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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.
Friedrich Ebert, the SPD leader who effectively controlled the Council of the People's Deputies. The revolution reached Berlin on Saturday 9 November. With the backing of the SPD, the Revolutionary Stewards and the Spartacus League – groups that favoured a soviet-style council republic – called a general strike.
The uprising took its popular name from the Marxist Spartacus League (Spartakusbund), which Luxemburg and Liebknecht founded in 1914. When the KPD was established on 1 January 1919, the Spartacus League became part of it.
The Ebert government felt threatened by a coup from the Left and was certainly undermined by the Spartacus movement. That underlay its cooperation with the Supreme Army Command and the Freikorps . The brutal actions of the Freikorps during the various revolts estranged many left democrats from the SPD.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 January 2025. Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919) "Luxemburg" redirects here. For other uses, see Luxembourg (disambiguation). For other uses, see Rosa Luxemburg (disambiguation). Rosa Luxemburg Luxemburg, c. 1895–1905 Born Rozalia Luksenburg (1871-03-05) 5 March 1871 Zamość ...
The sailors offered Ebert the office of president, but he dismissed the idea. The troops then withdrew and searched the editorial office of the Rote Fahne (Red Flag), the newspaper of the Spartacus League. Other troops not from the People's Navy Division arrested the Executive Council, leading to violent confrontations.
In December 1918, Schleicher delivered an ultimatum to Friedrich Ebert on behalf of Paul von Hindenburg demanding that the German provisional government either allow the Army to crush the Spartacus League or the Army would do that task itself. [4]
Spartacus League (1918–19) Soviet republics in Germany (1918–19) Far-right. Freikorps; Der Stahlhelm; Organisation Consul; Nazi Party. Sturmabteilung; Commanders and leaders; Friedrich Ebert Paul von Hindenburg: Rosa Luxemburg Karl Liebknecht Karl Radek Ernst Thälmann Wilhelm Pieck Richard Müller Kurt Eisner † Ernst Toller Eugen Leviné ...