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Luxemburg, c. 1895–1905 (Source: Wikimedia)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosa_Luxemburg.jpg

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Luxenburg, Rozalia Real Name
March 5, 1871 in Zamość
†

January 15, 1919 in Berlin
Politikerin

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Luxemburg, c. 1895–1905 (Source: Wikimedia)

Luxemburg's birthplace in Zamość, Poland (Source: Wikimedia)

Portrait of Rosa Luxemburg at age 12, c. 1883 (Source: Wikimedia)

Inaugural dissertation for the award of a doctorate in political science from the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zurich. In the collection of the Jewish Museum Switzerland. (Source: Wikimedia)

Luxemburg c. 1895–1900 (Source: Wikimedia)

Luxemburg in 1915 (Source: Wikimedia)

Barricade during the Spartacist uprising (Source: Wikimedia)

Luxemburg (fourth from left against bookcase) among attendees at the SPD party school in 1907 (Source: Wikimedia)

Luxemburg at home with a book, 1907 (Source: Wikimedia)

Luxemburg addressing a crowd in 1907 (Source: Wikimedia)

Róża Luksemburg Electric Lamp Manufacturing Plant, Warsaw, 1970s (Source: Wikimedia)

A statue of Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin (Source: Wikimedia)

A memorial to the Spartacist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, commissioned by Eduard Fuchs, leader of the Communist Party of Germany designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, built by Wilhelm Pieck, and inaugurated on 13 June 1926, later destroyed by the Nazis (Source: Wikimedia)

German student movement in 1968 (Source: Wikimedia)

Rosa Luxemburg memorial at the site where her corpse was thrown into the Landwehr Canal in Berlin (Source: Wikimedia)

A scene from the 2016 Liebknecht-Luxemburg Demonstration in Berlin, held each year in January to honour the murdered communists (Source: Wikimedia)

Stencil graffiti of Rosa Luxemburg on a portion of the Berlin Wall on display in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin whose title reads "I am a terrorist" (Source: Wikimedia)

Portrait at Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße (Source: Wikimedia)

1919 photo of the graves of Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht (Source: Wikimedia)

Grave of Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin (Source: Wikimedia)

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Hans Werner Henze's network of artists. Digital letter edition, https://henze-digital.zenmem.de/A0000534 (Version 6.0.1 of October 30, 2024)
Last change of this document on October 28, 2024

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