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  Karl Liebknecht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Leipzig, he was the son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Liebknecht was arrested and sent to the eastern front during World War I for the group's echoing of Russian Bolsheviks' arguments for a Proletarian Revolution; refusing to fight, he served burying the dead, and due to his rapidly deteriorating health was allowed to return to Germany in October 1915.
Liebknecht was arrested again following a demonstration against the war in Berlin 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.
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 Wilhelm Liebknecht - Wikipedia
Liebknecht studierte von 1843 bis 1846 zuerst in seiner Heimatstadt Gießen Philologie und evangelische Theologie, dazwischen auch ein Semester Philosophie in Berlin.
Wilhelm Liebknecht gilt zusammen mit Ferdinand Lassalle und August Bebel als einer der bedeutendsten frühen Anführer der deutschen Sozialdemokratie mit auch internationalem Renommée.
Wilhelm Liebknechts Sohn Theodor stieg nach der Ermordung seines ein Jahr jüngeren Bruders als Mitglied der USPD in die Parteipolitik ein.
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 Karl Liebknecht   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Karl Liebknecht (August 13, 1871 - January 15, 1919) was a German socialist and a co-founder of the Spartacist League.
In 1912 Liebknecht was elected to the Reichstag as a Social-Democrat, despite being one a member of the SPD's left wing; he opposed Germany's participation in World War I and was a major critic of the more moderate Social-Democratic leadership under Karl Kautsky.
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.
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 Wilhelm Liebknecht - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
In 1850, Liebknecht was arrested for his initiatives to unite Switzerland's German workers' associations and banished from the country, moving to his exile in London, where he stayed from 1850 to 1862 and became a member of the communist association, meeting Karl Marx in the process.
In 1872, Liebknecht, together with August Bebel, was sentenced to two years of Festungshaft ("imprisonment in a fortress") for high treason in a political prosecution known as the Leipziger Hochverratsprozess.
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 Karl Liebknecht - Wikipedia
Von 1893 bis 1894 musste Liebknecht Militärdienst bei den Gardepionieren in Berlin leisten.
Wenige Tage nach dem gescheiterten Aufstandsversuch wurden Karl Liebknecht und Rosa Luxemburg in einem Versteck in Wilmersdorf - wahrscheinlich durch eine Denunziation - von einer "Bürgerwehr" entdeckt, aufgegriffen und an die Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivison - das weitaus größte der frisch aufgestellten "Freikorps" - übergeben.
Januar 1919 wurden Liebknecht und Luxemburg dann zuerst bewusstlos geschlagen, in einen bereitstehenden PKW gesetzt und abtransportiert.
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 Karl Liebknecht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Karl Liebknecht (August 13, 1871 - January 15, 1919) was a German socialist and a co-founder of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany.
At the end of 1914, Liebknecht, together with Rosa Luxemburg, Leo Jogiches,,, Franz Mehring and Clara Zetkin formed the so-called Spartacist League (Spartakusbund); the league publicizied its views in a newspaper titled Spartakusbriefe ("Spartacus Letters") which was soon declared illegal.
Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were abducted by Freikorps soldiers, brought to the Eden Hotel in Berlin where they were tortured and interrogated for several hours before being executed and dumped into the canal on January 15, 1919.
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 Wilhelm Liebknecht   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1850, Liebknecht was arrested for his initiatives to unite Switzerland's Germanworkers' associations and banished from the country, moving to his exile in London, where he stayed from 1850 to 1862 and became a member of the communist association, meeting Karl Marx in the process.
In 1872, Liebknecht, together with August Bebel, was sentenced to two years of Festungshaft ("imprisonment in a fortress") for high treason in a political prosecutionknown as the Leipziger Hochverratsprozess.
From 1878 to 1890, Liebknecht used his position asa Reichstag member to criticize the political situation even under Otto von Bismarck 's "Sozialistengesetz" ("Socialists' law"); in 1891, he became editor-in-chief of "Vorwärts" and one of the originators of the SPD 's new Marxist -inspired party platform.
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 Wilhelm Liebknecht   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1850 Liebknecht was arrested for his initiatives unite Switzerland's German workers' associations and banished the country moving to his exile in where he stayed from 1850 to 1862 and became a member of the communist association meeting Karl Marx in the process.
