Gustav Landauer

German anarchist and revolutionary (1870–1919) Gustav LandauerLandauer in the 1910sBorn(1870-04-07)7 April 1870Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden, German ConfederationDied2 May 1919(1919-05-02) (aged 49)Munich, Bavarian Soviet RepublicCause of deathMurderedEducationHeidelberg UniversityUniversity of BerlinUniversity of StrasbourgKnown forLeading theorist of anarchism in GermanyCommissioner for Enlightenment and Public Instruction in the Bavarian Soviet Republic (1919)Notable workSkepsis und Mystik (1903)Die Revolution (1907)Aufruf zum Sozialismus (1911)MovementAnarchismLibertarian socialismAnarchist nationalismSpouse Hedwig Lachmann ​ ​(m. 1903; died 1918)​ Part of a series onAnarchism Definition Glossary Outline Schools of thought Pluralist Anarchism without adjectives Social outlook Individualist Egoist Philosophical Social Economic theories Collectivist Communist Market Mutualist Social causes Black Feminist Green Primitivist Total liberation Queer Religious Buddhist Christian Jewish Muslim Taoist Organizational strategies Insurrectionary Platformist Syndicalist Synthesis Theory Anarchy Anarchist criminology Anationalism Anti-authoritarianism Anti-capitalism Anti-imperialis