CUNO, WILHELM (1876-1933), German statesman, was born on July 2, 1876, at Suhl. He entered the civil service and was employed from 19o7 in the treasury. During the World War he was in charge of the imperial grain office until July 1916; he was then Batocki's chief assistant in the food department until Nov. 1917, when he became a director of the Hamburg-Amerika line. At the end of 1918 he succeeded Ballin as president and general director. Dr. Cuno always took an active part in national politics, although he has never stood for parliament. As a result of the murder of Erzberger on Aug. 26, 1921, and of Rathenau on June 24, 1922, which had shaken national confidence, a minis terial crisis, inspired by the socialist distrust of Herr Stinnes re sulted in the resignation of the Wirth government on Nov. 14. Dr. Cuno then formed a non-party cabinet, in which there were no social democrats, with Dr. von Rosenberg as foreign minister, the chief task being the direction of national opposition to the French in the Ruhr. A financial crisis following the disastrous fall of the mark obliged Dr. Cuno to resign on Aug. 12, 1923, and he then returned to the presidency of the Hamburg-Amerika shipping company. It is perhaps worth noting that the idea of a pact, which eventually developed under Dr. Cuno's successors into the Locarno Pact, was already mooted by him during his chancellorship (see E. C. Reventlow, Minister Stresemann als Stwstsmann, etc.