biography
pronunciation:
[aybert]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1871–1925)
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| biography:
| German statesman, the first president of the German Republic (1919–25), born in Heidelberg, SWC Germany. A saddler at Heidelberg, he became a Social Democrat journalist and a Reichstag member (1912). Chairman of his party (1913), he was a Socialist leader in the revolution of 1918. |
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