Friedrich Ebert Biography

Friedrich Ebert, Politician
Occup.Politician
FromGermany
BornFebruary 4, 1871
Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
DiedFebruary 28, 1925
Berlin, Germany
Aged54 years
Friedrich "Fritz" Ebert was a German statesman. He was a Social Democrat and head of government of the Provisionary German Government 1918-1919 as well as the Weimar Republic's initial head of state from 1919 to 1925.

Ebert, who was the son of a tailor, was the initial saddler, joined as a young man to the Social Democratic Party as well as in 1892 became editor of the "Bremer Bürgerzeitung". He was elected in 1900 as a member of the Bremen parliament ("Bürgerschaft") and was the same year, leaders of the working secretariat there, ended up being in 1905 secretary of the Socialist Party's board and, after August Bebel's fatality Party Chairman 1913-19 (very first plus Hugo Haase, then together with Philipp Scheidemann ).

In Parliament he was elected in 1912 (of Elberfeld and Barmen) and also came to be 1916 after Haases withdrawal from the Social Democratic parliamentary group, its leader. In May 1918 he, after Scheidemann, chairman of Parliament's primary committee. Ebert declined in October of that year of Prince Max of Baden used an area in his cupboard as well as provided November 7 to his Social Democratic Party Executive warning of the Emperor's abdication, crown prince's sequence to the resignation, and so on.

Transformation Day November 9 handed Prince Max chancellor of the product to Ebert, who got it, but under the stress of occasions November 10th discovered themselves urged to rather get in as one of the 6 "individuals's ombudsman 'in a provisionary sexmannaregering, where he shared the Bureau of the oavhängige Social Democrat Haase. After the Independents withdrawal from the federal government (28 December the exact same year) was Ebert formally its leader, Gustav Noske as its major driving force. Of the Weimar sammanträdda National Assembly he was elected February 11, 1919 with 277 of 328 ballots (51 abstained from ballot, as well as 49 elected Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner) to the provisionary National President and selected as Scheidemann to the Minister.

During his parliamentary job had actually manna Ebert has actually emerged as a moderate and also deliberate southerly German of anything yet cutting edge orientation, and after the 1918 revolution, he has as a federal government participant and also nationwide president after the discussion event looked for to prevent more hurried upheavals. His association with both Social Democratic and also bourgeois rikskanslerer was great as well as overall, managed to fully play its function in counter-party problems. Outwardly he showed up basic as well as dignified, and also mockery against him from the bourgeois right instructions, in some cases shows up at the start of his management, was silent after that. He is hidden in Heidelberg.

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3 Famous quotes by Friedrich Ebert

Small: Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary
"Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary"
Small: Freedom and Justice are twin sisters
"Freedom and Justice are twin sisters"
Small: Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million n
"Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation"