Person1871 – 1925
Friedrich Ebert
Leader of the Social Democratic Party who took over as chancellor in the German Revolution of 1918 and became the first president of the Weimar Republic (1919–1925)
Where they went
2 related events
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A mutiny of sailors at the naval port of Kiel spread across the country; Wilhelm II abdicated and Germany became a republic, with the Social Democrat Ebert at the head of a provisional government.
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Germany’s National Assembly met at Weimar, elected Ebert president and drew up the Weimar Constitution — a democratic charter with universal suffrage for men and women and social rights.
People who appear alongside
- Wilhelm II1859 – 1941
Last German emperor (1888–1918), whose Weltpolitik and naval build-up set Germany against Britain; he abdicated in the German Revolution of 1918 and went into exile in the Netherlands
Themes this person appears in
- World War I and the Russian Revolution1908 – 1923
From the Balkan crises to a war of trenches and total mobilization that toppled four empires; the Russian Revolution it unleashed, which created the first socialist state; and the Versailles settlement of national self-determination and the League of Nations