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Liebknecht

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Liebknecht (German) [ˈliːpknɛçt]
n
1. (Biographies / Liebknecht, Karl (1871-1919) M, German, POLITICS: socialist leader, POLITICS: revolutionary) Karl (karl). 1871-1919, German socialist leader: with Rosa Luxemburg he led an unsuccessful Communist revolt (1919) and was assassinated
2. (Biographies / Liebknecht, Wilhelm (1826-1900) M, German, POLITICS: socialist leader, WRITING: journalist, the German Social Democratic Party) his father, Wilhelm (ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1826-1900, German socialist leader and journalist, a founder (1869) of what was to become (1891) the German Social Democratic Party


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Just as Friedrich Ebert of the "moderate" Social Democrat Party was declaring a new democratic republic on November 9, 1918, Karl Liebknecht of the Independent Socialists (USPD) was poised to declare the establishment of a new socialist republic with support from the revolutionary masses.
Johann Liebknecht nicknamed this double star Ludwig's Star in 1722 in honour of his German King.
This allowed them to preserve the balcony from which, on November 9, 1918, Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the short-lived German Workers' Republic.
 
 
 
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