Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg

female, deceased (1919)
Rosa Luxemburg was a Jewish Polish-born Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary. She was a theorist of the Social...
Karl Liebknecht

Karl Liebknecht

male, deceased (1919)
Karl Liebknecht (August 13, 1871 - January 15, 1919) was a German socialist and a co-founder of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of...
Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin

female, deceased (1933)
Clara Zetkin, maiden name Eissner (5 July 1857 - 20 June 1933) was an influential socialist German politician and a fighter for women's rights....

Ernst Thälmann

male, deceased (1944)
Ernst Thälmann was the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 a...
Paul Levi

Paul Levi

male, deceased (1930)
Paul Levi was a German Communist politician. Paul Levi, born in Hechingen into a Jewish middle-class family joined the Social Democratic Party of...
Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler

male, deceased (1983)
Arthur Koestler (September 5, 1905, Budapest - March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. He wrote...
Karl Radek

Karl Radek

male, deceased (1939)
Karl Berngardovich Radek was a Bolshevik and an international Communist leader. He was born in then Lemberg (now L'viv in Ukraine, then in...
Otto Grotewohl

Otto Grotewohl

male, deceased (1964)
Otto Grotewohl (March 11, 1894 - September 21 1964) was an East German politician. Grotewohl was born in Braunschweig. A leader of the Social...
Leo Jogiches

Leo Jogiches

male, deceased (1919)
Leo Jogiches, also known by his party name Tyska or Tyshko (was born 17 July 1867 in the multi national city of Vilnius and died 10 March 1919 in...
Robert Havemann

Robert Havemann

male, deceased (1982)
Robert Havemann was a chemist, communist and an East German dissident. He studied chemistry in Berlin and Munich from 1929 to 1933, and then later...