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The presidential election (''Reichspräsidentenwahl'') of 1919 was the first election to the office of President of the Reich (''Reichspräsident''), Germany's head of state during the 1919-1933 Weimar Republic. The constitution that stipulated a direct popular vote was not completed before 11 August 1919. Because a head of state was needed immediately the 1919 presidential election was held indirectly, by the National Assembly, on 11 February 1919. The winner was SPD chairman Friedrich Ebert, who beat former (Imperial) Secretary of the Interior Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner in the first round of voting by 277 to 49 votes. Ebert was supported by the SPD, the German Centre Party and the German Democratic Party (DDP), the parties of the "Weimar Coalition", which held more than 77 per cent of the seats in the National Assembly. He became president of Germany. The complete results were as follows: | valign="bottom" | 0.3 % 1 vote | valign="bottom" | 0.3 % 1 vote | valign="bottom" | 13.5 % 51 votes | valign="bottom" | 44 votes |- | style="border-top:#000000 solid 0.2em" | Friedrich Ebert | style="border-top:#000000 solid 0.2em" | Arthur Graf von Posadowsky | style="border-top:#000000 solid 0.2em" | Philipp Scheidemann | style="border-top:#000000 solid 0.2em" | Matthias Erzberger | style="border-top:#000000 solid 0.2em" | invalid | style="border-top:#000000 solid 0.2em" | not voted |} ==See also== *History of Germany 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「German presidential election, 1919」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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