Criminal Prosecution of Protagonists of the Munich Soviet Republics

The suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic by Freikorps and government troops at the end of April 1919, was marked by considerable brutality. While the acts of violence perpetrated by the "white troops" were hardly punished during the following period, the authorities took tough action against prominent representatives of the Soviet Republic.

In this context, the public prosecutor's office responsible in Munich I prepared a dossier on the "ringleaders" at the time of the Soviet government in Munich. About these, one can find in each case on two pages information in words and immages as well as a summary of the results of the search. In the case of Gustav Landauer (1870-1919) or Eugen Leviné (1883-1919), for example, they were limited to the statement of their summary executions on 2 May and 3 June 1919 respectively. Other leading protagonists of the Soviet Republic, such as Max Levien (1885-1937) or Tobias Akselrod (1887-1938), at first managed to flee Munich after the end of the Soviet Republic. In the case of their arrests, they were sentenced to long prison terms of up to 15 years.

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