The Majority Social Democratic Party of Germany was the name officially used by the Social Democratic Party of Germany between April 1917 and September 1922. The name differentiated it from the Indepe
The Council of the People's Deputies in 1919 when all members were from the MSPD. Left to right: Otto Landsberg, Philipp Scheidemann, Gustav Noske, Friedrich Ebert, Rudolf Wissell
Eduard Bernstein, who began the reformist movement within the SPD, in 1895
Karl Liebknecht of the SPD, a leading anti-war figure, shown here in 1912
Friedrich Ebert, leader of the MSPD and republican Germany's first president, in 1918
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
Majority Social Democratic Party of Germany
…SPD as a result of the party majority's support of the government during the First World War. Governments led by the MSPD steered Germany through the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the first years of the Weimar Republic. They followed a moderate course towards a parliamentary system and often used military force against the…
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.
Kiel mutiny: the soldiers' council of the battleship Prinzregent Luitpold. The sign reads in part "Long live the socialist republic."
Proclamation of the Bremen Soviet Republic outside the city hall on 15 November 1918