People of the Revolution and the USSR
- 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
- 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.
- Ernst Reuter Ernst Reuter The social democrat who became the voice of divided Berlin
- Willy None Brandt Willy Brandt A social democrat who made reconciliation a politics of divided cities