Ebert did his best to act in agreement with the old powers, and intended to save the monarchy.

Nevertheless Tucholsky did accuse Ebert and Noske of betrayal -– not of the monarchy but of the revolution.

The Weimar Republic under Friedrich Ebert violently suppressed workers ' uprisings with the help of Gustav Noske and Reichswehr General Groener, and tolerated the paramilitary Freikorps forming all across Germany.

On 6 February 1930, it was renamed Stresemannstraße after Gustav Stresemann ( 1878 – 1929 ), the first Chancellor to serve under President Ebert.

He wrote to his family, " I made music under the Kaiser, and under Ebert.

Similar to the numerous Freikorps, which upon the Revolution of 1918 – 1919 were temporarily backed by the Council of the People's Deputies under Chancellor Friedrich Ebert ( Ebert – Groener pact ), the paramilitary organization was meant to form an unofficial reserve force.

The party's stance, under the leadership of Ebert and other " moderates " like Philipp Scheidemann, in favour of the war with the aim of a compromise peace, eventually led to a split, with those radically opposed to the war leaving the S. P. D.

The uprising was brutally opposed by the new German government under Friedrich Ebert with the help of the remnants of the Imperial German Army and militias called the Freikorps ; by 13 January, the uprising had been extinguished.

This included staging massive street demonstrations intended to destabilize the Weimar government, led by the centrists of the SPD under Chancellor Friedrich Ebert.

The Weimar republic was established and placed the SPD in power, under the leadership of Friedrich Ebert.

After the SPD leadership under Friedrich Ebert had excluded the opponents of the war from party ranks, the Spartacists joined with so-called " Revisionists " like Eduard Bernstein and Centrists like Karl Kautsky to found the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany ( USPD ) under the leadership of Hugo Haase on 9 April 1917.

They could not have done Ebert a bigger favor since he had let them participate only under the pressure of revolutionary events.

Ebert had been under the impression that they would be donated to the Smithsonian.

Returning to Berlin, Erzberger agreed to serve under Ebert as Chairman of the Armistice Commission, a difficult and humiliating task.

* Mid 1930s working in a surrealist style, under the pseudonym " Max Ebert ".

That being said, Ebert would go on to include Joe Dirt as one of his most hated films of all time under the category of " alleged comedies " and going on to state, " What movies, including ' Joe Dirt ,' often do not understand is that the act of being buried in crap is not in and of itself funny.

Ebert had granted Cuno considerable latitude under Article 48 to deal with the inflation and matters related to the mark.

Upon the German defeat and the November Revolution of 1918, Hierl became head of a paramilitary Freikorps unit that took part in the January 1919 Spartacist uprising around Augsburg and enforced the rule of the Council of the People's Deputies under Friedrich Ebert.

Formerly the only piece known under the name of Merobaudes was a short poem ( 30 hexameters ) De Christo, attributed to him by one manuscript, to Claudian by another ; but Ebert is inclined to dispute the claim of Merobaudes to be considered either the author of the De Christo or a Christian.

Otto Lebrecht Eduard Meissner ( 13 March 1880, Bischwiller, Alsace – 27 May 1953, Munich ) was head of the Office of the President of Germany during the entire period of the Weimar Republic under Friedrich Ebert and Paul von Hindenburg and, finally, at the beginning of the Nazi era under Adolf Hitler.

In 1950, Meissner published a memoir covering his unusual bureaucrat's career in a book entitled State Secretary under Ebert, Hindenburg and Hitler.

Roger Ebert stated that " Streep and Keaton, in their different styles, find ways to make Lee and Bessie into much more than the expression of their problems.

Although the Weimar constitution ( which Ebert signed into law in August 1919 ) provided for the establishment of workers ' councils on different levels of society, they did not play a major part in the political life of the Weimar Republic.

Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic " Bond plot ", was different from other Bond films: " For one thing, there's more of a human element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo.

Critical response was mixed, with some critics panning it as formulaic, though some critics ( including Roger Ebert ) commended Kevin Smith for trying different things in his film career.

