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Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht (German: [ˈliːpknɛçt] ⓘ; 13 August 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a German politician and revolutionary socialist.A leader of the far-left wing of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Liebknecht was a co-founder of the Spartacus League and Communist Party of Germany (KPD) along with Rosa Luxemburg.
Liebknecht is the only one of the Reichstag — including 111 SPD representatives — to vote against the war loans, resulting in a number of death threats and work bans. Despite his immunity as a Reichstag member, Liebknecht is called to serve on the front as a sapper. It is here that he writes his 1915 manifesto, "The main enemy is at home ...
[citation needed] [note 2] Schmidtsdorf was arrested on February 5, 1938, with fellow troupe members Kurt Ahrendt and Karl Oefelein, all charged with founding a branch of the Hitler Youth. All three were executed three weeks later. [11] Ahrendt was also from the Karl Liebknecht School, where he was a leader of the Young Pioneers. [citation needed]
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On 16 January 1919 Pieck, along with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, was arrested in Berlin's Wilmersdorf district and taken to the Eden Hotel. [6] Liebknecht and Luxemburg were then killed while "being taken to prison" by a unit of Freikorps. [7] While the two were being murdered, Pieck claimed that he managed to escape.
Karl Liebknecht is a two-part East German film series directed by Günter Reisch, about the German communist leader Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919), starring Horst Schulze in the part as Liebknecht, and Lyudmila Kasyanova as Sophie Liebknecht. The first film, from 1965, Karl Liebknecht - Solange Leben in mir ist.