Zenzl Mühsam
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Zenzl Mühsam was a political activist who was involved, with her husband, Erich Mühsam, in the Munich Soviet of 1919.
Portrait of Mühsam from a plaque in Pankow
Erich Mühsam
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Erich Mühsam was a German antimilitarist anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic, for whi
Zenzl Mühsam
…Zenzl Mühsam (born Kreszentia Elfinger; 27 July 1884 – 10 March 1962) was a political activist who was involved, with her husband, Erich Mühsam, in the Munich Soviet ("workers' council") of 1919. Fifteen years later, after her husband had been murdered in the Oranienburg concentration camp near…
Mühsam in 1928
Erich Mühsam as a young man, c. 1894
Erich Mühsam (seated center) with other leaders of the Bavarian Soviet Republic in prison, 1920
Erich Mühsam, 1924