[1] Ebert's career in electoral politics began in 1927 when he was elected to the Brandenburg an der Havel City Council.

[7] On 21 February 1933, three weeks after the appontment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, Ebert published an open letter to Paul von Hindenburg.

In response to Hitler's claim that fourteen years of Marxism had ruined Germany, Ebert's son recalls the letter that Hindenburg wrote to his father on December 8, 1918, in which he addressed Ebert as a loyal German man with whom he had allied himself to save the people from impending collapse.

Finally, Friedrich Ebert asks why nothing was being done to save his father's honor and why his deceased colleagues, Stresemann and Hermann Müller, had also remained defenseless, before whose coffins Hindenburg had bowed his aged head in reverence.

"In July 1933, Ebert was arrested for illegal political activity and detained for eight months in various concentration camps, including Oranienburg and Börgermoor.

[6] After the demise of the Third Reich, Ebert served as editor-in-chief of Der Märker and was elected chairman of the SPD in the Prussian province of Brandenburg.

The few recalcitrant members of the SPD half were pushed out soon after the merger, leaving the SED as a renamed and enlarged KPD.

During this time he devoted himself to rebuilding the destroyed city, campaigning for the restoration of the Brandenburg Gate, the Rotes Rathaus, the Zeughaus, and the Berlin State Opera.

Its cloth covered the bodies of those who gave their lives for Germany's unity and freedom in the fight against the feudal, despotic monarchy of Prussia.

After his resignation as mayor, the magistrate of East Berlin awarded him honorary citizenship, which was declared null and void in 1992.