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The Karl-Liebknecht-Haus or Karl Liebknecht House is the headquarters of the party The Left in Germany. It is located between Alexanderplatz and Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin-Mitte . Constructed in 1912 as a factory, the building was purchased by the Communist Party of Germany ( Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands , KPD) in 1926.
Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht (German: [ˈliːpknɛçt] ⓘ; 13 August 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a German revolutionary 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.
Monument for Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, Berlin-Friedrichsfelde 1926. The November Revolution Monument was a memorial erected in 1926 at the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin, in memory of the KPD leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and of other militants, who were murdered in 1919 and 1920 during the repression of the leftist riots through paramilitary troops loyal to ...
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße. Karl-Liebknecht-Straße is a major street in the central Mitte district of the German capital Berlin. It is named after Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919), one of the founders of the Communist Party of Germany. The street connects the Unter den Linden boulevard with the Prenzlauer Allee arterial road leading to the northern ...
Coordinates: 52°31′37″N 13°24′40″E. Volksbühne, erected 1914. Architect: Oskar Kaufmann (rebuilt 1954 following a World War II bombardment.) Babylon cinema. Architect: Hans Poelzig. Karl-Liebknecht-Haus, headquarters of the German Left Party in 2007. Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, formerly the Bülowplatz, is a square in Berlin-Mitte, Germany.
The site of the Sophiensæle was originally the Handwerkervereinshaus — the house of the craftspersons’ association — and as a result was a site that was connected to significant political events in German history. For example, it was the location where Karl Liebknecht appealed to the workers of Berlin to join the 1918 German Revolution.
On 10 November, the day after Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg declared a similar 'socialist republic' in Germany, communists in Luxembourg City declared a republic, but it lasted for only a matter of hours. [55] Another revolt took place in Esch-sur-Alzette in the early hours of 11 November, but also failed. [56]
The Spartacus League (German: Spartakusbund) was a Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during World War I. [1] It was founded in August 1914 as the International Group by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Clara Zetkin, and other members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who were dissatisfied with the party's official policies in support of the war.