Characteristics of Bavarian Government during Carl Theodore's persecution of Weishaupt's Bavarian Illuminati

Weishaupt's mentality to a significant extent was something like: "why should we do as the church says, why should we abstain from what the church calls sin by abstaining from crime, when the country we live in is ruled by a tyrannical bully the Bavarian king, who holds power simply due to generation after generation of tyranny and bullying? Who can say, that we should be good non-criminal non-sinning citizens, enslaved by this bully? We have at least as much right to secretly and criminally war against this bully the Bavarian king, as he does to bully us. We have as much right to throw off his authority through secret crime, as his troops do to subjugate foreign countries and us. His troops think they are law-abiding, sinless and more moral than us when they force us to obey the king and when they invade other nations and force them into subjection; actually, our secret criminal war against the king's authority, which we intend to replace with our authority, is at least as ethical as the conduct of the king and his troops".

So a question becomes, what kind of government was the Bavarian government which Weishaupt and his club secretly rebelled against, before, during and after the time of Weishaupt? What processes decided who would be in power? How much power did it share with the people? How good a job did it do with regards to governing the people?

Prior to, during, and after Weishaupt's clash with Theodore in Bavaria, phenomena such as riots, leaders removed from power on grounds of insanity, and assassins lightly punished for murders of political leaders, played important roles with regards to who ended up in power in Bavaria. Wikipedia states without explanation that the time period from 1651 to the rule of Carl/Karl/Charles Theodore, was in Bavaria, an age of "absolutism" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bavaria).

Unfortunately so far my attempt to shine light on this subject has made little headway per hour of time expended. Historians annoy me by the way they include all kinds of unnecessary words and facts, while at the same time they ignore important words and facts.

Still here are my notes re this question so far. The following text re the Bavarian history, is unless noted otherwise, taken from Wikipedia and other sources, with me having done the hard work of boiling down the verbosity, inattention to important matters, and excess of attention to unimportant details, that I have encountered, by adding my words in parentheses to their text, replacing their text with '...', adding boldface and color to the text, mixing various sources together in logical ways, and adding and deleting paragraph separation spaces. The sources of the text are linked to below the notes that follow.

My notes on History of Bavaria before, during and after Illuminati leader Weishaupt's clash with Bavarian leader Theodore

(my words:) Bavaria, is a state of Germany, 27k sq miles in area (same area as a box 164 miles by 164 miles); its population is 13 million; it is located in the southeast corner of Germany; it comprises 20% of Germany's land area, and 16% of Germany's population (end my words);

The German practice of electing monarchs began when ancient Germanic tribes formed ad hoc coalitions and elected the leaders thereof. Elections were irregularly held by the Franks, whose successor states include France and Germany...While all free men originally exercised the right to vote in such elections, suffrage eventually came to be limited to the leading men of the realm...A letter of Pope Urban IV (1195-1264) suggests that by "immemorial custom", seven princes had the right to elect the King and future Emperor. These were: Three ecclesiastic -- the Archbishop of Mainz, the Archbishop of Trier, and the Archbishop of Cologne; Four secular --the King of Bohemia; the Margrave of Brandenburg; the Count Palatine of the Rhine; the Duke of Saxony (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince-elector)

Frederick I Barbarossa (1122 – 10 June 1190) was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor)

In 1180...Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor gave his territory (of Bavaria) to Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach. Bavaria remained in the possession of various branches of the family until the First World War (Wittelsbach dynasty, 1180–1918) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rulers_of_Bavaria)

Duke Otto I (Otto I of Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria) was a son of Otto IV, Count of Wittelsbach...As one of the best knights in the suite of Frederick I who had prevented a defeat of the Emperor near Verona in 1155, Otto was finally rewarded with the duchy of Bavaria in 1180 after the fall of Henry the Lion. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_I_of_Wittelsbach,_Duke_of_Bavaria)