" Other reviews were more mixed: Gene Siskel gave the film a " marginal Thumbs Up " as he liked Jennifer Grey's acting and development of her character, while Roger Ebert gave it " Thumbs Down " due to its " idiot plot ", calling it a " tired and relentlessly predictable story of love between kids from different backgrounds.

When the television program Siskel and Ebert reviewed the film, Roger Ebert gave the film a " thumbs up " rating praising the different performances of Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss onscreen together as well as most of the film's humor.

Roger Ebert agreed, but praised Spade for taking on a different role than he is normally associated with, and added that Spade's performance was convincing, despite the film's other shortcomings.

On the show Ebert and Roeper, Roger Ebert said the film " was so bad in so many different ways, not only does it offend gays, it offends everyone else.

Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: " Up Close and Personal is so different from the facts of Savitch's life that if Didion and Dunne still have their first draft, they probably could sell it as a completely different movie.

Most critics stated that it was almost impossible to follow the plot, though some, notably Roger Ebert, praised precisely that quality of the film and offered an interesting hidden story possibility ( a covert deal between the U. S. and China involving oil being shipped through Kazakhstan and passed off as coming from a different source ).

" It is one of only three films Ebert ever walked out of (" two hours into its 170 minute length "), the other two being Tru Loved and Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Following the Januarstreik in January 1918, a strike demanding an end to the war and better food provisioning that was organized by revolutionaries affiliated with the USPD and officially supported by the party, the USPD quickly rose to about 120, 000 members ; despite harsh criticism of the SPD for becoming part of the government of the newly formed German republic during the Oktoberreform, the USPD reached a settlement with the SPD as the Novemberrevolution began, and even became part of the government in the form of the Rat der Volksbeauftragten (" council of people's deputies "), which was formed on November 10, 1918 and mutually led by Friedrich Ebert and Hugo Haase following the German Revolution.

Roger Ebert is among the film's admirers, praising not only Mamet's trademark verbal constructions (" Everybody needs money — that's why they call it money!

" Roger Ebert was less praising, noting that he " admired the movie and was happy to see it but can think of two other films about whites in Africa that do a better job of seeing their roles (" Nowhere in Africa " and " White Mischief ").

" Later, during Siskel and Ebert's annual " If We Picked the Winners " program, Gene Siskel gave away the surprise twist of the film while giving his review, which infuriated Ebert.

" In a later review, Roger Ebert solidified the status of the film, " If I were asked to name the single scene in all of romantic comedy that was sexiest and funniest at the same time, I would advise beginning at six seconds past the 20-minute mark in Preston Sturges's " The Lady Eve '.

Roger Ebert wrote, " The DJ who was hosting the radio station's free preview of Cool World leaped onto the stage and promised the audience: ' If you liked Roger Rabbit, you'll love Cool World!

Influential film critic Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review, but was measured in his praise :" If you are attentive to the style, if you think about what Wong is doing, Chungking Express works.

" Ebert rejected the accusation, and reaffirmed his opinion of the film, stating, " If he's going to persist in making bad movies, he's going to have to grow accustomed to reading bad reviews.

According to notes taken by Max von Baden, Ebert declared on 7 November: " If the Kaiser does not abdicate, the social revolution is unavoidable.

Ebert used two spoiler warnings in the article, saying " If you have not yet seen Million Dollar Baby and know nothing about the plot, read no further " and later said, " Now yet another spoiler warning, because I am going to become more explicit.

Roger Ebert gave it one star out of four and wrote that it was " not a film that could be understood ", and that " If I were to see it again and again, I might be able to extract an underlying logic from it, but the problem is, when a movie's not worth seeing twice, it had better get the job done the first time through ".

Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: " If I had been the agent for one of the stars, like Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Farnsworth or Kathryn Harrold, I think I would have protested to the front office that Landis was engaging in cinematic auto-eroticism and that my clients were getting lost in the middle of the family reunion.

" Ebert wrote of the film: " If you've seen Psycho a dozen times and can recite the shots in the shower scene by heart, Psycho II is just not going to do it for you.