Erich Mühsam Autographs Collection 1913-1921

The collection contains handwritten and signed letters from Erich Mühsam, as well as a handwritten and signed poem. Included is a thank you postcard from Mühsam to Kurt Sprengel, an associate of Alfred Richard Meyer; and three letters from Mühsam to a Munich photographer regarding pictures the photographer took.Erich Mühsam was born in Berlin on April 6, 1878. While his brother Hans became a physician and his sister Charlotte married Leo Landau, a lawyer, Erich chose a different path and became an anarchist author, poet, and publisher. He was imprisoned from 1917-1918 for refusing military service, and from 1919-1924 for his role in the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic. Mühsam published many anarchist books, plays, and periodicals. He was also successful as a writer and performer in cabarets. An early critic of the Nazi regime, in 1934 he was arrested and sent to the Oranienburg concentration camp, where he was murdered on July 10, 1934.The original German-language inventory is available in the folder