People's State of Bavaria Volksstaat Bayern | |||||||||||||
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| 1918–1919 | |||||||||||||
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 The location of the Free People's State of Bavaria (in red) shown with the rest of the Weimar Republic (in beige). | |||||||||||||
| Status | Unrecognized state | ||||||||||||
| Capital | Munich | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | German | ||||||||||||
| Government | Socialist republic | ||||||||||||
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• 8 November 1918 – 21 February 1919 | Kurt Eisner | ||||||||||||
• 1 March 1919 – 17 March 1919 | Martin Segitz (acting) | ||||||||||||
• 17 March 1919 – 6 April 1919 | Johannes Hoffmann | ||||||||||||
| Legislature | Landtag of Bavaria | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | World War I · Revolutions of 1917–1923 | ||||||||||||
• Established | 8 November 1918 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 6 April 1919 | ||||||||||||
| Currency | German Papiermark (ℳ) | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany (Bavaria) | ||||||||||||
The People's State of Bavaria (German: Volksstaat Bayern)[nb 1] was a republic in Bavaria from 1918 to 1919. The People's State of Bavaria was established on 8 November 1918 during the German Revolution, as an attempt at a socialist state to replace the Kingdom of Bavaria. The state was led by Kurt Eisner until his assassination in February 1919. Its government under Johannes Hoffmann went into exile in Bamberg when the rival Bavarian Soviet Republic was formed on 6 April 1919. After the Soviet Republic's end, the People's State of Bavaria developed into the Free State of Bavaria.
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