Heinrich Ströbel

Heinrich Ströbel (7 June 1869 – 1 September 1944) was a socialist German journalist, poet, publicist, SPD and later USPD politician who was the editor in chief of the newspaper Vorwärts from 1905 to 1907.

As early as 1900, on Rosa Luxemburg's initiative, Ströbel became editor of the central organ of the SPD and was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1908 to 1918.

In 1914, Ströbel was promoted to editor-in-chief of the Vorwärts and from the outset took a critical stance on the SPD leadership's truce policy during the First World War.

Previously he had contact with the German Peace Society (DFG) and wanted and joined the pacifist collection movement Bund Neues Vaterland.

After the end of the First World War, Ströbel took over the presidency of the Prussian revolutionary government together with the SPD member Paul Hirsch.