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Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht was a German socialist politician and revolutionary. A leader of the far-left wing of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Liebknecht was a co-founder of both the Spartacus League and Communist Party of Germany (KPD) along with Rosa Luxemburg.
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Born 13 August 1871 · Died 15 January 1919 · Q75886
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The district council of Berlin's Mitte district advocated for the pedestal's reinstallation as a document of the city's history and of how Germany's socialist and anti-militarist traditions were dealt with
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Pabst commented on the background to the murders in a private letter: "The fact is: the execution of my orders unfortunately did not take place as it should have
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Liebknecht and Luxemburg were honoured with symbolic graves at the Memorial to the Socialists (German: Gedenkstätte der Sozialisten) in the Friedrichsfelde Cemetery
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The Counterintelligence Corps searched von Ritgen's home after his father-in-law reported him for his alleged involvement in the murder of Walther Rathenau
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Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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The November Revolution Monument was dedicated at the gravesite of the militants in the Friedrichsfelde Cemetery
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Was killed in an explosion after grenades in his car accidentally detonated
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Died 1919-01-15.
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Liebknecht was released from prison on 23 October 1918 as part of a general amnesty that the Reich government hoped would act as a relief valve for the pre-revolutionary mood in the country
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The Spartacus League joined the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD)
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Noted:"The defection of the majority of the parliamentary group came as a surprise even to the pessimists; the atomization of the hitherto predominant radical wing no less so
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And again imprisoned for leading an anti-war demonstration
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Career landmark: member of the Reichstag of the German Empire (1912–1916).
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Liebknecht became a member of the Prussian House of Representatives even though he had not yet been released from prison in Silesia
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Was imprisoned a year for writing an anti-militarism pamphlet, and in 1912 was elected to the Reichstag
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Published Militarism and Anti-Militarism as part of the SPD Youth
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And 1907, he won the "imperial constituency" of Potsdam-Spandau-Osthavelland, which until then had been the safe domain of the German Conservative Party
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And in 1904, along with his colleague Hugo Haase, he became known abroad as a political lawyer when he defended nine Social Democrats, among them the Pole Franciszek Trąbalski, in the Königsberg Secret Society trial
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Graduated from the Alte Nikolaischule in Leipzig and on 16 August 1890 began studying law and administrative cameral sciences at Leipzig University
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Studied at Frederick William University Berlin (1890).
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Studied at Leipzig University (1890).
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Born 1871-08-13.
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The second of the five sons of Wilhelm Liebknecht and his second wife Natalie (née Reh)
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