In 1872 Liebknecht together with August Bebel was sentenced to two years of Festungshaft ("imprisonment in a fortress") for high in a political prosecution known as the Leipziger Hochverratsprozess.
From 1878 to 1890 Liebknecht used his position as a Reichstag member to criticize the political situation under Otto von Bismarck 's " Sozialistengesetz " ("Socialists' law"); in 1891 he became editor-in-chief of " Vorwärts " and one of the originators of SPD 's new Marxist -inspired party platform.
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 Wilhelm Liebknecht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following his release in May 1849, he became a member of the and an adjutant of Struve and fought in the ("federal constitution wars"); after the revolutionaries' defeat, he escaped to Switzerland and became a member of the Genfer Arbeiterverein (Worker's Association of Geneva), where he met Friedrich Engels.
From 1864 to 1865, Liebknecht also worked on the magazine "Der Social-Demokrat" ("the Social Democrat") published by ; however, he soon found himself in disagreement with the paper's Prussia-friendly position, leaving the editorial staff and also being forced to leave the ADAV due to pressure from Schweitzer.
In 1872, Liebknecht, together with August Bebel, was sentenced to two years of ("imprisonment in a fortress") for high treason in a political prosecution known as the.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Karl Liebknecht
In 1901 Liebknecht was elected to serve on Berlin's town council, a position he retained until 1913.
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.
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 KARL LIEBKNECHT
Liebknecht sposò Julia Paradies l'8 maggio 1900; la coppia ebbe due figli e una figlia prima della morte della moglie nel 1911.
Come avvocato, Karl Liebknecht spesso difese altri socialisti che venivano processati per reati come la diffusione di propaganda socialista in Russia, un compito nel quale era anch'egli coinvolto.
Nel 1912 Liebknecht venne eletto al Reichstag come socialdemocratico, nonostante fosse un membreo dell'ala sinistra dell'SPD; si oppose alla partecipazione tedesca nella prima guerra mondiale e fu uno dei principali critici della più moderata leadership socialdemocratica di Karl Kautsky.
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 Biographie: Wilhelm Liebknecht, 1826-1900
September: Liebknecht beteiligt sich als Freischärler an der republikanischen Erhebung von Gustav von Struve (1805-1870) in Baden und gerät in Untersuchungshaft.
Liebknecht wird einer der Führer der Partei und leitet die Herausgabe des Parteiorgans "Der Volksstaat".
Liebknecht wird Redakteur des neu gegründeten Parteiorgans "Vorwärts" und tritt in seinen Beiträgen für die Durchsetzung der marxistischen Theorie in der SAP ein.
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 Glossary of People: Li   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1862 Wilhelm returned to Germany, and in 1863-65 was a member of the General German Workers' Association.
Son of Wilhelm Liebknecht; founding leader of the Socialist Youth International in 1907; Left Wing German Social Democrat.
Liebknecht alone represents socialism, the proletarian cause, the proletarian revolution.
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 Theodor Liebknecht   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Born in Leipzig in 1870 as the son of Wilhelm Liebknecht and the brother of Karl Liebknecht, Theodor Liebknecht studied law and worked as a lawyer in Berlin from 1899 on, becoming politically activeafter his brother's murder in January 1919.
A right-wing member of the SAPD, he was opposed to the introduction of Leninist schemes of organization into the party; following the Nazi rise to power, he emigrated to Basel, Switzerland in 1933 and was later emplyed by the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam from 1936 to 1939.
Liebknecht was also a supporter of the International Working Union of Socialist Parties (IWUSP); he died in Altendorf, near Hanover, Germany, in 1948.
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 Kaiser Wilhelm Canal: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Wilhelm Liebknecht and the Founding of the German Social Democratic Party
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His father, Wilhelm Liebknecht, was one of Germany's leading socialists who helped form the Social Democratic Party in 1891.
Liebknecht also wrote extensively against militarism and this resulted in him being imprisoned for eighteen months in Glatz, Silesia.
On the left-wing of the Social Democratic Party, Liebknecht was one of the main opponents of the party's conservative leadership.
