Friedrich Ebert 1871–1925

Brilliante Kurzbiografie in englischer Sprache. Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925) hat als erster Reichspräsident die Politik seiner Zeit ganz wesentlich geprägt. Der Sozialdemokrat nutzte die Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten seines Amtes, um die von Krisen geschüttelte Weimarer Republik zu stabilisieren und innerlich zu befrieden.

A glittering short biography in English. Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925), first president of the German Republic, exerted a major influence over the politics of his time. The Social Democrat used all the means available to him to stabilise the crisis-ridden Weimar Republic and restore domestic peace. Walter Mühlhausen traces Ebert’s life in short chapters focusing on the principal stages of his personal journey from journeyman saddler to chairman of the SPD and statesman, as well as his political activities. This profound study is the first English-language appraisal of Ebert as a man who paved the way for parliamentary democracy and Germany’s first democratic head of state.