Kurt Eisner was a German politician, revolutionary, journalist, and theatre critic.
16 Facts About Kurt Eisner
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Kurt Eisner is used as an example of charismatic authority by Max Weber.
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Kurt Eisner was born in Berlin on 14 May 1867, to Emanuel Eisner and Hedwig Levenstein, both Jewish.
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Kurt Eisner studied philosophy, but then became a journalist in Marburg.
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Kurt Eisner was always an open republican as well as a Social-Democrat, joining the SPD 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.
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Kurt Eisner became editor of Vorwarts after the death of Wilhelm Liebknecht in 1900, but in 1905 was called upon to resign by a majority of the editorial board, which favored more orthodox Marxists.
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Kurt Eisner was chief editor of the Frankische Tagespost in Nuremberg from 1907 to 1910, and afterward became a freelance journalist in Munich.
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Kurt Eisner joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1917, at the height of World War I, and was convicted of treason in 1918 for his role in inciting a strike of munitions workers.
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Kurt Eisner declared Bavaria to be a free state and republic, the People's State of Bavaria, on 8 November 1918, becoming the first republican premier of Bavaria.
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Kurt Eisner was assassinated in Munich when German nationalist Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley shot him in the back on 21 February 1919.
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At the time, Kurt Eisner had been on his way to present his resignation to the Bavarian parliament.
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Kurt Eisner's assassination resulted in the elected government of the People's State of Bavaria fleeing Munich and the establishment of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament.
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Kurt Eisner had a very large funeral with 1000's upon 1000's of people coming to mourn him.
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The urn containing Kurt Eisner's ashes was walled into its pedestal.
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Shortly after the National Socialists took power the Monument to the Revolution was destroyed: it was demolished on 22 June 1933, and the urn with Kurt Eisner's ashes was moved to the New Jewish Cemetery, where it is still buried.
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Kurt Eisner was the author of various books and pamphlets, including:.