biography
| name: |
Scheidemann, Philipp
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pronunciation:
[shiyduhman]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1865–1939)
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| biography:
| Social Democratic politician, born in Kassel, C Germany. A journalist, he joined the Reichstag in 1903. He became minister of finance and colonies in the provisional government of 1918, and was the first chancellor of the republic in 1919. He was the subject of a failed assassination attempt in 1922. |
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