Ancestors -- Parental home and youth -- Student life and military service -- Initial success -- Domestic life and personal development -- Marriage -- The young teacher and politician, Fall 1893 to 1897 -- Breakdown -- The new phase -- The new phase of Weber's production -- Expansion -- Activity in the world and controversies -- The good life -- Travel pictures -- The mother -- Service -- The prerevolutionary politician -- Interlude -- The postrevolutionary politician -- The teacher and thinker -- The final chapter -- Genealogy of Marianne and Max Weber -- Genealogy of Max Weber's life.