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- Philipp Scheidemann Philipp Scheidemann SPD politician who proclaimed the republic from a Reichstag window on 9 November 1918 and became Weimar’s first head of government
- Kurt Eisner Kurt Eisner Journalist who overthrew the Bavarian monarchy in Munich in November 1918, proclaimed the People’s State and was assassinated the next year
- Gustav Noske Gustav Noske SPD defence minister who said “someone has to be the bloodhound” and used the Freikorps to crush the left risings of 1919
- Gustav Bauer Gustav Bauer Social Democratic chancellor whose government accepted the Treaty of Versailles under an Allied ultimatum
- Hermann Müller Hermann Müller A Social Democratic politician of the Weimar Republic who served twice as chancellor.