Eduard Heinrich David

Eduard Heinrich David (born June 11, 1863, Ediger an der Mosel, Prussian Rhine Province [Germany]—died December 24, 1930, Berlin, Germany) was a leader of the revisionist wing of the German Social Democratic Party and a minister in the early years of the Weimar Republic (1919–33). As a young grammar school teacher, David founded (1893) the Socialist Mitteldeutsche Sonntagszeitung (“Mid-German Sunday News”); but his affiliation with the Social Democrats soon cost him his state employment. In...