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Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)

36 people

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GlossarySocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)

Wilhelm Liebknecht Wilhelm Liebknecht Co-founder of the Eisenach party and drafter of the Gotha Programme Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1826–1900
August Bebel August Bebel Co-founder of the SPD who led the German workers' movement for over 40 years, the 'shadow emperor' of the working class Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1840–1913
Franz Erdmann Mehring Franz Mehring The elder theoretician of German Marxism: historian, literary critic, and Spartacus League co-founder Scholarship and theory · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1846–1919
Eduard Bernstein Eduard Bernstein Founder of Marxist revisionism and evolutionary socialism, author of The Preconditions of Socialism Scholarship and theory · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1850–1932
Karl Johann Kautsky Karl Johann Kautsky Chief theoretician of orthodox Marxism in the Second International, founding editor of Die Neue Zeit, editor of Marx's Capital Vol. IV Scholarship and theory · Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1854–1938
Clara Zetkin Clara Zetkin Creator of International Women's Day, she set women's liberation at the heart of class struggle Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1857–1933
Carl Legien Carl Legien German trade-union leader who signed the 1918 agreement with Stinnes and met the Kapp Putsch of 1920 with a general strike Social movements and organizing · Independent activity 1861–1920
Hugo Haase Hugo Haase Lawyer who founded the USPD against the war and co-chaired the Council of People’s Deputies with Ebert in 1918 Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1863–1919
Robert Emil Eichhorn Robert Emil Eichhorn German Social Democratic and Independent Social Democratic politician who headed Berlin police in 1918 Security, intelligence and policing · Germany state institutions 1863–1925
Kurt Eisner Kurt Eisner Journalist who overthrew the Bavarian monarchy in Munich in November 1918, proclaimed the People’s State and was assassinated the next year Social movements and organizing · Germany state institutions 1867–1919
Alexander Lvovich Parvus Александр Львович Парвус Co-author of permanent revolution who arranged Lenin's sealed train: the 'merchant of revolution' Scholarship and theory · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1867–1924
Gustav Bauer Gustav Bauer Social Democratic chancellor whose government accepted the Treaty of Versailles under an Allied ultimatum Political and party leadership · Germany state institutions 1870–1944
Karl Liebknecht Karl Liebknecht The lone vote against the war; the revolution's first martyr Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1871–1919
Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg “Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently” Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1871–1919
Friedrich Ebert Friedrich Ebert SPD leader who headed the revolutionary government of 1918, steered the councils into parliamentary democracy and became the first president Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1871–1925
Anton Pannekoek Anton Pannekoek The astrophysicist who mapped the Milky Way, and the council communist Lenin attacked in 'Left-Wing Communism' Science and technology · Netherlands state institutions 1873–1960
Arthur Crispien Arthur Crispien German social-democratic politician and co-chair of the Independent Social Democratic Party. Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1875–1946
Hermann Müller Hermann Müller A Social Democratic politician of the Weimar Republic who served twice as chancellor. Government and administration · Germany state institutions 1876–1931
Wilhelm Pieck Wilhelm Pieck From the Spartacus League to GDR head of state, the sole founding member who lived the full arc of German communism Political and party leadership · East Germany state institutions 1876–1960
Heinrich Brandler Heinrich Brandler KPD chairman who called off a revolution; co-founder of the International Right Opposition Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1881–1967
Paul Levi Paul Levi From Rosa Luxemburg's lawyer to KPD leader, his 'anti-putschism' took on Comintern adventurism Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1883–1930
August Thalheimer August Thalheimer Main theorist of the KPD and Bonapartist analyst of fascism Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany Opposition (KPO) 1884–1948
Karl Berngardovich Radek Karol Radek The polemicist who survived trial only to die in prison Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1885–1939
Ernst Thälmann Ernst Thälmann Hitler's personal prisoner, unbroken by eleven years in solitary Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1886–1944
Hugo Eberlein Hugo Eberlein German Communist who abstained on the Comintern’s founding at its first congress and was later shot in the Great Purge Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1887–1941
Ernst Reuter Ernst Reuter The social democrat who became the voice of divided Berlin Government and administration · Germany state institutions 1889–1953
Max Fechner Max Fechner First East German justice minister, dismissed and imprisoned in 1953 after opposing the prosecution of striking workers Law and justice · East Germany state institutions 1892–1973
Hermann Matern Hermann Matern SED Politburo member and chairman of the Central Party Control Commission who stood by Ulbricht in 1953 Political and party leadership · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1893–1971
Walter Ulbricht Walter Ulbricht German communist leader who built the GDR and erected the Berlin Wall Political and party leadership · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1893–1973
Otto Grotewohl Otto Grotewohl The Social Democrat who led a divided state into being Government and administration · East Germany state institutions 1894–1964
Friedrich Ebert Jr. Friedrich Ebert junior A social democrat who moved from municipal politics into state power amid Germany's division Political and party leadership · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1894–1979
Kurt Schumacher Kurt Schumacher SPD leader who survived ten years in Nazi camps and, after the war, refused the merger with the Communists Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1895–1952
Erich Gniffke Erich Gniffke SPD organiser in the Soviet zone who signed the merger with the KPD, then left the SED in 1948 and fled west Social movements and organizing · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1895–1964
Herbert Marcuse Herbert Marcuse Frankfurt School philosopher and the pre-eminent theorist of the 1960s New Left Scholarship and theory · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1898–1979
Erich Ollenhauer Erich Ollenhauer Exiled SPD functionary who succeeded Schumacher as SPD leader and leader of the West German opposition Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1901–1963
Willy None Brandt Willy Brandt A social democrat who made reconciliation a politics of divided cities Government and administration · Germany state institutions 1913–1992