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Brüning

British  
/ ˈbryːnɪŋ /

noun

  1. Heinrich . (ˈhainrɪç). 1885–1970, German statesman; chancellor (1930–32). He was forced to resign in 1932, making way for the Nazis

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Brüning settled for another round of austerity, not realising that for voters there was a third choice: a party that insisted that national solutions were the answer to a broken international system.

From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2017

By 1932, the austerity policies of the German chancellor Heinrich Brüning were discredited and Adolf Hitler was on course to replace him.

From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2017

In the hope that the creditor nations would respond by eventually canceling those reparations, Brüning slashed social spending and investment.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2015

They say there are too many similarities between the cuts made by Mr. Brüning and those Mrs. Merkel has demanded of euro zone partners.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2011

In 1878, the firm of Meister, Lucius & Brüning of Höchst-on-the-Main gave a further impetus to the utilization of naphthalene by discovering two isomeric disulpho-acids of beta-naphthol formed by heating that phenol with sulphuric acid.

From Coal and What We Get from It by Meldola, Raphael