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By birth A–Z List Cards

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
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
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
Ernst Friedrich Däumig Ernst Friedrich Däumig German socialist and a leading figure in the workers’ council movement. Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1866–1922
Leo Jogiches Leo Jogiches The revolution's underground organizer, always behind the scenes, until he had to lead Political and party leadership · Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1867–1919
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
Richard Müller Richard Müller Lathe operator who led Berlin’s Revolutionary Stewards, chaired the council Executive in 1918 and later wrote the revolution’s history Social movements and organizing 1880–1943
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
Eugen Leviné Eugen Leviné Communist who led the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919 and was shot after its fall Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1883–1919
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
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
Willi Münzenberg Willi Münzenberg The 'Red Millionaire' who exposed Nazi terror through publishing, the Comintern's greatest propagandist, who broke with Stalin Ideology and propaganda · Comintern 1889–1940
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
Ruth Fischer Ruth Fischer First woman to lead a major European communist party, and its sharpest anti-Stalinist apostate Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1895–1961
Otto Braun Otto Braun “Li De”, the only Westerner on the Long March and the Comintern military adviser blamed at Zunyi Military command · Comintern 1900–1974
Erich Honecker Erich Honecker The long-serving East German leader of the walled republic Political and party leadership · East Germany 1912–1994
Helmut Gröttrup Helmut Gröttrup From Peenemünde to Gorodomlya, the German rocket engineer who designed the conceptual ancestor of the R-7 Science and technology · Soviet Union 1916–1981
Wolfgang Leonhard Wolfgang Leonhard Youngest member of the Ulbricht Group who fled to Yugoslavia in 1949 and became a leading Western scholar of Soviet communism Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1921–2014