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	Karl Liebknecht: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Karl Liebknecht (August 13, 1871 - January 15, 1919) was a German (A person of German nationality) socialist (A political advocate of socialism) and a co-founder of the Spartacist League (additional info and facts about Spartacist League) and the Communist Party of Germany (additional info and facts about Communist Party of Germany).
		Karl Liebknecht was an active member of the Second International (additional info and facts about Second International) and a founder of the "Socialist Youth International".
		Liebknecht was arrested again following a demonstration against the war in Berlin (Capital of Germany located in eastern Germany) on May 1st 1916 that was organized by the Spartacus League, and sentenced to two and a half years in jail for high treason, which was later increased to four years and one month.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/karl_liebknecht.htm (411 words)

	Karl Liebknecht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the end of 1914, Liebknecht, together with Rosa Luxemburg, Leo Jogiches, Paul Levi, Ernest Meyer, Franz Mehring and Clara Zetkin formed the so-called Spartacist League (Spartakusbund); the league publicized its views in a newspaper titled Spartakusbriefe ("Spartacus Letters") which was soon declared illegal.
		Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were abducted by Freikorps soldiers on January 15, 1919, and brought to the Eden Hotel in Berlin where they were tortured and interrogated for several hours.
		Karl Liebknecht archive (a free library of his most important works).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karl_Liebknecht (737 words)

	Encyclopedia: Karl Liebknecht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Wilhelm Liebknecht Wilhelm Liebknecht (March 29, 1826 - August 7, 1900) was a German social democrat, one of the founders of the SPD and father of Karl Liebknecht and Theodor Liebknecht.
		Karl Liebknecht (August 13, 1871 - January 15, 1919) was a German socialist and a co-founder of the Spartacist League.
		As a lawyer, Karl Liebknecht often defended other left-wing socialists who were tried for offences such as smuggling of socialist propoganda into Russia, a task in which he was involved himself as well.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Karl-Liebknecht (2878 words)

	Liebknecht, Karl. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Released from prison, Liebknecht entered the Prussian lower house in 1908 and the Reichstag in 1912.
		Imprisoned again for his antiwar activities, Liebknecht was released just before the proclamation of the German republic in Nov., 1918.
		In Jan., 1919, Liebknecht led an uprising against the government.
	www.bartleby.com /65/li/LiebknecK.html (202 words)

	Karl Liebknecht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Karl Liebknecht was born in August 1871 and died in January 1919.
		Liebknecht came from a political background in that his father was a leading socialist in Germany and his ideas could not have failed to influence Karl.
		Liebknecht was arrested and spent the rest of the war in prison only being released in October 1918 when Prince Max von Baden granted an amnesty to all political prisoners.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /karl_liebknecht.htm (628 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Karl Liebknecht
		Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919) was a leading German revolutionary at the close of the First World War.
		Liebknecht was soon arguing in favour of a revolutionary uprising, a stance which led to his arrest and conscription into the army in February 1915; he served on the Eastern Front burying the German dead until ill-health brought his return home in October 1915.
		Undaunted by the uproar caused by this act and continuing to campaign against the war's continuation, Liebknecht was shortly afterwards arrested and sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for sedition.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/liebknecht.htm (377 words)

	Militarism and Anti-militarism, by Karl Liebknecht, 1918 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Karl Liebknecht was originally a member of the SDP in Germany and later one of the founding members of the Communist Party in Germany.
		Liebknecht was a fierce opponent of the first world war and was jailed in 1916 for anti-war agitation.
		Karl Liebknecht and fellow German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg were both murdered by the Freikorps in 1919.
	sites.scran.ac.uk /redclyde/redclyde/rc050.htm (129 words)

	Berlin: The City as Body The City as Metaphor
		He was the first in the Reichstag to vote against war credits and spoke out publicly, as early as January 1915, for the transformation of the national war into a civil or class war.
		Liebknecht edited the famous illegal "Spartacus Letters," the "official" organ of the Spartakusbund.
		On May 1, 1916, Liebknecht participated in a May Day demonstration in Berlin and called for the overthrow of the government and an end to the war and was tried and imprisoned.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/german/berlin_class/people/liebknecht2.html (423 words)

	ipedia.com: Karl Liebknecht Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Karl Liebknecht was a German socialist and a co-founder of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany.
		Born in Leipzig, he was the son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the S...
		On November 9, Liebknecht declared the forming of the "freie sozialistische Republik" (free socialist republic) from a balcony of the Berlin castle, two hours after Philipp Scheidemann's declaration of the "German republic" from a balcony of the Reichstag; on December 31 1918 / January 1 1919, he was involved in the founding of the KPD.
	www.ipedia.com /karl_liebknecht.html (375 words)

