Uncommon ALS from the communist politician and co-founder of the Spartacus League to the independent scholar Kurt Wildhagen in Heidelberg ("the Sage of Heidelberg"), who was tutoring Leviné's wife, Rosa (née Broido). No place or date [1915/16]; 3 pp., 8vo. In part (translated from the German): "... My wife has just received a message stating that she absolutely must travel to Frankfurt tomorrow. Unfortunately, it is therefore impossible for her to take the lesson tomorrow ... When I come home on leave from Karlsruhe, I hope to see you ..." At the end, his Heidelberg address: "Ladenburgerstr. 3a / c/o Vogel." On the fourth page, a postscript in pencil by Rosa Leviné, as well as notes in another hand. Smudge marks. Very rare. 7 x 4.25 inches; 18 x 11 cm.

Leviné was one of the leaders of the short-lived Bavarian Council Republic and a member of the Communist Party of Germany. Together with hundreds of other workers, communists, socialists and anarchists, he was arrested following the attack on Munich by the German Army and the Freikorps, and was executed by firing squad on June 5, 1919, at Stadelheim Prison in Munich after being convicted of high treason for his leadership in the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic.