Silvio Gesell
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Johann Silvio Gesell was a German-Argentine economist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. He was the founder of Freiwirtschaft, an economic model for market socialism. In 1900, he founded the magazine
Gesell in 1895
The company headquarters, the "Casa Gesell", in Buenos Aires
Silvio Gesell's grave in the Oranienburg City Cemetery on 17 March 2023 (coordinates: 52°44′52″N 13°13′35″E / 52.7478°N 13.2265°E / 52.7478; 13.2265 (Grabstätte von Silvio Gesell))
Information board at the grave (March 17, 2023)
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
Silvio Gesell
…interest, economic crises, and unemployment. At the suggestion of Erich Müchsam and Gustav Landauer, Gesell served as the finance minister of the Bavarian Soviet Republic for eight days in 1919. After the republic's violent end, Gesell was detained for several months on a charge of treason but was acquitted by a Munich…
Eugen Leviné, head of the second and more radical government of the Bavarian Soviet Republic