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Friedrich Ebert
Friedrich Ebert was a Social Democratic leader who became head of government when the German monarchy fell in November 1918 and, in February 1919, the first President of Germany. He worked with the army to crush the Spartacist uprising and other left-wing risings, and defended the Weimar Republic against the Kapp Putsch and the crisis of 1923. He died in office in 1925.
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