# Weber campaigns with the DDP in the January 1919 elections

Date: 1919

## The fact

In January 1919 [Max Weber](/people/max-weber) campaigned with the Deutsche Demokratische Partei in the [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) elections, a liberal-national list in a polarised field, without becoming a durable parliamentary leader. Academic fame was converted into platform heat.

## Context

USPD, SPD, DDP, Zentrum, DNVP split the public. Weber’s temperament fitted polemics better than committee work. Sharing the DDP list with Naumann does not erase his speeches. Do not treat later FDP as this January 1919.

Shared responsibility is part of Weber campaigns with the DDP in the January 1919 elections. Naming Max Weber does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1919-01-19 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

MWG at https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/max-weber-gesamtausgabe-mwg-alle-baende-9783161595219/ collects 1919 campaign letters and speeches. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Max-Weber-German-sociologist independently notes DDP involvement.

Official or archival record: Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe — Mohr Siebeck (https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/max-weber-gesamtausgabe-mwg-alle-baende-9783161595219/; Mohr Siebeck / MWG).

## Significance

Polarisation path of modest weight, medium confidence on vote effects. Liberal suffrage writings remain a neighbour improving row.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Weber campaigned with the DDP in January 1919. Not established: a unique seat he held through the assembly’s term. Contribution is recorded as He spoke for the German Democratic Party. Naumann’s liberals shared the ticket; he failed to become a lasting deputy. The impact note is A famous professor’s party campaign in a polarised founding election is a polarisation path even inside a liberal list. The dated heading stays Weber campaigns with the DDP in the January 1919 elections on 1919-01-19, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Printers, unnamed clerks, and later editors may appear in the same file without becoming this instrument. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. DDP campaign is not Politik als Beruf as a second copy. Mixed effects of Weber campaigns with the DDP in the January 1919 elections are separate paths.

The attached driver is [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Max Weber: https://factrail.ai/people/max-weber

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Max-Weber-German-sociologist
- https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/max-weber-gesamtausgabe-mwg-alle-baende-9783161595219/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/weber-ddp-1919