Liebknecht, Karl
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Liebknecht, Karl (b. 13 Aug. 1871, d. 15 Jan. 1919). German Communist A lawyer, he joined the
SPD in 1900, became a member of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies in 1908, and in the German Parliament in 1912, where he was the sole MP to reject the taking of loans to finance the war on 4 December 1914. Because of his opposition to the war he was expelled from the party and imprisoned 1916–18. Together with Rosa
Luxemburg he founded the
Spartakist group and the
Communist Party on 1 January 1919. He was murdered in a Spartakist rising which he led.
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The Spartacist uprising in Berlin: Jan 5 1919.(MONTHS PAST)
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...liking of the Marxist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, who believed...to Germany and across Europe. Liebknecht, whose ambition was to be the...quickly declared illegal and Liebknecht was sent to the eastern front...
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Art as expression: Kathe Kollwitz. (appreciation of the late German artist and printmaker)
Magazine article from: School Arts; 2/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...expressive effects. Kollwitz' Karl Liebknecht Memorial is a dramatic black...Though she did not agree with Liebknecht politically, she was horrified...German military's murders of Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg, another...
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Leaving Prints Behind; A DEMOCRATIC MEDIUM FOR UN-DEMOCRATIC TIMES
Newspaper article from: Pittsburgh City Paper; 8/4/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Meanwhile, in her breathtaking woodcut Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht (1919-1920), Kollwitz depicts the funeral of slain union leader Karl Liebknecht, who was one of a thousand protesters killed during...
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Frank Mecklenberg and Manfred Stassen, eds., German Essays on Socialism in the Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 6/22/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...following headings: Karl Marx and Friedrich...Engels, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Ferdinand Lassalle...Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Kautsky ("The...Women"); Liebknecht and Luxemburg...237-41). Karl Liebknecht's and Rosa Luxemburg...
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Ana Torfs
Magazine article from: Artforum; 12/1/2006; ; 697 words
; ...the trial for the murders of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, the pacifist...rifleman. "I don't think I got Liebknecht." Since no one was convicted...executed criminals, who, like Liebknecht and Luxemburg, were killed with...
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Ana Torfs: Daadgalerie.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the trial for the murders of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, the pacifist...rifleman. "I don't think I got Liebknecht." Since no one was convicted...executed criminals, who, like Liebknecht and Luxemburg, were killed with...
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16 JANUARY 1919 ; Days like these
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/16/2007; ; 340 words
; ...Berlin, writes in his diary: "Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg [leading...with a dreadful end. Last night Liebknecht was shot while being taken in...the civil war, which she and Liebknecht plotted, they had so many lives...
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37 DISSIDENTS ALLOWED OUT OF EAST GERMANY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/24/1988; ; 430 words
; ...17 honoring Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the leaders who founded the...from writings by Luxemburg and Liebknecht, and criticized policies of...marks the deaths of Luxemburg and Liebknecht, who were killed by soldiers...
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Berlin: Neil Taylor suggests that the starting point from which to explore the full and varied history of Berlin is the apparently empty space at its centre.
Magazine article from: History Today; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...nobody actually founded a regime on the square, for Karl Liebknecht, this was not through lack of trying. He proclaimed...doubt where the new centre should be. It had to be where Karl Friedrich Schinkel designated it; he was after all Berlin...
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A City of Heroes and Saxon allure Visitors drawn to a rebounding Leipzig
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 1/11/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...s center circle (the Zentrum) or abutting the Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse along the south (sud) side of the city...city center sits the Hotel Markgraf, right off the Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse, at Kornerstrasse 36, (49-341) 3030...
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Karl Liebknecht
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Karl Liebknecht , 1871-1919, German socialist, leader...German Communist party. In Jan., 1919, Liebknecht led an uprising against the government...prison. Bibliography: See K. W. Meyer, Karl Liebknecht (1957).
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Liebknecht, Karl
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Liebknecht, Karl (1871–1919) German communist revolutionary, son of Wilhelm Liebknecht . He vigorously opposed Germany's...x2013;18). With Rosa Luxemburg , Liebknecht was a leader of the communist group...
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Liebknecht, Wilhelm
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Liebknecht, Wilhelm (1826–1900) German revolutionary, father of Karl Liebknecht . After taking part in the Revolutions...he associated with Marx . In 1869, Liebknecht and August Bebel founded the Social...
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Wilhelm Liebknecht
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Wilhelm Liebknecht , 1826-1900, German...became associated with Karl Marx . Although greatly...his return to Germany, Liebknecht initially joined the socialist...North German Reichstag, Liebknecht, a confirmed pacifist...
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Rosa Luxemburg
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...international socialist movement. With Karl Kautsky, Luxemburg headed the...revolutionary Spartacus Union with Karl Liebknecht. When she again emerged from prison...and drafted its program. She and Liebknecht urged revolution against the Ebert...
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