Karl Liebknecht
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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, Liebknecht was a co-founder of both
Liebknecht in the 1910s
Hugo Haase in 1905
Liebknecht c. 1911
Sophie and Karl Liebknecht with the children from his first marriage
The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution, brought down the German Empire at the end of World War I and set the stage for the establishment of the Weimar Republic. The
Karl Liebknecht
…anti-war demonstration. In 1917, the Spartacus League joined the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD). Liebknecht was released shortly before the November Revolution, during which he proclaimed Germany a "Free Socialist Republic" from the Berlin Palace on 9 November 1918. In December, his call to make Germany a…
Proclamation of the republic by Philipp Scheidemann at the Reichstag building in Berlin, 9 November 1918
Erich Ludendorff in 1918. His calculated shifting of responsibility for the war's loss from the army to the civilian government gave rise to the stab-in-the-back myth.
Kiel mutiny: the soldiers' council of the battleship Prinzregent Luitpold. The sign reads in part "Long live the socialist republic."
Proclamation of the Bremen Soviet Republic outside the city hall on 15 November 1918