The printer and newspaper publisher Josef Fürst became chairman of the Workers' and Farmers' Council in 1918. Disputes within the council and the rejection of the communist Munich Soviet Republic of 1919 led to Josef Fürst resigning as chairman of the Murnau council. He published his reasons in his newspaper: "Disgusted by the continuous, lying distortions that my best intentions to represent Murnau's well-being in the People's Council or Workers' and Farmers' Council have been met with in recent days by certain personalities, I have lost all enthusiasm for continuing to work in the Workers' and Farmers' Council in the interests of Murnau, and so I have resigned from the chairmanship today and left the Workers' and Farmers' Council." The Thule Society, founded in Munich, is a melting pot of nationalistic, anti-Semitic and right-wing radical ideas. It is proven that two Murnau residents, Gottfried Feder and Otto Engelbrecht, are also among its members. During the Soviet Republic in April 1919, two early supporters of Hitler, Dietrich Eckart and Gottfried Feder, wrote an anti-Semitic leaflet. The message is very simple: there is a Jewish world conspiracy and the Jews are to blame for everything. "Wherever we look, working people are groaning under the bondage of interest. Loan capital stretches across the globe like a polyp and sucks the lifeblood of peoples. Internationally, it is interconnected, it must be interconnected, so that it can find new nourishment wherever the opportunity presents itself. Invisibly in league with the Mendelssohns, the Bleichröders, the Friedländers, and the Warburgs are the Löb [!], the Schiffs, the Cahns, the Peyer, and the Morgans of America! Rathenau's vanity once revealed to us how many there are. “'300 men, all of whom know each other, are guiding the destiny of Europe,' he triumphantly proclaimed several years ago.”