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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. Ebert was elected leader of the SPD on the death in 1913 of August Bebel.
The Social Democratic Party has its origins in the General German Workers' Association, founded in 1863, and the Social Democratic Workers' Party, founded in 1869. The two groups merged in 1875 to create the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands).
On 26 September 1990 the Social Democratic Party in the GDR dissolve itself and joined the Western Social Democratic Party of Germany and becoming one single party again. Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), since 1990 Hans-Jochen Vogel: 26 September 1990 – 29 May 1991: Björn Engholm: 29 May 1991 – 3 May 1993: Resigned after political ...
Otto Wels (15 September 1873 – 16 September 1939) was a German politician who served as a member of the Reichstag from 1912 to 1933 and as the chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1919 until his death in 1939.
Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht (German: [ˈliːpknɛçt] ⓘ; 13 August 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a German politician and revolutionary socialist.A leader of the far-left wing of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Liebknecht was a co-founder of the Spartacus League and Communist Party of Germany (KPD) along with Rosa Luxemburg.
At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the SPD supported the German war effort, after which Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht founded the anti-war Spartacus League, which became affiliated with the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) in 1917; the pair were arrested in 1916 for their activities and imprisoned until the November ...
When World War I started, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) was the one socialist political party of any significance in the German Empire and as such played a major role in the revolution. It had been banned from 1878–1890 and in 1914 continued to adhere to the tenets of class conflict. It had international ties to other countries ...
Philipp Heinrich Scheidemann (26 July 1865 – 29 November 1939) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In the first quarter of the 20th century he played a leading role in both his party and in the young Weimar Republic.