Maximilian III Joseph (1745 - 1777) (Elector of Bavaria)...abolished the Jesuit censorship of the press. At his death...the succession passed to Charles Theodore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Theodore,_Elector_of_Bavaria) (who clashed with Weishaupt) (confusingly known in many histories as 'Carl Theodore')...For Bavaria itself Charles Theodore did less than nothing. He felt himself a foreigner among foreigners...the enlightened internal policy of his predecessor was abandoned. The funds of the suppressed order of Jesus, which Maximilian Joseph had destined for the reform of the educational system of the country, were used to endow a province of the knights of St John of Jerusalem, for the purpose of combating the enemies of the faith. The government was inspired by the narrowest clericalism, which culminated in the attempt to withdraw the Bavarian bishops from the jurisdiction of the great German metropolitans and place them directly under that of the pope. On the eve of the Revolution ( French Revolution (1789–1799)) the intellectual and social condition of Bavaria remained that of the Middle Ages...in 1795 the French, under Moreau, invaded Bavaria itself, advanced to Munich — where they were received with joy by the long-suppressed Liberals...the death of Charles Theodore (16 February 1799)...

Maximilian IV Joseph (of Zweibrücken), the new elector, succeeded to a difficult inheritance... In the war of 1805, in accordance with a treaty of alliance signed at Würzburg on 23 September, Bavarian troops, for the first time since the days of Charles VII, fought side by side with the French... ...the revolutionary changes introduced by the (Bavarian) constitution proclaimed on 1 May 1808 were due to the direct influence of Napoleon. A clean sweep was made of the medieval polity surviving in the somnolent local diets and corporations. In place of the old system of privileges and exemptions were set equality before the law, universal liability to taxation, abolition of serfdom, security of person and property, liberty of conscience and of the press. A representative assembly was created on paper, based on a narrow franchise and with very limited powers, but was never summoned...

Bavaria...dreamed of a Bavarian hegemony in South Germany similar to that of Prussia in the north. It was to obtain popular support for this policy...that the crown prince pressed for a liberal constitution...On 26 May 1818 the constitution was proclaimed. The parliament was to consist of two houses; the first comprising the great hereditary landowners, government officials and nominees of the crown; the second, elected on a very narrow franchise, comprising representatives of the small land-owners, the towns and the peasants...the parliament, chastened by the consciousness that its life depended on the goodwill of the king, moderated its tone; and Maximilian ruled till his death as a model constitutional monarch.

On 13 October 1825, his son Ludwig I succeeded him...The earlier years of his (Ludwig I's) reign were marked by a liberal spirit and the reform, especially, of the financial administration; but the revolutions of 1830 frightened him into reaction, which was accentuated by the opposition of the parliament to his expenditure on building and works of art. In 1837 the Ultramontanes came into power (in parliament) with Karl von Abel (1788-1859) as prime minister. The Jesuits now gained the upper hand; one by one the liberal provisions of the constitution were modified or annulled; the Protestants were harried and oppressed; and a rigorous censorship forbade any free discussion of internal politics...On the 17th of February 1847, Abel was dismissed...riots, in which Ultramontane professors of the university took part, resulted. The professors were deprived, the parliament dissolved, and, on 27 November, the ministry dismissed...the new minister, Prince Ludwig of Oettingen-Wallerstein (1791-1870), in spite of his efforts to enlist Liberal sympathy by appeals to pan-German patriotism, was powerless to form a stable government...in February 1848, stimulated by the news from Paris (Revolution of 1848 in France), riots broke out...on 20 March, realizing the force of public opinion against him, (Ludwig) abdicated in favour of his son, Maximilian II...

the royal dreamer (Ludwig II), whose passion for building palaces was becoming a serious drain on the treasury, had been declared insane, and, on 10 June 1886, his uncle, Prince Luitpold, became regent. Three days later, on 13 June, Ludwig II was found dead in Lake Starnberg...Due to the insanity of Ludwig's (younger) brother, King Otto I (Ludwig and his brother were both found to be insane), Prince Luitpold continued as regent...Following Prince Luitpold's death in 1912, his son, Prince Ludwig, became regent. A year later, Ludwig deposed his cousin, Otto (Otto, having been found to be insane in 1875 and confined to a castle since then was only a figurehead anyway), and proclaimed himself King Ludwig III of Bavaria. During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince Rupprecht, commanded the Bavarian army and became one of the leading German commanders on the Western Front...

