People of the Revolution and the USSR
Government and administration
Background: Germany
The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945
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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
- 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
- Ferenc Feketehalmy-Czeydner Feketehalmy-Czeydner Ferenc Hungarian general who directed the Novi Sad massacre, fled to Germany after his conviction and joined the SS
- 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