Despite his role as central organizer of the Revolutionary Stewards, and the impact of the mass strikes they led between 1916 and 1918, today Richard Muller is largely unknown. Where as most traditional histories of the period focus on the various political parties, Ralf Hoffogge, drawing on newly available archival sources, brilliantly uses Muller s story to shed light on the politics found on the shop floor in the midst of the German revolution.