People's Court of the Munich Hostages Trial, 1919
On April 30, 1919 ten members of the government forces were killed in the Luitpold Gymnasium by supporters of the Bavarian Soviet Republic. In September the killers were brought to the people's court of Munich and sentenced to prison terms or death. The picture shows the judges' committee of the trial (from left): clerk, lay judge Leonhard Beck, lay judge Gustav Fischer, District Court Councillor Heinz, chairman of the Higher Regional Court Aull, Circuit Judge Bruckmueller, lay judge Martin Biederer, lay judge Gebhard Christian, prosecutor Hoffmann, court usher.