As early as the 3 November, at the very beginning of the November Revolution, the Social Democratic Party member of parliament (later Minister of State) and Würzburg resident Fritz Endres publicly demanded the introduction of the soviet republic. This demand was fulfilled on the 9 November after the monarchy was successfully overthrown in Munich on the night of November 8. Subsequently a workers and soldiers council was created in the city formed, mainly, by representatives of the SDP. Würzburg's city council and the government of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg bowed to the new conditions demanded by the council. As the economic situation in Würzburg deteriorated in early 1919, supporters of The republic fell with a military coup under the II Royal Bavarian Corps.