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 of the Socialist Unity Party
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
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	(1894-09-12)12 September 1894 Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, German Empire (now Germany)
Died	4 December 1979(1979-12-04) (aged 85) East Berlin, East Germany
Resting place	Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde, Berlin, Germany
Citizenship	East German
Political 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[note 1] 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

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.^[1]

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