EISNER, KURT

koortˈ īsˈnər, 1867–1919, German socialist. He studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm Univ. in Berlin and edited several leading socialist newspapers. In 1917 he joined the newly formed Independent Social Democratic party. Eisner was convicted (1918) of treason for inciting a strike among munitions workers. Released, he organized the revolution that overthrew the Bavarian monarchy (Nov. 7, 1918), and he became the first republican premier of Bavaria. He opposed Prussian domination in German affairs and advocated a more genuinely federal German state to give Bavaria a leading role. Seeking to pacify the Allied powers, Eisner published documents from the Bavarian archives reputing to prove German responsibility for World War I. An idealist with little political ability, he rapidly lost support and was assassinated (Feb. 21, 1919) on his way to present his resignation to the Bavarian parliament. Eisner's collected writings were published in 1919.

See study by A. Mitchell (1965).

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Gay Histories and Cultures
Book by George E. Haggerty, John Beynon, Douglas Eisner; Garland, 2000
Subjects: Gays--History, Gays--Social Life And Customs
...capable of embracing a mixture of vocal and instrumental forces. The first performance, in Alice Tully Hall, by Parker, Kurt Ollmann, William Sharp, and Sanford Sylvan on June 4, 1992, was billed as the AIDS Quilt Song-book-1992 , Parkers open...
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The International Handbook of Giftedness and Talent
Book by Kurt A. Heller, Franz J. Mu+F6nks, Robert J. Sternberg, Rena F. Subotnik; Pergamon, 2000
Subjects: Gifted Children--Education--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, Gifted Children--Education--Research--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
...Educational Psychologist, 33, 65-72. Sternberg, R. J. Caruso, D. ( 1985). Practical modes of knowing. In: E. Eisner (Ed.), L,earning the Wuv.s of Knowing (pp. 133-158). Chicago, lL: Chicago University Press. Stemberg, R...
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Unpublished Letters
Book by Kurt F. Leidecker, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Philosophical Library, 1959
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm--1844-1900--Correspondence, Philosophers--Germany--Correspondence
...than the familiar Brandes and Ree we should mention Raoul Richter, Paul Mongre pseudonym for Felix Hausdorff , Max Brahn, K. Eisner, Henri Lichtenberger, Daniel Halevy, Georg Simmel, Oskar Ludwig Levy, Julius Wilhelm Kaftan, Karl Joel, Moritz Kronenberg...
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The Jewish Ethic and the Spirit of Socialism
Book by Adam M. Weisberger; Peter Lang, 1997
Subjects: Germany--Ethnic Relations, Jewish Socialists--Germany--Biography, Jews--Germany--Politics And Government, Socialism And Judaism, Socialism--Germany
...Gesellschaft. Eisner, Freya 1969 "Kurt Eisner: Politik ist Erziehung," in...2, Apr. pp. 98-102. 1979 Kurt Eisner . Die Politik des libertaren Sozialismus...Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. Eisner, Kurt 1899 Eine Junkerrevolte . Berlin...
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Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders
Book by A. Thomas Lane; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Labor Leaders--Europe--Biography--Dictionaries
...assassinated by a right-wing terrorist on 21 February, 1919. See also F. Fechenbach , Der Revolutionar Kurt Eisner 1929 ; F. Eisner, Kurt Eisner. Die Politik des libertaren Sozialismus 1979 ; W. Benz and H. Graml, eds., Biographisches Lexikon...
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The Rise and Fall of the Jewish/Left Alliance: An Historical and Political Analysis
Journal article by Philip Mendes; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 45, 1999
Subjects: Israel--Politics and government, Jews--Political activity, Right and left (Political science)--Israel
...until the Nazi takeover. Jews including Hugo Haase, Kurt Eisner and Eugen Levine played particularly prominent roles...73) Other radicals such as the German revolutionaries Kurt Eisner, Erich Musham, Gustav Landauer, Ernst Toiler and Edward...
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Turnips and War Memorials: E.J. Gumbel's Critique of German Militarism, 1919-1932
Journal article by Rosanna M. Gatens; International Social Science Review, Vol. 83, 2008
Subjects: College faculty--Criticism and interpretation, College faculty--Works, College teachers--Criticism and interpretation, College teachers--Works, Germany--Military aspects, Germany--Political aspects, Gumbel, E.J.--Criticism and interpretation, Gumbel, E.J.--Works, Militarism--Criticism and interpretation, Statisticians--Criticism and interpretation, Statisticians--Works
...after the Thirty Years War. (25) As Kurt Tepper-Laski, a BNV founder, argued...members were murdered, including Kurt Eisner (February 1919), Gustav Landauer...Beginning until 1933), 100. (25) Kurt Tepper-Laski, quoted in Lehmann...
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Nationalism and the Left in Germany
Journal article by Stefan Berger; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1994
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...power fixation of many Social-Democrats. In 1918 the war was lost, and revolution had swept Imperial Germany away. Kurt Eisner, Eduard Bernstein and a minority of pacifist-minded Social-Democrats argued that only an open confrontation with...
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Heinrich Mann's Novels and Essays. the Artist as Political Educator
Journal article by Paul Bishop; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 33, 2003
Subjects: Heinrich Mann's Novels and Essays: The Artist as Political Educator (Book)
...II (p. 65). Chapter 3 documents Manns involvement with the short-lived Workers and Peasants Councils founded by Kurt Eisner in Munich in 1918 and with the Munich Political Council of Intellectual Workers. Realizing the need to adapt his artistic...
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Theory and the Social Revolution in Haiti
