Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

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The Friedrich Ebert Foundation is a German research foundation associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Much of it's work is concerned with policy research, however it is also active internationally as a lobby group, promoting, amongst other things, trade unions, democracy movements and international co-operation between Social Democrat interest groups in Europe and North America.

History

The foundation was formed in 1925 as the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (English - Friedrich Ebert Foundation) by Friedrich Ebert, an SPD politician who was the first President of the Weimar Republic of Germany (

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