Otto Wels
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Otto Wels was a German politician who served as a member of the Reichstag from 1912 to 1933 and as the chairman of the Social Democratic Party from 1919 until his death in 1939. He was the military co
Wels in 1924
Wels's official Reichstag portrait, 1912
The Berlin Palace, with the Emperor Wilhelm Memorial, c. 1900
Wels's official Reichstag portrait, 1932
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