The War of the Nations_WW1_081

Statesmen Shaping Affairs in Revolutionary Germany.

DR. W.S. SOLF

succeeded von Hintze as Imperial Foreign Secretary and co-operated with Ebert after the Emperor’s abdication.

KURT EISNER,

former newspaper editor, became first President of the Bavarian Provisional Republic, November, 1918.

FRIEDRICH W. EBERT,

former Socialist leader in the Reichstag, became first Chancellor of the Revolutionary Government.

MATHIAS ERZBERGER,

leader of the Centrist Party and one of the envoys to the armistice conference.

VICE CHANCELLOR VON PAYER,

former assistant of von Hertling, tendered his resignation Sept. 29, 1918.

CONSTANTINE FEHRENBACH,

member of the Centrist group and President of the Reichstag under the monarchy.

ADOLF GROEBER,

member of the Socialist Party in the Reichstag and Secretary of State without portfolio.

PHILIP SCHEIDEMANN,

the most prominent of the Majority Socialists, who announced the abdication of the Emperor.

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The war of the nations: portfolio in rotogravure etchings: compiled from the Mid-week pictorial. New York: New York Times, Co, 1919. Book.

Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/19013740/. (Accessed November 08, 2016.)

Images from "The War of the Nations : Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings : Compiled from the Mid-Week Pictorial" (New York : New York Times, Co., 1919)

Notes: Selected from "The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings," published by the New York Times shortly after the 1919 armistice. This portfolio compiled selected images from their "Mid-Week Pictorial" newspaper supplements of 1914-19. 528 p. : chiefly ill. ; 42 cm.; hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037

Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 --Pictorial works.

New York--New York

Format: Rotogravures --1910-1920.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction

Repository: Library of Congress, Serials and Government Publications Division, Washington, D.C. 20540

Part Of: Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 (DLC) sgpwar 19191231

General information about the Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 digital collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037

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