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Friedrich Ebert (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈeːbɐt] ⓘ; 4 February 1871 – 28 February 1925) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the first president of Germany from 1919 until his death in office in 1925.
Friedrich Ebert, the first president of Germany. On 11 February 1919, the Weimar National Assembly elected Friedrich Ebert of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) the first Reich president by a vote of 379 to 277. [7]
The President Friedrich Ebert Foundation Memorial (Stiftung Reichspräsident-Friedrich-Ebert-Gedenkstätte) in Heidelberg is a non-partisan foundation financed by the German Federal Government. It commemorates the life and work of Friedrich Ebert , who was born in the house on 4 February 1871.
The Council consisted of Friedrich Ebert, Philipp Scheidemann and Otto Landsberg from the MSPD, and Hugo Haase, Wilhelm Dittmann and Emil Barth of the USPD. Ebert and Haase were to be equal chairmen. Scheidemann emphasised the equal rights of all members and called the Council of the People's Deputies a "six-man chancellor."
A revolutionary government met for the first time in November 1918. Known as the Council of People's Commissioners, it consisted of three Majority Social Democrats (Friedrich Ebert, Philipp Scheidemann, and Otto Landsberg) and three Independent Social Democrats (Emil Barth, Wilhelm Dittmann, and Hugo Haase). The new government faced a social ...
Friedrich Ebert, leader of the MSPD and republican Germany's first president, in 1918 On 9 September 1918, in the early days of the German Revolution of 1918–1919 that followed Germany's defeat, Prince Maximilian von Baden , the last chancellor of the German Empire, handed the government over to Friedrich Ebert as head of the party with the ...
The FES was named after Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925), the Social Democratic President of Germany, 1919–1925.In his will, he specified that the proceeds from donations at his funeral should be used to create a foundation.
Ebert was born at Taucha, near Leipzig, the son of a Lutheran pastor. At the age of fifteen, Friedrich was appointed to a subordinate post in the municipal library of Leipzig. He studied theology for a short time at Leipzig, and afterwards philology at Wittenberg, where he received a PhD in 1812. While still a student in 1811, he had already ...