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Born in Karlsruhe in 1870, Landauer was a philosopher, literary critic, Shakespeare scholar, and anarchist-socialist writer and politician. In November 1918, he became a member of the central council of the revolutionary government of Kurt Eisner in Munich. After Eisner's assassination, Landauer served briefly as Minister of Public Enlightenment in the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic. He was murdered while imprisoned on May 2, 1919 during the suppression of the revolutionary government.

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Portrait of Gustav Landauer dedicated to Fritz Mauthner, Leo Baeck Institute, F 5390.