Liebknecht, Karl

*		1871
†		1919

Beruf
German socialist and attorney

Überblick

	1900 joins the SPD
	1902-1913 city councillor in Berlin
	founder of the socialist youth movement of the SPD
	1907 imprisonment due to anti-militaristic propaganda
	1908-1916 for the SPD in the Prussian house of representatives
	1912-1916 in the Reichstag
	1915 co-founder of the illegal Group International; induction into armoured division service
	1916 exclusion from the SPD faction; founder of the Spartacus League
	9 Nov. 1918 proclamation of the “Socialist Republic” in Germany
	co-founder of the KPD
	murdered in Berlin along with Rosa Luxemburg after January Uprising