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
The Free State of Bavaria was one of the constituent states of the federally organized Weimar Republic. The Free State was established in November 1918 and lasted until the Nazi regime absorbed all of
Bavarian Soviet Republic
…of 1918–1919. A group of communists and anarchists declared the Bavarian Soviet Republic on 6 April 1919, 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…
Soldiers in Munich after the proclamation of the republic
King Ludwig III. He was the first of Germany's monarchs to lose his throne during the German revolution.
Kurt Eisner, the driving force behind the first phase of the German revolution in Bavaria
Johannes Hoffmann, Bavaria's minister-president after Eisner's assassination