Friedrich Ebert Jr.

Friedrich Ebert Jr.
Friedrich Ebert Jr.
	Ebert in 1961
Chairman of the State Council
	Acting; 1 August 1973 – 3 October 1973
Preceded by	Walter Ulbricht
Succeeded by	Willi Stoph
Deputy President of the Volkskammer
	In office; June 1971 – 4 December 1979
President	Gerald Götting; Horst Sindermann;
Preceded by	Hermann Matern
Succeeded by	Gerald Götting
Secretary for State and Legal Affairs of the Central Committee Secretariat
	In office; 19 June 1971 – 4 December 1979
First Secretary	Walter Ulbricht; Erich Honecker;
Preceded by	Gerhard Grüneberg
Succeeded by	Paul Verner (1980)
Lord Mayor of East Berlin
	In office; 30 November 1948 – 5 July 1967
Deputy	Arnold Gohr; Alfred Neumann; Waldemar Schmidt; Johanna Blecha; Herbert Fechner;
Preceded by	Louise Schroeder (acting)
Succeeded by	Herbert Fechner
First Secretary of the; Socialist Unity Party in Brandenburg
	In office; 21 April 1946 – 4 December 1948 Serving with Willy Sägebrecht
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Paul Bismark
Preceded by
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the Volkskammer
	In office; 18 March 1948 – 4 December 1979
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Günther Skrzypek (1980)
Member of the Reichstag ; for Potsdam I
	In office; 13 June 1928 – 22 June 1933
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	12 September 1894; Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, German Empire (now Germany)
Died	4 December 1979 (aged 85); East Berlin, East Germany
Resting place	Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde, Berlin, Germany
Citizenship	East German
Party	SPD (1913–1946); SED (1946–1979)
Spouse	Johanna Elisabeth Vollmann (m. 1920; died 1938)
Children	Friedrich III; Georg;
Parents	Friedrich Ebert (father); Louise Ebert (mother);
Occupation	Politician; Printer; Journalist;
Military service
Allegiance	German Empire; Nazi Germany
Branch/service	Imperial German Army; Wehrmacht
Years of service	1914–1918; 1939–1940
Battles/wars	World War I; World War II;
	Central institution membership 1949–1979: Full member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1946–1979: Full member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1971–1979: Deputy Chairman,; State Council ; 1960–1979: Member, State Council ; 1949–1950: Member,; Provisional Chamber of States ; 1946–1950: Member,; Landtag of Brandenburg ; 1933: Member,; Prussian State Council ; 1927–1933: Member,; Brandenburg an der Havel City Council ;

Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox officeholder with deprecated parameter "serviceyears". Replace with "service_years".

Friedrich "Fritz" Ebert Jr. (12 September 1894 – 4 December 1979) was a German socialist and later communist politician, the son of Germany's first president Friedrich Ebert. He was originally a Social Democrat like his father before him, but is best known for his role in the foundation of East Germany's ruling party, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, in which he served in various positions.