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
- Max von Baden Max von Baden Last chancellor of the German Empire, who sought the armistice, announced the emperor’s abdication and handed power to Ebert
- 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.
- Wilhelm Cuno Wilhelm Cuno Non-party chancellor who answered the Ruhr occupation with passive resistance and fell amid hyperinflation
- Konrad Adenauer Konrad Adenauer The chancellor who made provisional statehood durable
- Andreas Hermes Andreas Hermes Weimar finance minister who founded the CDU in the Soviet zone in 1945 and was deposed for opposing the land reform
- Jakob Kaiser Jakob Kaiser Christian Democrat who led the CDU in the Soviet zone until SMAD removed him, then became West Germany’s minister for all-German affairs
- Ernst Reuter Ernst Reuter The social democrat who became the voice of divided Berlin
- Alfred Rosenberg Alfred Rosenberg Baltic German Nazi ideologue from Reval who served as Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories in 1941–1945
- Hinrich Lohse Hinrich Lohse Nazi Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein who, as Reichskommissar for Ostland in 1941–1944, ordered the ghettoisation and expropriation of Jews
- Willy None Brandt Willy Brandt A social democrat who made reconciliation a politics of divided cities
- Helmut Josef Michael Kohl Helmut Kohl The chancellor who seized the initiative on the German question with a ten-point unification plan days before Malta