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Clara Zetkin
Clara Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights.
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culture · German politician (1857–1933) · politician · journalist · women's rights activist · peace activist · suffragette · editor · teacher · writer · feminist · also Clara Zetkin, Clara Eißner, Clara Josephine Eißner, Zetkin
Born 5 July 1857 · Died 20 June 1933 · Q75823
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2026· 1 entry
2014· 2 entries
The Forward: Clara Zetkin and International Women’s Day
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SocialistWorker: Clara Zetkin, socialism and women’s liberation
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1994· 1 entry
Christian Democrat Chancellor Helmut Kohl, argued against continuing to name a street near the Reichstag in Berlin after Zetkin because he regarded her as a leading representative of an anti-constitutional movement which
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1967· 1 entry
A statue of Clara Zetkin, sculpted by GDR artist Walter Arnold, was erected in Johannapark, Leipzig in commemoration of her 110th birthday
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1955· 1 entry
The city council of Leipzig established a new recreation area near the city center called "Clara-Zetkin-Park"
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1954· 1 entry
The GDR established the Clara Zetkin Medal (Clara-Zetkin-Medaille)
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1933· 4 entries
Died 1933-06-20.
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“Where there’s a will there’s a way. We have the will to world revolution, therefore we must find the way to reach the masses of the exploited and the enslaved women, whether the historical conditions make it easy or difficult.”
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“[About Rosa Luxemburg] Rarely was heard on her lips the phrase, “I cannot”; more frequently were heard the words, “I must.”
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The Reichstag fire gave the Nazi government opportunity to outright ban the KPD and other dissenting political parties
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1928· 1 entry
To get communist trade unions in Germany to split from the main socialist-dominated federation and form the rival Rote Gewerkschaftsbund
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1921· 1 entry
Clara Zetkin began to write for the communist periodical, Die Kommunistische Fraueninternationale
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1920· 1 entry
When she conducted and recorded interviews with him
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1916· 2 entries
Taken into "protective custody" from which she was later released on account of illness
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Zetkin was one of the co-founders of the Spartacist League and the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) which had split off in 1917 from its mother party, the SPD, in protest at its pro-war stance
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1907· 1 entry
Became the leader of the newly founded "Women's Office" at the SPD
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1892· 1 entry
When she started editing and writing for the SDP women's newspaper, Die Gleichheit, which translates to Equality
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1890· 1 entry
Its name was changed to its modern version Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
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1878· 2 entries
Joined the Socialist Workers' Party (Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei, SAP)
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Zetkin left for Zürich in 1882 and then went into exile in Paris, where she studied to be a journalist and a translator
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1875· 1 entry
By merging two previous parties: the ADAV formed by Ferdinand Lassalle and the SDAP of August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht
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1872· 1 entry
Her family moved to Leipzig, where she was educated at the Leipzig Teachers' College for Women
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1857· 1 entry
Born 1857-07-05.
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