Journal article by David Fistein; Journal of Haitian Studies, Vol. 15, 2009
...the same time period. But the Bavarian "Bolshevik" break-away Republic in 1918 succumbed to the temperament of Kurt Eisner, the leader, who lost his patience repeatedly and attacked the other South German statesmen when attending a conference...
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Lessons of the Weimar Republic: The History of Weimar Germany Illustrates How the Social, Political, and Cultural Destruction Caused by Hyperinflation So Easily Leads to the Loss of Liberty
Magazine article by Michael E. Telzrow; The New American, Vol. 25, May 11, 2009
Subjects: German Republic, 1918-1933--Analysis, German Republic, 1918-1933--History, Inflation (Economics)--Analysis, Inflation (Economics)--Germany, Inflation (Economics)--History, Inflation (Economics)--United States, Inflation (Finance)--Analysis, Inflation (Finance)--Germany, Inflation (Finance)--History, Inflation (Finance)--United States, Money
...looked to appropriate the revolutionary movement. Even before the armistice was signed on November 11, SPD party leader Kurt Eisner and his followers seized control of Munich and declared it a Bavarian Republic. Just as Friedrich Ebert of the "moderate...
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New Life Members: The Sierra Club Welcomed the Following New Life Memebers in 2002
Magazine article; Sierra, Vol. 88, May-June 2003
Subjects: Sierra Club--Membership
...Anonymous 222 Christian Sally Aall Erin W. Abercrombie Kurt Abrahamson Wendy James Abrams Frank Adams S. McCafferty...Eiland John Pamela Eisele Stanley Eisenberg Carole S. Eisner Richard Eisner Sheila Elliott Carla Schlatter Ellis George Ellison...
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Season Preview 2006-07: The Season's Top 10
Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 23, October 2006
Subjects: Theater--Directories
...Mar 3. The Threepenny Opera, Brecht, Kurt Weill; dir: Julie Herber, Tad Janes...Malicsi, R.A. Shiomi; lyrics and music: Kurt Miyashiro; dir: Mary Beidler Gearen...Jeroen van den Berg; dir: John Clinton Eisner. Nov 2. TBA, Tanya Barfield. Nov 16...
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Sunday Filmmakers
Magazine article by Bruce Bennett; Humanities, Vol. 29, July 2008
Subjects: Motion pictures, Theaters & cinemas
...literally the case. Robert and Curt (ne Kurt) Siodmak were born in 1900 and 1902...Kammerspiel films, according to Lotte Eisner in her survey of German cinema, The Haunted...film historys biggest liar" by Lotte Eisner) insisted in an interview in Peter Bogdanovichs...
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John Muir Society: The Sierra Club and the Sierra Club Foundation Wish to Thank the Following Individuals for Their Support in 2001
Magazine article; Sierra, Vol. 87, May-June 2002
...Eisele Dvm Stanley Eisenberg Carole S. Eisner Ann Chris Ellingham Carla Ellis Charles...Allan J. Reich Pamela Reichelderfer Kurt Suzanne Reichle Mr. Mrs. Stewart Reid...Scholl Nancy J. Schott Albert Joel Schreck Kurt Schrim Arthur Norma Schroeder John Schroeder...
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Comcast Drops $54.1 Billion Disney Bid; Cites High Shares in Calling off Hostile Takeover
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 29, 2004
Subjects: Cable television broadcasting industry, Comcast Corp., Eisner, Michael D., Roberts, Brian L., Walt Disney Co.
...executive officer, Michael Eisner, with some breathing room in...movie studios and ABC network. Kurt Funderburg, an analyst at Harris...withdrawal buys some time for Mr. Eisner, who is fending off calls for...complete confidence" in Mr. Eisner, a decision that helped seal...
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The Flight from Hitler in the Years before the War
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 15, 2011
Subjects: Funder, Anna
...what might have been. In 1918, Bavaria was declared a free state and, even after the assassination of its leader, Kurt Eisner, in 1919, it survived for a few months more as a Soviet Republic until -- to cut a complicated story short -- it...
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Scientists vs. the Administration
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 30, 2004
Subjects: Union of Concerned Scientists
...Policymaking. Although they were never identified as such in the letter, four signatories - Thomas Eisner, Richard Garwin, Anne Kapuscinsky and Kurt Gottfried - are current members of the UCS Board. For instance, Mr. Gottfried, the chairman...
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Cops from Another World Face Reality of Earth Life
Newspaper article by Joseph Szadkowski; The Washington Times, April 28, 2001
...as an obese, emotional wreck. Havent Kurt Busiek and Warren Ellis done this to death...of character designs alone justifies an Eisner award. Mr. Has work brings these heroes...limited-edition action figures of himself. Kurt Busiek writes the piece with nice artwork...
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Morphing of Terrorist Image
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 29, 2003
...establishment. In our pop culture, look at the deification of Kurt Cobain, Sid Viscous and the lofty eminence thrust onto Eminem...that infects us today. Abe Novick is senior vice president for Eisner Communications in Baltimore.
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encyclopedia articles on: Eisner Kurt  - 2 results

 
 
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Eisner, Kurt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EISNER, KURT koort is n r, 1867 1919, German socialist...formed Independent Social Democratic party. Eisner was convicted (1918) of treason for inciting...Seeking to pacify the Allied powers, Eisner published documents from the Bavarian archives...
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Bavaria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Louis III , successor to the mad Otto I , was dethroned in Nov., 1918, by Kurt Eisner , who established a socialist republic. The assassination (Feb., 1919) of Eisner led to a Communist revolution (Apr., 1919), which was bloodily suppressed...


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