	Karl Liebknecht. Militarism. New York: Huebsch. 1917. Table of Contents. Preface.
		The Socialist Party, Liebknecht had maintained, as in the past, should energetically defend the private soldiers and the non-commissioned officers, should represent their material and professional interests in the press and in parliament and should endeavor tactfully to win the sympathies of these circles.
		Liebknecht's courageous stand on this occasion was rewarded by a sentence of a year and a half in a military prison, as before stated.
		Liebknecht also raised his voice in behalf of a German Republic at a time when those who now declare that the only way to end the war is by making Germany a republic, supported and encouraged the German monarchy.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/1917/liebknecht/liebTC.html (2962 words)

	Martyrdom of Liebknecht and Luxemburg
		Liebknecht welcomed the 1905 Revolution in Russia and came into a sharp political clash with the revisionists, defending the general mass strike as a special proletarian means of struggle.
		Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were among the founders of the Communist Party of Germany which held its constituent congress from 30th December, 1918 to January 1, 1919.
		For fraudulently passing the judgement in the case regarding the killing of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in 1919, Judge Hentz, supposedly, was dismissed from the post of the Chief Prosecutor of Germany after a trial in 1929.
	revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv5n1/luxembrg.htm (3018 words)

	Karl Liebknecht
		Karl Liebknecht, the son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, was born in Leipzig on 13th August, 1871.
		Liebknecht studied law and political economy at Leipzig and Berlin where he was converted to the ideas of Karl Marx.
		On the left-wing of the Social Democratic Party, Liebknecht was one of the main opponents of the party's conservative leadership.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERliebknecht.htm (366 words)

	International women's day
		At the time of their deaths, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were leaders of the Spartacus group, the left wing of the workers' movement.
		The campaign for a consistent anti-militarist policy, centred on the youth, was carried forward by Karl Liebknecht, in the teeth of opposition from the increasingly reactionary SPD leaders.
		Liebknecht was beaten and shot in the back so his captors could claim he was "shot while trying to escape".
	www.fifthinternational.org /LFIfiles/rosa.html (3760 words)

	John Reed -Karl Liebknecht's Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It was a large, bare room, the walls hung with picturer of Bebel and the elder Liebknecht, and memorials of historic events in the great history of the German Social Democracy.
		Liebknecht sat at it table in the middle of the room, the lower half of his face faintly illuminated by a green-shaded lamp.
		Liebknecht was arrested, and while being taken in an automobile to prison by a group of "armed volunteers," (no doubt aristocratic young officers), was shot "while trying to escape" "when the automobile broke down" crossing the Tiergarten.
	www.sozialistische-klassiker.org /Reed/Reede6.html (522 words)

	Chapter Four (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Karl Liebknecht had a deep understanding of this and in his understanding of human predation he was able to explain not only the politics of his day, but explain the politics of our day including the politics of ET.
		Karl was assassinated in 1919 by the, "freebooters" the establishments instruments who incidentally also produced Hitler.
		Karl asserted that war was merely a continuance of the politics of class, that is you cannot seperate the two because war itself affected certain classes in certain ways.
	politicsofet.com /custom.html (885 words)

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		(W. Liebknecht: Karl Marx zum Gedaechtnis, quoted in Kaissiber, of which more later.) In London, where Marx and other political refugees had gathered around 1850, Marx once announced triumphantly that he had found a new move with which he would beat everybody, and at first this proved indeed to be the case.
		Next morning Liebknecht was visited by Lenchen, who told him that Marx's wife urgently requested him not to play chess with her husband during the evenings anymore, as Marx was intolerable when he lost.
		In his recent biography Karl Marx the author Francis Wheen writes that Marx played the game in 1867, when he was in Germany to check the proofs of his main work Das Kapital, at a houseparty given by the chess master G.R.L. Neumann.
	www.chesscafe.com /text/hans46.txt (1190 words)

	Karl Marx, 1818-1883 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, Karl Marx, is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century.
		Karl Heinrich Marx was born into a comfortable middle-class home in Trier on the river Moselle in Germany on May 5, 1818.
		In Germany, he opposed in his Critique of the Gotha Programme, the tendency of his followers Karl Liebknecht (1826-1900) and August Bebel (1840-1913) to compromise with state socialism of Lasalle in the interests of a united socialist party.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/marx.html (2015 words)

