Paving the way for David Koresh and so many others who came after, Friedrich Muck-Lamberty may well have been the ORIGINAL guitar-playing cult leader. "Muck," as he was known, is counted by historians among the "inflation saints" (Inflationsheiligen) of the Notgeld era: charismatic leaders who arose during a time of great poverty and upheaval.
"Muck" was a young song-and-dance preacher whose free-dancing, free-thinking, free-loving movement of young people was called the Neue Schar ('the new crowd'). Like any good cult leader, he ultimately impregnated a few too many of his female followers, and was for