By 7 November (1918) the (German) revolution had seized all larger coastal cities as well as Hanover, Brunswick, Frankfurt and Munich. In Munich a Workers' and Soldiers' Council forced the last King of Bavaria, Ludwig III, to abdicate...Republican institutions replaced royal ones in Bavaria during the upheavals of November 1918. ...On 7 November 1918, the first anniversary of the Russian October Revolution, Kurt Eisner (both of Eisner's parents were Jewish) of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) declared Bavaria a "free state" – a declaration which overthrew the monarchy of the Wittelsbach dynasty which had ruled for over 700 years. Eisner became Minister-President of Bavaria. Though he advocated a "socialist republic", he distanced himself from the Russian Bolsheviks, declaring that his government would protect property rights...Kurt Eisner (May 14, 1867 in Berlin – February 21, 1919 in Munich) was a Bavarian politician and journalist. As a German socialist journalist and statesman, he organized the Socialist Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in November 1918... Due to the inability of the new (Eisner) government to provide basic services, Eisner's Independent Social Democrats were soundly defeated in the January 1919 election... The SPD returned 1,124,000 votes as opposed to Eisner and his USDP clique's 86,000 (in the Bavarian Landtag elections on 12 January 1919)...

After Eisner's USPD had lost the elections, he decided to resign from his office. On 21 February 1919, as he was on his way to parliament to announce his resignation, he was shot by Anton Graf Arco-Valley, who was rejected from membership in the Thule Society because of Jewish ancestry on his mother's side. This assassination caused unrest and lawlessness in Bavaria, and the news of a soviet revolution in Hungary encouraged communists and anarchists to seize power... Count Anton Arco-Valley, the man who gunned Eisner down...was linked to a shadowy organisation called the Thule Society. This far-right group was a collective of influential persons obsessed with...racial purity in society. The Thule Society's sister organisation was the Schutz und Trutz Bund (League for Protection and Resistance). The symbol they chose to reflect their Aryan credentials was the Hakenkreuz, the Swastika (a symbol that had also been adopted by a number of Freikorps units). Unsurprisingly, they loathed Eisner and many Thule Society members openly called for his assassination. Arco's application to the Thule Society had been rejected because his mother was of Jewish descent. Seething with shame and rage he decided to perform a task to prove his mettle...Arco was convicted of murder, but released in 1924 (just five years after the murder) on the grounds of 'ill health'. He was to die ignominiously just after the Second World War...an apprentice butcher named Alois Linder...decided to take immediate revenge against the SPD (which he blamed for Eisner's murder)...(my words not text taken from sources linked to below:) boiling down the omnipresent verbosity, Linder and accomplices, taking revenge for the murder of Eisner, shot up the Bavarian assembly wounding the SPD leader Auer, shooting at BVP members, and killing at least one person; Linder ended up doing just 14 years in prison. Members of the Thule society desecrated the memorial to the recently assassinated Eisner (end my own words) ...

