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Wilhelm Liebknecht
Wilhelm Martin Philipp Christian Ludwig Liebknecht was a German social democratic politician and journalist. A principal founder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), his political career was a pioneering project in steering a Marxist-inspired workers' party to electoral success and mass membership. Liebknecht served as a member of the North German Reichstag from 1867 to 1871, and of th…
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culture · German social democratic politician (1826–1900) · politician · journalist · writer · opinion journalist · also Wilhelm Liebknecht, Wilhelm Martin Philipp Christian Ludwig Liebknecht, Liebknecht
Born 29 March 1826 · Died 7 August 1900 · Q20127
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2015· 1 entry
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1900· 1 entry
Died 1900-08-07.
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1890· 1 entry
The party was renamed the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
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1887· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Reichstag of the German Empire (1887).
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1886· 1 entry
Liebknecht embarked on an extended agitational tour of the United States with Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling to raise funds for the SAP
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1881· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Reichstag of the German Empire (1881).
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1879· 2 entries
“Freedom has been outlawed together with us ... the sacrifice of freedom will be made. Let the responsibility for this step fall upon them who are performing it.”
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Helped establish the party's clandestine organ, Der Sozialdemokrat, published in Zurich and smuggled into Germany
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1878· 1 entry
Bismarck used two assassination attempts on Kaiser Wilhelm I as a pretext to introduce the Anti-Socialist Laws, which effectively outlawed the SAP
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1874· 2 entries
Liebknecht became the principal architect of the unification
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Career landmark: member of the Reichstag of the German Empire (1874).
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1871· 1 entry
With the slogan: "For this system, not one man and not one penny
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1869· 1 entry
Liebknecht and Bebel co-founded the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP) at a congress in Eisenach
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1868· 2 entries
Successfully persuaded the organization to adopt the program of the First International
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Married his second wife, Natalie Reh, the daughter of a lawyer who had been a delegate to the Frankfurt Parliament
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1867· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation (1867).
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Ernestine died of tuberculosis in 1867; her death was exacerbated by the hardships of Liebknecht's political life, including his imprisonment in 1866–1867.
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1866· 1 entry
Career landmark: detention.
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1865· 2 entries
Career landmark: legal expulsion.
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Liebknecht was expelled from Prussia and moved to Leipzig in the Kingdom of Saxony
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1863· 1 entry
Joined the newly founded General German Workers' Association (ADAV) of Ferdinand Lassalle
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1862· 3 entries
Co-founded the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP) in 1869 with his long-time political collaborator August Bebel
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After a Prussian amnesty for political offenders of 1848, Liebknecht returned to Germany
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Career landmark: editing staff (1862).
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1859· 1 entry
Was a founder and editor of the German-language newspaper Das Volk, which served as a public organ for the London exiles and received contributions from Marx and Engels
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1826· 1 entry
Born 1826-03-29.
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