Kurt Eisner
Gurganus, Albert Earle![Kurt Eisner](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/242/24210643/CHSBZCOP0324210643.jpg)
At the end of the First World War, German Jewish journalist, theater critic, and political activist Kurt Eisner (1867-1919), just released from prison, led a nonviolent revolution in Munich that deposed the monarchy and established the Bavarian Republic. Local head of the Independent Socialists, Eisner had been jailed for treason after organizing a munitions workers' strike to force an armistice. For a hundred days, as Germany spiraled into ci...