On 22 March news arrived that Budapest had been taken over by Communist forces and had established a soviet. The news worried Hoffmann, who had seen that Communist forces were rapidly gaining strength in Munich following the rise of new triumvirate known as the ‘Russians’: Towia Axelrod (note similarity to current US political bigshot David Axelrod), Max Levien and Eugen Leviné. They were called Russians because of their family connections to Russia... Leviné demanded the creation of a (Bavarian) Soviet...The radicals...came out in droves yelling the Bolshevik rallying cry "All power to the Soviets!"...the radicals proclaimed the creation of the new Soviet Republic of Bavaria on 6 April. The SPD leaders, realising that Munich was becoming dangerous, left for Nuremburg and then on to Bamberg, where a small Freikorps detachment protected them... Munich became a hotbed of extremism: the Bavarian Soviet Republic (Bayerische Räterepublik or Münchner Räterepublik) had a short-lived existence (April - May 1919)... On 6 April 1919, a Soviet Republic was formally proclaimed...the regime collapsed within six days, being replaced by the Communist Party, with Eugen Leviné, sometimes characterized as a "potential German Lenin", as their leader... The Communists secured power, with the ‘Russians’, Axelrod, Levien and Leviné, at the helm. It is worth noting that all three had Jewish backgrounds, a point the far right leapt upon and never tired of emphasising... Leviné began to enact Communist reforms, which included expropriating luxurious apartments and giving them to the homeless and placing factories under the ownership and control of their workers...

(my own words): On 27 April 1919, the USSR leader Lenin sent a "Message Of Greetings To The Bavarian Soviet Republic": (end my words start words taken from linked-to source:) "We...whole heartedly greet the Soviet Republic of Bavaria...What measures have you taken to fight the bourgeois executioners, the Scheidernanns and Co...have the workers been armed...have the capitalist factories and wealth in Munich and the capitalist farms in its environs been confiscated; have mortgage and rent payments by small peasants been cancelled; have the wages of farm labourers and unskilled workers been doubled or trebled...has the six-hour working day with two or three-hour instruction in state administration been introduced; have the bourgeoisie in Munich been made to give up surplus housing so that workers may be immediately moved into comfortable flats; have you taken over all the banks; have you taken hostages from the ranks of the bourgeoisie; have you introduced higher rations for the workers than for the bourgeoisie...The most urgent and most extensive implementation of these and similar measures...should strengthen your position. An emergency tax must be levied on the bourgeoisie, and an actual improvement effected in the condition of the workers, farm labourers and small peasants at once and at all costs. With sincere greetings and wishes of success. Lenin (http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/apr/27.htm)

Leviné refused to collaborate with the regular army of the city, and also organized his own army, the Red Army...similar to the Red Army of Soviet Russia. In order to support the revolutionary (Levine) government, thousands of unemployed workers volunteered; soon the ranks of the Rote Armee (red army) reached 20,000...Red Guards began arresting suspected counterrevolutionaries and on 29 April 1919, eight men, including the well-connected Prince Gustav von Thurn und Taxis, were accused as right-wing spies and executed. The Thule Society's secretary, Countess Hella von Westarp, was also murdered. Leviné was undisturbed by the thought of starving babies. "What does it matter," he said, "if for a few weeks less milk reaches Munich? Most of it goes to the children of the bourgeoisie anyway. We are not interested in keeping them alive. No harm if they die: they'd only grow into enemies of the proletariat."... During the last remaining days of power, the (Bavarian soviet) Communists had rounded up members of the bourgeois and those suspected of belonging to the Thule Society...Egelhofer ordered the wardens to begin executing these prisoners. Taken away in pairs they were either shot or bludgeoned to death with rifle butts...twenty prominent members of Munich society were dead...

(my words, not taken from sources linkedto below:) the anti-communist Freikorps troops imported from Germany into Bavaria, crushed the communist Bavarian troops and conquered Munich Bavaria (end my own words)... Leviné was sentenced to face the firing squad. "Long live the world revolution!" were his last words... Axelrod saved himself by claiming Russian diplomatic status and by Lenin's insistence that if he (Axelrod) were harmed then German diplomats in Russia would be shot out of revenge... The crisis in Munich pushed the Thule Society and other völkish movements to become overtly militarised... on 3 May 1919, what remained loyal of the German army (called the "White Guards of Capitalism" by the Communists), with a force of 9,000, and Freikorps such as the Freikorps Epp and the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, with 30,000, entered Munich and defeated the Communists after bitter street fights in which over 1,000 volunteer supporters of the (Bavarian Soviet Republic) government were killed. About 700 men and women were arrested and executed by the victorious Freikorps. Leviné was condemned to death for treason...