Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Ebert‘s politics of compensating during the Weimar Republic is seen as an important archetype in the S.P.D. Today, the S.P.D.-associated Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Germany's largest and oldest party-affiliated foundation, which, among other things, promotes students of outstanding intellectual ability and personality, is named after Ebert.
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