Liebknecht

American  

[leep-knekht] / ˈlip knɛxt /

noun

1. Karl 1871–1919, German socialist leader.

2. his father Wilhelm 1826–1900, German journalist and political leader.

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Liebknecht British  

/ ˈliːpknɛçt /

noun

1. Karl (karl). 1871–1919, German socialist leader: with Rosa Luxemburg he led an unsuccessful Communist revolt (1919) and was assassinated

2. his father, Wilhelm (ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1826–1900, German socialist leader and journalist, a founder (1869) of what was to become (1891) the German Social Democratic Party

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Example Sentences

In a sad coincidence resonating sadly with the death of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were also murdered on a January day in 1919.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2024

This is why, at the start of World War I in Germany, Karl Liebknecht called the German military, which imprisoned and later assassinated him, "the enemy from within."

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2021

In the Spartacist Uprising of Berlin 1919, an initially small fracas expanded dramatically when political leaders, including Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, prodded their allies to turn out en masse.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2011

In Berlin, history in the peculiar form of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and Wilhelm Pieck, now a member of Moscow's Free Germany Committee, had begun the Spartacus revolt against the Weimar Republic.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to the Vorwärts reports, when Liebknecht began to speak the Free Conservatives, most of the National Liberals and the Centrum left the chamber in a demonstrative manner.

From The Future Belongs to the People by Liebknecht, Karl Paul August Friedrich