USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Friedrich Ebert served as the first President of the Weimar Republic from 1919 to 1925. He advocated the development of parliamentary democracy, viewed himself as the president of all Germans, and was committed to a politics geared to social balance and compromise.

Detailed explanation-2: -By the votes of the three parties forming the coalition, Ebert was elected the first president of the republic.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the first German presidential election, held on 11 February 1919, five days after the Nationalversammlung (constituent assembly) convened in Weimar, Ebert was elected as provisional president of the German Republic.

Detailed explanation-4: -Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was a German general who gained renown during World War I and later as President of the Weimar Republic.

Detailed explanation-5: -In April 1925, after the death of Friedrich Ebert, Hindenburg was elected the republic’s second president, despite his professed monarchism. He adhered, if not to the spirit, then at least to the letter of the republican constitution.