Author: Hölz, Max [ Hoelz, Max (1889-1933)]
Title: Hölz' Anklagerede gegen die bürgerliche Gesellschaft : gehalten vor dem Moabiter Sondergericht am 22. Juni 1921 in Berlin ..,.
Description: Leipzig / Berlin, Frankes Verlag, [1921]. orig. wrappers. 22x14cm, 26 pages. Name pencilled on title. In fraktur.. Worn. Cover corner creased and chipped. Good. ¶ Full title reads: "Hölz' Anklagerede gegen die bürgerliche Gesellschaft : gehalten vor dem Moabiter Sondergericht am 22. Juni 1921 in Berlin : nach dem stenographischen Bericht / Mit einem Vorwort von Felix Halle". [ German communist Max Hoelz, known as the Red Robin Hood for his daring acts expropriating from the rich to distribute to workers and the unemployed"...."Max Hoelz was considered by the social democrats as a dangerous adventurer, by the official communists as an irresponsible and a traitor, by the communist left as an anarchist and by the anarchists as a Leninist." – Paco Ignacio Taibo II in Archangels...."In March 1920 after the right-wing Kapp Putsch, Hoelz returned to the Vogtland and organised workers from Falkenstein and Oelsnitz in a Red Guard. He became famous for his heroic organisation of very effective armed bands against the police, the army and the far-right paramilitary Freikorps...He raised money from employers under threat of reprisals. He liberated prisoners, destroyed deeds and police and legal archives, burnt the villas of the rich and more. He was equally popular because of his constant eluding of capture by the police. In April 1919, a sum of 30,000 marks was put on his head. He was not arrested until after the March Action..." - from libcom website].

Keywords: German Political History, Weimar Germany, Communism, Communist Party, Politics, , , ,