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Arco-Valley was tried for murder in January 1920. He was found guilty and sentenced to death, but his sentence was reduced to life imprisonment. The State Prosecutor said of him, "If the whole German youth were imbued with such a glowing enthusiasm we could face the future with confidence." He served
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in 1898, although for tactical reasons, German Social-Democracy, particularly in its later stages, rather cold-shouldered anything in the shape of republican propaganda as unnecessary and included in general Social-Democratic aims. Consequently, he fought actively for political democracy as well as
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in 1900, but in 1905 was called upon to resign by a majority of the editorial board, which favored more orthodox Marxists. After that, his activities were confined in the main to Bavaria, though he toured other parts of Germany. He was chief editor of the
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took power the Monument to the Revolution was destroyed: it was demolished on 22 June 1933, and the urn with Eisner's ashes was moved to the New Jewish Cemetery, where it is still buried. The monument in the Ostfriedhof was re-created after
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in Berlin during July and August 1914 that he thought proved that the war was caused by "a small horde of mad Prussian military" men as well as "allied" industrialists, capitalists, politicians, and princes. At the
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Kurt Eisner, der am 9. November 1918 die Bayerische Republik ausrief, nachmaliger Ministerpräsident des Volksstaates Bayern, wurde an dieser Stelle am 21. Februar 1919 ermordet
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soldiers and high school students sabotaged it, using weapons from the military arsenal. Among other things, 11 machine guns were used. The incident, dubbed the
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in November 1918, which led to him being described as "the symbol of the Bavarian revolution". He is used as an example of
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Eisner had a very large funeral with thousands of attendants coming to mourn his death. One guest who was there was
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shot him in the back on 21 February 1919. At the time, Eisner had been on his way to present his resignation to the
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his sentence at Landsberg Prison in cell 70, and in 1924 he was evicted from his cell to make way for
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In 1989, a monument was installed in the pavement at the site of Eisner's assassination. It reads,
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Holgar, Herwig (1987) "Clio Deceived: Patriotic self-censorship in Germany after the Great War".
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Obituary, Unsigned, Justice, 27 February 1919, p. 6; transcribed by Ted Crawford. Please see:
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Minister President of Bavaria from 1918–1919 and Leader of the People's Republic Of Bavaria
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Monument to Kurt Eisner on the sidewalk where he fell when he was assassinated in Munich
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After his release from prison, Eisner organized the revolution that overthrew the
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labor union tried to stage a play about Eisner at the bishopric theater in 1920,
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Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg – Bosls bayrische Biographie – Kurt Eisner
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Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]
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by the artist Konstantin Frick as a faithful copy of the original.
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Eisner was the author of various books and pamphlets, including:
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Der Anfang, der ein Ende war. Die Revolution in Bayern 1918/19
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on 14 May 1867, to Emanuel Eisner and Hedwig Levenstein, both
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of munitions workers. He spent nine months in Cell 70 of
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fleeing Munich and the establishment of the short-lived
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but was assassinated by far-right German nationalist
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Minister President
People's State of Bavaria
Otto Ritter von Dandl
Johannes Hoffmann
Berlin
Brandenburg
Prussia
Munich
Bavaria
German
Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany
Social Democratic Party of Germany
[kʊʁtˈʔaɪsnɐ]
journalist
Wittelsbach
Bavaria
charismatic authority
Max Weber
People's State of Bavaria
Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley
Munich
Berlin
Jewish
Galicia
philosophy
Marburg
Frankfurter Zeitung
Wilhelm II
SPD

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