	Marxism Glossary - L
		Liebknecht, Karl - (1871-1919) Son of SPD founder Wilheim Liebknecht, joined party 1900.
		Founder and leader of the KPD; she opposed the call for the January rising, although this was not reflected in her articles.
		Her arrest was ordered by the Social Democratic government for her participation in the uprising, and she was brutally murdered by the SDP-instigated Freikorps at the same time as Liebknecht.
	www.newyouth.com /archives/theory/glossary/l.asp?format=print (738 words)

	Karl Liebknecht -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It was officially founded in 1916 by Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, and Franz Mehring.
		Known during his lifetime only to a small group of socialists and revolutionaries, Karl Marx wrote books now considered by Communists all over the world to be the source of absolute truth on matters of economics, philosophy, and politics.
		Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler were two of the automobile industry's pioneers.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9048178 (676 words)

	PeaceNews #2447: Article
		It was a controversy between the German social-democrat Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919), a well-known personality in the international social-democratic movement, and the Dutch libertarian socialist, Domela Nieuwenhuis (1846-1919).
		Karl Liebknecht also performed civil disobedience and refused participation in war preparations in the parliament.
		Liebknecht was murdered by soldiers in 1919 along with Rosa Luxemburg.
	www.peacenews.info /issues/2447/244725.html (880 words)

	Karl Liebknecht: Leipzig, 13 August 1871
		Karl, his four brothers and two half sisters were 'children of the revolution'.
		By 1916 opposition to the war among soldiers in the trenches and hungry civilians was growing, and Liebknecht and his comrades in the Spartacus grouping decided to raise the stakes.
		Liebknecht, together with Rosa Luxemburg, found himself in the thick of the struggle and committed to building a new revolutionary party to replace the SPD which was now the last line of defence for German capitalism.
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /sr232/birchall.htm (968 words)

	Degussa - Otto Liebknecht
		After leaving high school, Otto Liebknecht, son of the co-founder of social democracy Wilhelm Liebknecht and brother of Karl Liebknecht, studied chemistry.
		Otto Liebknecht's greatest breakthrough however was in the field of sodium perborate production.
		Thanks to his outstanding research achievements, Otto Liebknecht was appointed head chemist at the research laboratory in Frankfurt after just five years with the company.
	www.degussa.com /geschichte/en/personalities/otto_liebknecht.html (492 words)

	AllRefer.com - Wilhelm Liebknecht (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Upon his return to Germany, Liebknecht initially joined the socialist group founded by Ferdinand Lassalle.
		Shortly afterward he broke with the Lassalleans because of doctrinal differences, and in 1869 with his disciple August Bebel, he formed the Social Democratic Labor party.
		He incurred the enmity of Otto von Bismarck, was convicted of treason, and with Bebel spent two years in prison (1872–74).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/LiebknecW.html (294 words)

	Berlin - Alternative Guide Book
		Desecrated by the Nazis, as a result of which the bodies of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht have disappeared.
		Karl Liebknecht was murdered in 1919, near the bank of a lake in the Tiergarten.
		1917, Karl Liebknecht was arrested for staging an anti-war rally.
	bdaugherty.tripod.com /berlin/altgb.html (3338 words)

	Rosa Luxemburg
		Rosa Luxemburg, along with Karl Liebknecht, was to play a key role in Germany in the months that immediately followed the Armistice in November 1918.
		It was at this time that she allied with Karl Liebknecht who shared the same views and had also left the SDP.
		The head of the government, Friedrich Ebert, had moved the government to the safety of Weimar and the right-wing Freikorps was left to deal with the communists.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /rosa_luxemburg.htm (576 words)

	Berlin: The City as Body The City as Metaphor
		German Social Democrat, who, with Rosa Luxemburg and other radicals, founded the Spartakusbund (Spartacus League), a Berlin underground group that became the Communist Party of Germany, dedicated to a socialist revolution.
		Liebknecht was killed in the Spartacus Revolt of January 1919.
		The son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, Karl grew up during the years when the Anti-Socialist Law was in force against his father's Socialist Labour Party (which became the Social Democratic Party in 1891).
	www.stanford.edu /dept/german/berlin_class/people/liebknecht.html (319 words)

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