Eduard David

Eduard Heinrich Rudolph David was a German politician. He was an important figure in the history of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and of the German political labour movement. After the German Revolution of 191819 he was Minister of the Interior in the Cabinet Bauer from June 1919 to October 1919 and served as Minister without Portfolio in other cabinets, including the very first democratically elected government of the Weimar Republic. David was also briefly the first president of the Weimar National Assembly which drew up the Weimar Constitution and ratified the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

Eduard David was born onJune 1863 in EdigerMosel as the son of Johann Heinrich David, a Prussian civil servant, and his wife Wilhelmine Elisabeth . After completing a fouryear commercial apprenticeship , David studied at the university at Gieen where he was introduced to socialist ideals. He then became a teacher at a Gymnasium and in 1893 founded the Mitteldeutsche Sonntagszeitung, a newspaper. His support for the Social Democratic Party led to his dismissal from the civil service in 1894.

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