Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
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 ...
Liebknecht was taken from the hotel shortly after Luxemburg and after getting into a waiting car was knocked almost unconscious, again by Otto Runge. The car stopped in the Berlin Tiergarten, Liebknecht was forced out then shot in the back as a "fugitive". His body was handed over to a Berlin police station as the "corpse of an unknown man".
The former pastor of a Myrtle Beach church has been arrested after an apparent disturbance in the Market Common area.. Miller, 45, was charged by Myrtle Beach Police with third-degree assault and ...
Tolento’s attorney, Tom Nocella, laid full blame on the other driver, who is serving 15 years to life after being found guilty of second-degree murder, saying: “Mr Villa, we know, caused the ...
The man arrested under suspicion of killing a 4-year-old girl in a hit-and-run crash in Milwaukee on Tuesday was previously convicted of killing another pedestrian while driving without a license.
Sri Lanka-linked death squad: Farag Foda: 1992: 9 June Egyptian professor Heliopolis Egypt: Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya: Marsha P. Johnson: 1992: 4 July Gay liberation and AIDS activist New York City United States: Unknown (described by witnesses as a "group of thugs") Tavio Amorin: 1992: 29 July 1992 Togolese politician Lomé Togo: police Tahar ...