Bruening to Come Back to Harvard In Fall to Lecture

Heinrich Bruening, former Chancellor of the German Republic, will return to Harvard next September as a lecturer on Government, the University announced today. During the first half year of 1938-39 he will conduct a graduate seminar in "Government Regulation of Industry; Some Post-War Experiments in European Industrial Control."

Undergraduates have known him this year as a tall bespectacled German with only a slight accent, who spoke frequently in the Houses before he left at midyears to lecture for the rest of the winter at Oxford University.

It was in March, 1930, that Bruening succeeded socialist Hermann Mueller as Chancellor of the Weimar Republic under President Paul von Hindenburg. As Parliamentary chairman of the German center party, he represented the moderates who desired to uphold the peace treaties of 1919 and to stand by the League of Nations.

Soon after the Nazi majority in the diet election of May, 1932, Bruening was forced to resign by the more extreme conservatives, to be succeeded the next winter by Fritz von Papen, who carried through Hitler's coup d'etat.

In February, 1936, Bruening, exiled from Germany, visited Cambridge for the first time and delivered the Godkin Lectures. At that time he blamed the Nazi success on the unpopularity of the Reichstag because it had to tax so heavily to meet the World War debts.