 In total, more than 2,200 supporters of the Council Republic were condemned to death or imprisonment by tribunals.The 23-year-old Egelhofer as one of the most prominent representatives of the Communist council rule was discovered and arrested on 1 May in his hiding place in an apartment on Maximilianstraße.After severe maltreatment he was shot dead without trial on 3 May at the Munich Residenz city palace, where he was being held.