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Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
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GlossarySocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
- Karl Liebknecht Karl Liebknecht The lone vote against the war; the revolution's first martyr
- Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg “Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently”
- Heinrich Brandler Heinrich Brandler KPD chairman who called off a revolution; co-founder of the International Right Opposition
- Paul Levi Paul Levi From Rosa Luxemburg's lawyer to KPD leader, his 'anti-putschism' took on Comintern adventurism
- August Thalheimer August Thalheimer Main theorist of the KPD and Bonapartist analyst of fascism
- Ernst Thälmann Ernst Thälmann Hitler's personal prisoner, unbroken by eleven years in solitary
- Hermann Matern Hermann Matern SED Politburo member and chairman of the Central Party Control Commission who stood by Ulbricht in 1953
- Walter Ulbricht Walter Ulbricht German communist leader who built the GDR and erected the Berlin Wall
- Otto Grotewohl Otto Grotewohl The Social Democrat who led a divided state into being
- Friedrich Ebert Jr. Friedrich Ebert junior A social democrat who moved from municipal politics into state power amid Germany's division