Ebert, Friedrich

*		1871
†		1925

Beruf
German politician

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	after 1889, member of the SPD
	1900 member of the Bremen municipal council
	1912, delegate to the Reichstag
	1913, after the death of August Bebel, one of the leaders of the SPD, he plays a leading role in the so-called January strike of 1918
	on November 9, 1918, designated Reichs Chancellor
	in November 1918, chairman of the revolutionary government, the council of people’s delegates, in coalition with the USPD (Independent Social Democratic Party)
	1919 elected provisional Reichs President by the National Assembly. The majority required to amend the constitution extends his term in 1922