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Karl Marx Karl Marx Author of Capital and leader of the First International Scholarship and theory 1818–1883
Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels Marx's co-author and patron; author of Socialism: Utopian and Scientific Scholarship and theory 1820–1895
Ferdinand Lassalle Ferdinand Lassalle Founder of the ADAV, Germany's first workers' party Scholarship and theory 1825–1864
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
Alfred von Tirpitz Alfred von Tirpitz German admiral who built the High Seas Fleet to rival the Royal Navy, set off a naval arms race and urged unrestricted U-boat war Military command · Germany state institutions 1849–1930
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
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