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| | FRIEDRICH EBERT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Friedrich Ebert (February 4, 1871—February 28, 1925) was a German politician (SPD), who served as the 9th Chancellor of Germany and its first president during the Weimar period. |
 | | (Ironically, years later, Ebert's son, Friedrich 'Fritz' Ebert, became a Communist, served as Mayor of East Berlin, and briefly acted as East German interim head of state.) When the Constituent Assembly met in Weimar in February, 1919, Ebert was chosen to be the first president of the German Republic. |
 | | In spite of Ebert's support for the violent suppression of revolutionary uprisings, the German workers protected his government from the Kapp Putsch in 1920 by means of a nation-wide general strike. |
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