Eduard David

Eduard David
Minister of the Interior
In office 21 June 1919 – 3/4 October 1919
Chancellor	Gustav Bauer
Preceded by	Hugo Preuss
Succeeded by	Erich Koch-Weser
President of the Weimar National Assembly
In office 7 February 1919 – 13 February 1919
President	Friedrich Ebert
Chancellor	Philipp Scheidemann
Preceded by	Constantin Fehrenbach (as President of the Reichstag)
Succeeded by	Constantin Fehrenbach
Member of the Reichstag
In office 1903–1918
Constituency	Hessen 9
Personal details
Born	(1863-06-11)11 June 1863 Ediger-Eller
Died	24 December 1930(1930-12-24) (aged 67) Berlin
Nationality	German
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Germany

Eduard Heinrich Rudolph David (11 June 1863 – 24 December 1930) was a German politician. He was an important figure in the history of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and of the German political labour movement. After the German Revolution of 1918–19 he was a Minister without portfolio in the government of Philipp Scheidemann, before becoming Minister of the Interior in June 1919 in the succeeding government headed by Gustav Bauer. David remained in that position until October of that year.

David was also briefly the first president of the Weimar National Assembly which drew up the Weimar Constitution and ratified the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.