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
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
The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution, brought down the German Empire at the end of World War I and set the stage for the establishment of the Weimar Republic. The
Ernst Toller
…Posen, Germany Died 22 May 1939 (aged 45) New York City, US Military career Branch Imperial German Army Service years 1914- 1915 Conflicts World War I German revolution Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician, and revolutionary known for his Expressionist plays…
Proclamation of the republic by Philipp Scheidemann at the Reichstag building in Berlin, 9 November 1918
Erich Ludendorff in 1918. His calculated shifting of responsibility for the war's loss from the army to the civilian government gave rise to the stab-in-the-back myth.
Kiel mutiny: the soldiers' council of the battleship Prinzregent Luitpold. The sign reads in part "Long live the socialist republic."
Proclamation of the Bremen Soviet Republic outside the city hall on 15 November 1918