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Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht (German: [ˈliːpknɛçt] ⓘ; 13 August 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a German socialist and anti-militarist. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) beginning in 1900, he was one of its deputies in the Reichstag from 1912 to 1916, where he represented the left-revolutionary wing of the party.
Karl Liebknecht was a German Social Democrat, who, with Rosa Luxemburg and other radicals, founded the Spartakusbund (Spartacus League), a Berlin underground group that became the Communist Party of Germany, dedicated to a socialist revolution.
Karl Liebknecht, (born Aug. 13, 1871, Leipzig, Ger.—died Jan. 15, 1919, Berlin), German socialist leader. Son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, he became a lawyer and a Marxist. In 1912 he entered the Reichstag and led the opposition to Germany’s pre-World War I policy.
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May 21, 2018 · Liebknecht, Karl (1871–1919) German communist revolutionary, son of Wilhelm Liebknecht. He vigorously opposed Germany 's participation in World War I, and was imprisoned (1916–18). With Rosa Luxemburg, Liebknecht was a leader of the communist group known as the Spartacists.
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LIEBKNECHT, KARL (1871–1919) BIBLIOGRAPHY. Socialist agitator and a founder of the German Communist Party. Karl Liebknecht was the son of Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900), a prominent leader of the socialist movement from its beginnings in the 1860s.
Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht was a German socialist and anti-militarist. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany beginning in 1900, he was one of its deputies in the Reichstag from 1912 to 1916, where he represented the left-revolutionary wing of the party.
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May 22, 2015 · Karl Liebknecht was born in August 1871 and died in January 1919. Liebknecht achieved fame immediately after the war by leading, with Rosa Luxemburg, the Spartacists in the so-called German Revolution against the government of Friedrich Ebert.
Karl Liebknecht was the leading German socialist opponent of the First World War. He was the first member of parliament to vote against the financing of the war. On 1 May 1916 he was arrested and imprisoned for giving an anti-war speech in central Berlin.
Karl’s father Wilhelm Liebknecht was the well-known and popular founder of the German Social-Democratic party (SPD) in 1863, a veteran of the revolution in 1848-49. He immigrated to London where he joined the League of Communists.
Spartacus League, revolutionary socialist group active in Germany from autumn 1914 to the end of 1918. It was officially founded in 1916 by Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, and Franz Mehring. The name derived from their illegally distributed pamphlets Spartakusbriefen (Spartacus.
