav Bauer
Member parties	Centre Party   Social Democratic Party   German Democratic Party
Status in legislature	Minority Weimar Coalition[a] 206 / 459 (45%)
Opposition parties	Independent Social Democratic Party   German National People's Party   Communist Party of Germany
History
Election	1920 federal election
Legislature term	1st Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Predecessor	Fehrenbach cabinet
Successor	Second Wirth cabinet

The first Wirth cabinet, headed by Chancellor Joseph Wirth of the Centre Party, was the fifth democratically elected government of the Weimar Republic. On 10 May 1921 it replaced the Fehrenbach cabinet, which had resigned as a result of differing opinions among its members over the payment of war reparations to the Allied powers. It was based on the Weimar Coalition made up of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Centre Party and the German Democratic Party (DDP).

The cabinet won the Reichstag's approval for the Allies' reparations demands and began the war crimes trials required by the Treaty of Versailles. It resigned on 22 October 1921 in protest over the partition of Silesia by the League of Nations following the Upper Silesia plebiscite. The cabinet stayed on as a caretaker government until it was replaced on 26 October by a second cabinet led by Wirth.

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