and totally committed to the most radical utopian ideals of international revolution... [and] also exhibited exceptional bravery." Leviné was arrested and shot, age 36, on June 5 (or 6), 1919, by firing squad in Stadelheim Prison. Lawyer von Pestalozza arranged a Jewish funeral for the Marxist revolutionary. Works Books by Eugen Leviné Ahasver, Rede vor Gericht, u. anderes (Wandering Jew, Speech in Court, and Others) (1919) Skizzen, Rede vor Gericht und Anderes (Sketches, Speech in Court, and Others) (1925) Stimmen der Völker zum Krieg (Voices of the Nations on War) (1925) Books by wife Rosa Meyer-Leviné Aus der Münchener Rätezeit (1925) Sovetskaia respublika v Miunkhene (1926) Leviné: Leben und Tod eines Revolutionärs (1972) Leviné: The Life of a Revolutionary (1973) Leviné, the Spartacist (1978) Im Inneren Kreis: Erinnerungen Einer Kommunistin in Deutschland, 1920-1933 (1979) Near-contemporary books on Leviné Eugen Leviné (1922) Evgeny Levine (1927) Broeder, ik kan de brief niet aannemen (undated) Influence Max Hirshberg remembered Leviné as "far superior" to Levien "in learning and spiritual purpose" but believed both had committed blindly to the "correctness of Russian methods." In 1948, American ex-Soviet agent and later anti-communist Whittaker Chambers cited Leviné as one of three men who inspired him to join the Communist Party USA during testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, quoted in his 1952 memoir: Then I said: "When I was a Communist, I had three heroes. One was a Russian. One was a Pole. One was a German Jew. "The German Jew was Eugen Levine. He was a Communist. During the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919, Levine was the organizer of the Workers and Soldiers Soviets. When the Bavarian Soviet Republic was crushed, Levine was captured and courtmartialed. The court-martial told him: 'You are under sentence of death.' Levine answered: 'We Communists are always under sentence of death.'"In 2017, Michael Löwy placed Leviné in a group of Jewish libertarians including Hans Köhn, Rudolph Kayser, and Erich Unger, as well as Toller and Manes Sperber. See also Paul Levi Max Levien Bavarian Soviet Republic People's State of Bavaria German Revolution of 1918–1919 Revolutions of 1917–1923 References External links Speech Images of Levine: A. Hoerle poster "Leviné" (undated) Half-tone photo of Leviné (undated) Portrait of Leviné (1929.06.10) Photo of Leviné ("erschossen") (1919) Half-tone photo of Leviné (1920.06) 1883 births 1919 deaths People from Wiesbaden Russian Jews Bavarian Soviet Republic Communist Party of Germany politicians Executed communists Executed German