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Friedrich Wehmer
Friedrich Wehmer (born Plate 25 December 1885: died Schwerin 7 February 1964) was a regional politician in Germany during the Weimar period and a national politician in the German Democratic Republic after the war. Life Early years Friedrich Wehmer was born during the closing years of the Bismarck era, near Schwerin, in the coastal region of central northern Germany. His father worked in forestry and in brick making. Wehmer was schooled locally between 1892 and 1900, and then trained for farm work till 1903. From then on he was employed intermittently by the Buchholz Forestry Office till 1941. In parallel to that, between 1912 and 1955 he worked a small holding on his own account as a tenant farmer. Military service and politics From 1905 till 1907 he undertook his military service, and was then called up in 1914 when the war began, serving in the army till 1918. After the war he began to take an interest in politics. In the revolutionary year of 1918 he joined a wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plate, Germany
Plate () is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. File:Kirche Peckatel.jpg, Church File:Kirche Consrade.jpg, Church File:Kirche Plate.jpg, Church File:Plate Störkanal.jpg, Stör-channel File:Plate Bahnhof.jpg, Train station References See also *List of municipalities in Germany Below is a list of Municipalities of Germany, municipalities in Germany with over 20,000 inhabitants in the year 2000. The list is sorted by population and gives the states of Germany, state of every municipality. In cases where the municipality ... * Towns in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Ludwigslust-Parchim Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin {{LudwigslustParchim-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Workers' And Soldiers' Councils 1918–1919
The German workers' and soldiers' councils of 1918–1919 (german: Arbeiter- und Soldatenräte) were short-lived Workers' council, revolutionary bodies that spread the German Revolution of 1918–1919, German Revolution to cities across the German Empire during the final days of World War I. Meeting little to no resistance, they formed quickly, took over city governments and key buildings, caused most of the locally stationed military to flee and brought about the abdications of all of Germany's List of German monarchs in 1918, ruling monarchs, including Emperor Wilhelm II, when they reached Berlin on 9 November 1918. In spite of being patterned after the soviet (council), soviets of the Russian Revolution, few of the German workers' and soldiers' councils had any interest in establishing a system of council communism. Most members wanted an end to the war and to German militarism, and the establishment of a parliamentary republic dominated by the moderate Social Democratic Party o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
