A hundred years ago a revolution in Bavaria ended the monarchy. Some revolutionaries tried to establish a socialist rebel audience. In Würzburg, councillorship was particularly noticeable. At the beginning of April 1919, the Würzburg residence, at the time as it is now the headquarters of the State Archives, was the venue of the twelve-member Revolutionary Action Committee (RAA) and thus the centre of the revolutionary event. This three-day domination in the residence from 7 to 9 April 1919 is the focus of the exhibition on time.

The exhibition will include the logbook of the Action Committee delivered in an act of the Prosecutor's Office, as well as a variety of posters and leaflets. With posters and leaflets, the revolutionaries tried to control the mood in the city and to inform the population about the events. In view of contradictory instructions of the Munich councils and the Bamberger
Exile government was often insulted outside the larger cities, showing files from the under-French state council offices.

After three days, the Würzburger Räterepublik was militaryly terminated by an association of soldiers, students and citizens. The main players of the Würzburger Räterepublik were sentenced to the Landgericht Würzburg (Local Court). From now on, communists and Spartakists were considered the main drivers of young democracy. In the NS period, many followers of the sub-French epublics and their family members were monitored and persecuted, as the files of the Gestapostelle Würzburg document the members of the RAA chair Georg Friedrich Hornung.

The exhibition was prepared by the State Archive Würzburg together with the City Archive Würzburg and was already on display in the City Archive in November 2018. It is now shown in the state archive in the Würzburg residence – extended by original documents from the collections of the state archive Würzburg.

The exhibition is from 9 April to 7 June 2019 the Foyer des Staatsarchiv Würzburg, Residenzplatz
2 (residence, north wing), 97070 Würzburg (closed on all holidays).

The entrance is free.

Opening hours: Mo–Mi 8.00–16.00, Do 8.00–20.00, Fr 8.00–13.30.
Guided tours for groupn can be booked free of charge at Tel. 0931/355 29-0;
Email: poststelle@stawu.bayern.de

Posted on: 08.04.2019