EISNER

Kurt, Bavarian revolutionary leader, born in 1867 at Berlin, of a Jewish family. He studied at the University of Marburg, and early acquired a vast erudition. Entering journalism, he contributed to the Frankfurter Zeitung, where he published an article attacking the Kaiser. For this he was condemned to nine months’ imprisonment. He then wrote for the Socialist pre and eventually became editor-in-chief of the Vorwarts. In 1907 he published a work entitled The Fall of the Empire which attracted much attention, and in 1910 he attacked Pru ian ascendancy in the Munich Post. Eisner took an active part in the Revolution of 1918, and was appointed Prime Minister of Bavaria. A revolutionary and a Socialist, he was, however, opposed to Bolshevism, which he did not hesitate to criticize violently. But his policy of separation, his aim of liberating the South German E (2/5) e