What is Friedrich Ebert?
{{Infobox President | name=Friedrich Ebert | image= Bundesarchiv Bild 102-00015, Friedrich Ebert.jpg | caption=Ebert in 1925 | order=1st [[Reich President|President of Germany]] | term_start=11 February 1919 | term_end=28 February 1925 | successor=[[Hans Luther]] (acting) | birth_date={{birth date|1871|2|4|df=y}} | death_date={{death date and age|1925|2|28|1871|2|4|df=y}} | order2=[[Chancellor of Germany]] | term_start2=9 November 1918 | term_end2=11 February 1919 | predecessor2=[[Prince Maximilian of Baden]] | successor2=[[Philipp Scheidemann]] | party=[[SPD]] }} :''This article is about Friedrich Ebert Senior. For his son, who helped to found the [[GDR]] see [[Friedrich Ebert Jr.]]'' '''Friedrich Ebert''' (4 February 1871 in [[Heidelberg]] – 28 February 1925 in [[Berlin]]) was a [[Germany|German]] [[politician]]. He was apart of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party]] (SPD). He was [[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor]] of [[Germany]] and its first [[President of Germany|president]] during the [[Weimar Republic|Weimar]] period. Ebert was a [[Social democracy|social democrat]]. He became leader of the SPD in 1913, when the last leader [[August Bebel]] died. He was an important part of the [[German Revolution of 1918–19]], and when Germany became a [[republic]] he became the first Chancellor. His goal was to make Germany more peaceful. He did this by putting down the [[Left-wing]] and [[Right-wing]] revolutions, working with the [[right-wing]] [[Freikorps]] and the left-wing [[Trade unions]]s. He was Chancellor until he died on 28 February 1925 from Septic Shock.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kershaw|first=I|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|page=267|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|location=New York|year=1998|isbn=0393320359|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nV-N10gyoFwC&q=%22Friedrich+Ebert%22+appendectomy&pg=PA267}}</ref> He is praised for helping the Weimar Republic when it had only just been made, but people also say he was wrong for working with the right-wing, and that i