Munich newspaper coup
The Munich newspaper coup was the failed attempt to make a print of the bourgeois press under the direction of the workers on December 6, 1918 and Interior Minister Erhard Auer to resign from the Council of Ministers of Kurt Eisner to necessary .
As part of a demonstration , the Munich book trade house M. Müller & Sohn was occupied by in Carré Schellingstraße / Barerstraße. Erich Mühsam explained to the workers present that they were now partners in the company. A poster was printed:
“Comrades! Follow our example and achieve the socialist goals. Long live the international, socialist world republic! The revolutionary internationalists of Bavaria ""
In the Munich Post , Erhard Auer reports: “On December 7, 1918 at 12.15 p.m. I was attacked by around 300 armed men in my apartment and forced to resign from the ministerial office. The guys even asked him to sign that he would go willingly. Dodging violence, I declared ... that I would resign from my position as Minister of the Interior. "Kurt Eisner did not accept the resignation.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz J. Bauer: Die Eisner government 1918/19 (= sources on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Series 1: From the constitutional monarchy to the parliamentary republic. Vol. 10). Droste, Düsseldorf 1987, p. 246.