A 1919 press portrait of Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925) , 1st President of German Republic under the Weimar Republic constitution in a top hat. He was a moderate German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and served from 1919 until his death in office in 1925. His political positions / titles included President of the German Reich, Chancellor of the German Reich (Weimar Republic) and Prime Minister of Prussia, He was also an editor of the socialist Bremer Bürgerzeitung and had formerly been a journeyman saddlemaker by trade.

---

Size: 4237px × 5906px
Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1919, 1st, apprenticed, bremer, chancellor, constitution, controversial, democratic, democrats, ebert, editor, empire, friedrich, german, germanic, germany, hat, hatted, journal, journeyman, kapp, kapp–üttwitz, maker, minister, moderate, party, politician, politics, portrait, president, prime, prussia, prussian, putsch, reich, republic, resident, revolution, revolutionary, saddle, saddle-maker, saddlemaker, social, socialism, top, top-hatted, weimar, ürgerzeitung