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Gustav Landauer

1870–1919 · 20th century

Gustav Landauer was a German anarchist philosopher and writer who argued for a socialism built on voluntary communities. In April 1919 he became commissioner for education in the first Bavarian Soviet Republic. When government troops and Freikorps took Munich, he was arrested and beaten to death by soldiers in Stadelheim prison on 2 May 1919.

Gustav Landauer
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Bavarian Soviet Republic

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