Today, 106 years ago, on 11 February 1919 (Calendar 11 January 1919), Albert was elected the first president of the German Republic. Albert (1871-1925), the right-wing leader of the German Socialist Party, the Weimar Republic and the first president. In 1871 was born in Heidelberg a household of seamstresses. In 1891 he joined the German Social Democratic Party. In 1912 he was elected to the Empire Parliament. In November 1918, when he was Prime Minister of the Empire, the November Revolution broke out in Germany. On 9 November, Karl Liebknecht and the Spartak group led by Luxembourg fled the German Emperor William II in Berlin. Albert drove to seize power in the German Social Democratic Party and suppressed the workers' movement. On 5 January 1918, under the call of the German Communist Party, half a million