Philipp Scheidemann

Philipp Scheidemann

Order: 10th Chancellor of Germany
Term of Office: February 13, 1919June 20, 1919
Predecessor: Friedrich Ebert
Successor: Gustav Bauer
Date of Birth: 26 July 1865
Date of Death: 29 November 1939
Political Party: SPD
Profession: Journalist, Politician

Philipp Scheidemann (26 July 186529 November 1939) was a German Social Democratic politician, who was responsible for the proclamation of the Republic on 9 November 1918, and who became the first Chancellor of the Weimar Republic.

Beginning his career as a journalist, Scheidemann became a Reichstag delegate for the Social Democrats in 1903, and soon rose to be one of the principal leaders of the party. During the First World War, Scheidemann, along with Friedrich Ebert was leader of the majority faction of the party, which continued to vote for war credits, while at the same time urging the negotiation of a compromise peace. When the Social Democrats were included in the cabinet for the first time in Prince Max of Baden's government in October 1918, Scheidemann entered the government as a minister without portfolio.

Following the Kaiser's abdication on November 9, Prince Max resigned in favour of Ebert. Although the new government intended to support a constitutional monarchy, probably in the person of one of the Kaiser's grandsons, Scheidemann, concerned in the face of a possible workers' revolution in Berlin, proclaimed the Republic from a balcony in the Reichstag building, without consulting any of his colleagues. The decision proved irrevocable.

Scheidemann continued to serve as a leader in the Provisional Government which followed for the next several months, and following the meeting of the National Assembly in Weimar in February 1919, Ebert was appointed Reich President, and Scheidemann became Chancellor, in coalition with the German Democratic Party and the Catholic Center Party. Scheidemann resigned in June along with the DDP owing to disagreement with the Treaty of Versailles, and never again served in the government, although he remained active in politics, serving as Mayor of Kassel (1920-1925), and then again as a Reichstag delegate, where he exposed military opposition to the Republic. Scheidemann went into exile following the Nazi takeover in 1933, dying in Denmark shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War.

Cabinet February 1919 - June 1919

Changes

Preceded by:
Wilhelm Solf
Colonial Minister of Germany
1918–1919
Followed by:
Johannes Bell
Preceded by:
Count Siegfried von Roedern
Finance Minister of Germany
1918–1919
Followed by:
Eugen Schiffer
Preceded by:
Friedrich Ebert
Chancellor of Germany
1919
Followed by:
Gustav Bauer
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