minister, that no one who participated in the strike would be fired and no one punished. In the morning, the strikers gathered for a final rally on the Theresienwiese, the train moves into the city and dissolves at Karlsplatz. After the resignation of Georg von Vollmar Auer was elected as his successor. On 8 November 1918, the provisional National Council of Bavaria elected a revolutionary government of MSPD and USPD with Kurt Eisner as Prime Minister and Erhard Auer as Minister of the Interior. Auer, who also belonged to the Weimar National Assembly, like the majority of the Bavarian MSPD leadership, endeavored to close as soon as possible a coalition with the Bavarian People's Party and the Liberals, as was also done at the federal level with the Weimar coalition. In the state elections of 12 January 1919, the USPD suffered a crushing defeat and Eisner wanted to declare his resignation as Prime Minister at the inaugural session of the Diet on 21 February 1919 but was shot on the way to the parliament building by Count Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley. It then came to riots in the state parliament, in which Erhard Auer was shot by the left-wing extremist Alois Lindner and the Major Paul Ritter von Jahreiß (Speaker in the Bavarian Ministry of War ) was killed. The conservative MP Heinrich Osel also died of a gunshot wound, but the perpetrators remained unclear in this case. Weimar Republic and National Socialism After his recovery, he was operated on by Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Auer took over the chairmanship of the SPD parliamentary group. From 1919 to 1933 he was city councillor in Munich, from October 1922 to 1933 editor at the Munich Post . In the mid-1920s, Auer campaigned for a reformist orientation of the new SPD policy program (" Heidelberg Program ") (1925). He was one of the Social Democrats who tried to strongly oppose the rise of the fledging Nazis. On 17 March 1922, he spoke at one of Bavaria's Interior Minister Franz Xaver Schweyer convened meeting as the sole party chairman in the state parliament against expulsion of Adolf Hitler to Austria. In response to the Hitler coup in 1923, Auer prompted the formation of social democratic self-protection groups, the so-called Auer-Garden, which were later transferred to the " Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold ". After the "seizure of power" by the NSDAP Auer initially went underground and