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...What circumstance brought about the sudden termination of office of President Ebert, first President of the German Republic...
...succeeded President Ebert and became second President of the German Republic...
...Death came to President Ebert...
From February through August, 1919, some four hundred Germans met day after day, in the Theatre at Weimar, Thuringia. They, the National Assembly, dared not foregather in Berlin for fear of mob violence. Fear-spurred, they hastily elected Frederick Ebert first President of the Republic. Deliberate, prudent, they spent six months in evolving the Republican Constitution, consecrated the day of its formal promulgation as a national holiday to be celebrated pompfully each year...
...adjutant rushed to the telephone. Too late. Prince Max had already announced at Berlin on his own responsibility the abdication of Wilhelm II both as Emperor and King. Completely terrified by the mob, Prince Max officially turned over the Imperial Chancellorship to onetime saddlemaker Ebert, leader of the Social Democratic Party, subsequently elected 1st President of the Reich...