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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background(set)
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin Пётр Аркадьевич Столыпин
The premier who held the gallows in one hand and reform in the other
Government and administration · Russian Empire
1862–1911
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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
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1865–1939
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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
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1867–1929
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Gustav Bauer Gustav Bauer
Social Democratic chancellor whose government accepted the Treaty of Versailles under an Allied ultimatum
Political and party leadership · Germany state institutions
1870–1944
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Hermann Müller Hermann Müller
A Social Democratic politician of the Weimar Republic who served twice as chancellor.
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1876–1931
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Wilhelm Cuno Wilhelm Cuno
Non-party chancellor who answered the Ruhr occupation with passive resistance and fell amid hyperinflation
Political and party leadership · Germany state institutions
1876–1933
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Konrad Adenauer Konrad Adenauer
The chancellor who made provisional statehood durable
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1876–1967
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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
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1878–1964
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Evgenia Bogdanovna Bosch Евгения Богдановна Бош
First woman to lead a Soviet government, between revolution and terminal illness
Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine
1879–1925
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Otto Nuschke Otto Nuschke
Kaiser’s successor at the head of the East German CDU, who brought it into line with the SED as deputy prime minister
Government and administration · East Germany
1883–1957
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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
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1888–1961
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Ernst Reuter Ernst Reuter
The social democrat who became the voice of divided Berlin
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1889–1953
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Ferenc Feketehalmy-Czeydner Feketehalmy-Czeydner Ferenc
Hungarian general who directed the Novi Sad massacre, fled to Germany after his conviction and joined the SS
Military command · Hungary
1890–1946
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Alfred Rosenberg Alfred Rosenberg
Baltic German Nazi ideologue from Reval who served as Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories in 1941–1945
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1893–1946
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Otto Grotewohl Otto Grotewohl
The Social Democrat who led a divided state into being
Government and administration · East Germany
1894–1964
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Hinrich Lohse Hinrich Lohse
Nazi Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein who, as Reichskommissar for Ostland in 1941–1944, ordered the ghettoisation and expropriation of Jews
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1896–1964
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Fritz Selbmann Fritz Selbmann
East German heavy-industry minister who faced the striking workers outside the House of Ministries on 16 June 1953
Industry and production · East Germany
1899–1975
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Fred Oelßner Fred Oelßner
Economist and the SED’s chief ideologue until 1958, when he was expelled from the Politburo in the Schirdewan affair
Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)
1903–1977
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Bruno Leuschner Bruno Leuschner
East German planner who ran planning in the German Economic Commission and then chaired the State Planning Commission
Economy, finance and planning · East Germany
1910–1965
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Willy None Brandt Willy Brandt
A social democrat who made reconciliation a politics of divided cities
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1913–1992
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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
Political and party leadership · Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
1930–2017