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 WILHELM LIEBKNECHT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wilhelm Liebknecht war zusammen mit August Bebel und Paul Singer einer der bedeutendsten SPD-Führer.
Sein Sohn Karl Liebknecht war als SPD-Reichstagsabgeordneter 1914 einer der wenigen radikalen Gegner des Ersten Weltkriegs und Mitbegründer der KPD.
An Wilhelm Liebknechts Beerdigung auf dem seitdem so genannten Sozialistenfriedhof nahmen über 150.000 Menschen teil.
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 Articles - Spartacist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Liebknecht was the son of SPD founder Wilhelm Liebknecht.
Liebknecht and Luxemburg were imprisoned from 1916 until 1918 for their roles in helping to organize a public demonstration in Berlin against German involvement in the war.
Liebknecht declared a socialist republic in Germany from a balcony of the Kaiser's Berlin City Palace in November of 1918, on the same night that Philipp Scheidemann of the SPD declared the Weimar Republic from the Reichstag.
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 rbb Preußen-Chronik | Wilhelm Liebknecht
Der einer Beamten- und Theologenfamilie entstammende Wilhelm Liebknecht wurde 1826 in Gießen geboren.
Liebknecht strebte einen großdeutschen Staat an, in dem Sozialismus und Demokratie verbunden werden sollten.
Sein Sohn war der Kriegsgegner, Kommunist und Revolutionär Karl Liebknecht.
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 Liebknecht, Wilhelm --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Liebknecht's stay in Switzerland was short, for the Austrian and Prussian governments, fearful of his growing influence among the Swiss workers, succeeded in having him expelled from Geneva.
Liebknecht, the writer, and Bebel, the orator and practical politician, complemented one another and together they provided the leadership for German socialism for the remainder of the century.
Liebknecht was killed in the Spartacus Revolt of January 1919.
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 WILHELM LIEBKNECHT - LoveToKnow Article on WILHELM LIEBKNECHT
After the lapse of the Socialist law (I89o) he became chief editorof the Vorwrts, and settled in Berlin.
Liebknecht was the author of numerous pamphlets ~and books, of which the most important were:- Robert Blum und -seine Zeit (Nuremberg, 1892); Geschichte der Franzosisdhen Revolution (Dresden, 1890); Die Enrser Depesc/te (Nuremberg, I8~o) and Robert Owen (Nuremberg, 1892); He died at Charlottenburg on the 6th of August 1900.
See Kurt Eisner, Wilhelm Liebknecht, scm Leben und Wirken (Berlin, 1900).
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 Karl Liebknecht   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Writer Christopher Hitchens continues: To be against war and militarism, in the tradition of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, is one thing.
Lecture nine: The rise of fascism in Germany and the collapse of...
Some choice excerpts: "To be against war and militarism, in the tradition of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, is one thing.
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 Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826-1900) Biographie, Lebenslauf
August 1871 bringt seine Frau Nathalie, geborene Reh, in Leipzig Sohn Karl zu Welt.
Im Deutsch-Französischen Krieg 1870/71 enthielten sich Liebknecht und Bebel in der Abstimmung über weitere Kriegskredite der Stimme, später setzten sich sich für die revolutionären Aufständischen in Paris (Pariser Kommune) ein.
1875 wirkte Wilhelm Liebknecht an der Vereinigung ADAV und SDAP zur Sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands in Gotha (Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha) mit.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Wilhelm Cuno
Cuno, Wilhelm (1876-1933), German businessman, chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923.
Cuno was born in Suhl, in the German state of Thüringen.
Liebknecht, Wilhelm (1826-1900), founder and leader of the German Social Democratic Party (SDP).
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 Wilhelm Liebknecht - netlexikon
Liebknecht studierte Philosophie und Theologie in Gießen, wo er sich dem Corps Rhenania anschloss, sowie in Marburg, wo er Mitglied der Corps Rhenania und Hasso-Nassovia wurde.
Wilhelm Liebknecht war zusammen mit August Bebel und Paul Singer einer der bedeutendsten SPD-Führer und der erste Parteivorsitzende der SPD.
Leitartikel und Beiträge in der Osnabrücker Zeitung von Wilhelm Liebknecht, Georg Eckert für EUR 24,34
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