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The Bavarian Soviet Republic, or Munich Soviet Republic People's State of Bavaria as well as sought to imposing a socialist soviet republic in Bavaria. It was overthrown less than a month later by elements of a German Army together with the paramilitary . Several individuals involved in its overthrow later joined the Nazi Party during its subsequent rise to power.
Initially, the Bavarian Soviet Republic was ruled by USPD members such(a) as Ernst Toller, and anarchists like writer Gustav Landauer, merchant Silvio Gesell, and playwright Erich Mühsam. Toller, who was also a playwright, referred the revolution as the "Bavarian Revolution of Love". Among the café society of Schwabing, the new government became asked as "the regime of the coffeehouse anarchists."
Toller's government members were not always well-chosen. For instance, the Foreign Affairs Deputy Dr. psychiatric hospitals – declared war on Württemberg and Switzerland over the Swiss refusal to lend 60 locomotives to the Republic. He also claimed to be alive acquainted with Pope Benedict XV and informed Vladimir Lenin and the Pope by cable that the ousted former Minister-President Hoffmann had fled to Bamberg and taken the key to the ministry toilet with him.
Other Toller appointments included: as commissar for military affairs, a former waiter; a burglar with a idea for moral turpitude as police president of Munich; as commissar for transportation a part-time railroad track maintenance worker; and – in Catholic Bavaria, where nuns ran the schools – a Jew as minister for education. Toller's minister for public housing published a decree saying that no multinational could thereafter contain more than three rooms and that the well room must always be above the kitchen and bedroom.
The new government reformed the arts and opened Munich University to everyone except those who wished to study history, which was deemed "hostile to civilization." One minister declared that capitalism would be brought down by making money free.