Friedrich Ebert - Birth of a Republic

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Movie
Original title Friedrich Ebert - Birth of a Republic
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1969
length 70 minutes
Rod
Director Hermann Kugelstadt
script Günter Saemann
music Unknown
camera Unknown
cut Unknown
occupation

Friedrich Ebert - birth of a republic is a ZDF - TV movie , the role of Friedrich Ebert in the early years of the Weimar Republic addressed 1918/19. It was first broadcast on August 1, 1969. It is apparently an independent production, although a week later, on August 8, a subsequent film, also directed by Hermann Kugelstadt , was broadcast by ZDF: Friedrich Ebert and Gustav Stresemann . Fateful years of the republic , in which Ebert's role was again occupied by Kurd Pieritz .

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After the abdication Emperor Wilhelm II. On 9 November 1918. as part of the November Revolution is the SPD chairpersons Friedrich Ebert of Chancellor Prince Max von Baden transfer the Chancellorship. Ebert advocates social democratic ideals such as socialism and democracy and tries to prevent the proclamation of the republic in order to maintain peace and order . But Ebert's party comrade Scheidemann proclaimed a parliamentary republic on the same day in order to forestall the proclamation of a Soviet republic based on the Soviet model by Karl Liebknecht from the Spartacus League . In order to enforce the parliamentary republic, Ebert feels compelled to enter into a strategic alliance with the Supreme Army Command under General Wilhelm Groener , which is now suppressing radical left uprisings across Germany.

criticism

“... He (Friedrich Ebert) and all the others speak the history table as they had x times. Big Ploetz in dialogue form . "

- Hörzu 34/1969, p. 14.

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