Luxemburg, Rosa

*		1871
†		1919

Beruf
German politician and socialist theoretican

Überblick

	1889 escape to Zurich, studies political economy
	1893 founding of social democracy in the Kingdom of Poland
	since 1897 in Germany, acquisition of German citizenship by means of a pseudo-marriage
	since 1899 struggle against revisionism in the SPD
	1903 efforts for a general political strike
	1905/6 involvement in the first Russian revolution
	1915 imprisonment because of opposition to the war
	1916 co-founder of the Spartacus League
	imprisonment again following demonstrations on Potsdam Plaza; release after outbreak of the revolution in Germany
	agitation with Karl Liebknecht against the German National Assembly
	founding member of the KPD
	after 1919 January uprising, murdered in Berlin along with Liebknecht by Mounted Guards