Proclaimed April 6th 1919 and disestablished May 3rd 1919. This short lived state had an interesting Foreign Affairs Deputy Dr. Franz Lipp. He had been admitted several times for psychiatric treatment and declared war on Switzerland because the Swiss Government refused to lend Bavaria sixty railway locomotives. Apart from declaring war in his short period in office, Lenin was cabled to be told that the ousted former Bavarian Premier Mr Hoffmann had taken the key to the ministry toilet with him.

Jenny: I was researching an article and was looking in material from the New York Times. On April 14th 1919 an article appeared from a reporter commenting on the situation affecting the recently declared Bavarian Soviet Republic. If you follow the links that I have included you can see that there was a "unique" way in which the Government conducted itself.One bizarre decision, I did not include was that the Government unilaterally decided to close all cafes in the country at 6PM. As you can imagine this went down very well with cafe owners and their clientele!