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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.
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.
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 ...
It's suspected that Tamschick, a right-wing sympathiser with involvement in the Freikorps, had committed the murder as Jogiches was investigating the murders of Communist Party of Germany (KPD) co-founders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg by Guards Cavalry Division following the failed Spartacist Uprising; Jogiches was planning to release the ...
The FBI has recently made public several photos from the investigation inside the Pentagon after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The images, posted to the FBI's records vault, give a new look ...
1919 photo of the graves of Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht Grave of Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin. On 29 May 2009, Spiegel online, the internet branch of the news magazine Der Spiegel, reported the recently considered possibility that someone else's remains had mistakenly been identified as Luxemburg's and buried as hers. [55]
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The case of Philadelphia teacher Ellen Greenberg, whose 2011 stabbing death was initially ruled a homicide before the medical examiner switched it to suicide after police objected, will be heard ...