Marcuse served on a Berlin Soldiers’ Council in November 1918

Evidence

In November of the same year, just after starting his studies, he was voted on to the Soldiers’ Council of Reinickendorf in Berlin. He was an admirer of the type of socialist policies most strikingly represented by Kurt Eisner, Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of Bavaria. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 388

Marcuse, who had been in military service since the beginning of 1918 as an airship reservist, was a non-active member of the SPD, a party his parents looked down on as a party for the workers. In November of the same year, just after starting his studies, he was voted on to the Soldiers’ Council of Reinickendorf in Berlin. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 388

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• XREF: Concrete biographical data useful for a reference-level institutional history of the Frankfurt School’s founders.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 388