Bavarian Soviet Republic
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The Bavarian Soviet Republic, also known as Bavarian Council Republic or the Munich Soviet Republic, was a short-lived unrecognised socialist state in Bavaria during the German revolution of 1918–1919
Eugen Leviné, head of the second and more radical government of the Bavarian Soviet Republic
Ernst Toller
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Ernst Toller was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician, and revolutionary known for his Expressionist plays. He served for six days in 1919 as president of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet
Bavarian Soviet Republic
…forcing the government of the existing Free State of Bavaria to flee to Bamberg in northern Bavaria. The members of the new government, led by playwright Ernst Toller, had no political or administrative experience, and after just six days in power they were ousted in a putsch organized by the Communist Party of Germany…
Ernst Toller in 1923
Ernst Toller (center) and Max Weber (foreground, bearded) in May 1917 at the Lauensteiner Tagung
Ernst Toller during his imprisonment in the Niederschönenfeld fortress (early 1920s)
Karlheinz Martin's production of Transformation in Berlin with Fritz Kortner as the war returnee, 30 September 1919