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Philipp Scheidemann proclaims the Republic from the west balcony of the Reichstag in Berlin on 8 November 1918. A great moment in the democratic history of Germany. Berlin, Germany Philipp Heinrich Scheidemann (26 July 1865, Kassel - 29 November 1939, Copenhagen) was a German journalist and member of the German Social Democratic Party. He became famous when he proclaimed the republic from the west balcony of the Reichstag on 9 November 1918 after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the monarchy. It was the first democratic system in Germany and went down in history as the Weimar Republic. Like Friedrich Ebert, Philipp Scheidemann rejected both the extreme left and the right. He received many death threats. In 1922, right-wing extremists carried out an assassination attempt on him, which he narrowly escaped. Since then, he always carried a gun with him when he went for walks. Shortly after the National Socialists seized power, he had to flee. Initially to Austria, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Fra

Date

Feb 14, 1918

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Photo12/ImageBROKER/Heinz Krimmer

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