The German workers' and soldiers' councils of 1918–1919 were short-lived revolutionary bodies that carried the German revolution to cities across the German Empire during the final days of World War I
The Reich Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils meeting in Berlin on 16 December 1918
The soldiers' council of the battleship Prinzregent Luitpold in November 1918. The sign reads, "Soldiers' council Prinzregent Luitpold. Long live the socialist republic."
Friedrich Ebert, the SPD leader who effectively controlled the Council of the People's Deputies
The Council of the People's Deputies. From left to right: Barth, Landsberg, Ebert, Haase, Dittmann, Scheidemann
The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution, brought down the German Empire at the end of World War I and set the stage for the establishment of the Weimar Republic. The
German workers' and soldiers' councils 1918–1919
…German workers' and soldiers' councils of 1918–1919 (German: Deutsche Arbeiter- und Soldatenräte) were short-lived revolutionary bodies that carried the German revolution to cities across the German Empire during the final days of World War I. Meeting little to no resistance, they formed quickly, took over city governments…
Proclamation of the republic by Philipp Scheidemann at the Reichstag building in Berlin, 9 November 1918
Erich Ludendorff in 1918. His calculated shifting of responsibility for the war's loss from the army to the civilian government gave rise to the stab-in-the-back myth.
Proclamation of the Bremen Soviet Republic outside the city hall on 15 November 1918