Liebknecht
Americannoun
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Karl 1871–1919, German socialist leader.
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his father Wilhelm 1826–1900, German journalist and political leader.
noun
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Karl (karl). 1871–1919, German socialist leader: with Rosa Luxemburg he led an unsuccessful Communist revolt (1919) and was assassinated
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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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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
Only a hundred miles away was Berlin, where Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht were working to merge their Spartakusbund with the splinter Socialists to form the German Communist Party.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet this is not fair to a very small group of German minority socialists, who stood by Liebknecht and by whom Liebknecht stood.
From The Future Belongs to the People by Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht
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