# Weber delivers the Munich lecture Politik als Beruf

Date: 1919

## The fact

On 28 January 1919 [Max Weber](/people/max-weber) lectured in Munich on Politik als Beruf, defining the state, the ethic of responsibility versus conviction, and the vocation of the politician, weeks after revolution and before Versailles signatures. It is not the 1917 science lecture. Suffrage and parliamentary responsibility are the improving democratic reading.

## Context

Eisner’s Bavaria, a lost war, and student hunger for leaders framed the night. Weber had been speaking for a liberal republic and against council rule. The Bund again hosted. Sharing does not erase the speaker. Do not treat later textbook definitions of the state as a 1919 statute he signed.

Shared responsibility is part of Weber delivers the Munich lecture Politik als Beruf. Naming Max Weber does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1919-01-28 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

Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/weber-max-1919-politik-als-beruf holds the 1919 print. SEP at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/ independently treats the vocation lectures as paired lifetime speeches.

Official or archival record: Politik als Beruf (1919) — Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/weber-max-1919-politik-als-beruf; Internet Archive / Duncker & Humblot).

## Significance

[Democratic-resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience) path, modest-to-mid weight, medium confidence on later parliamentary effects. High confidence on the 28 January 1919 delivery.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Weber delivered Politik als Beruf on 28 January 1919. Not established: that the lecture uniquely caused the Weimar constitution. Contribution is recorded as He delivered the 28 January 1919 lecture on politics as vocation, ethic of responsibility, and the state as monopoly of legitimate force. The Bund hosted. The impact note is A public lecture on responsible political vocation and parliamentary maturity is a democratic-resilience path of modest weight, split from charisma’s risk. The dated heading stays Weber delivers the Munich lecture Politik als Beruf on 1919-01-28, 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. Politik als Beruf is not Wissenschaft als Beruf. Mixed effects of Weber delivers the Munich lecture Politik als Beruf are separate paths.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is democratic-resilience. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. 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

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://archive.org/details/weber-max-1919-politik-als-beruf
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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