Leo Jogiches
| Leo Jogiches | |
|---|---|
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| Born | June 17, 1867 Vilnius, Vilna Governorate, Northwestern Krai, Russian Empire |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Berlin, Germany |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Ethnicity | Jewish[1] |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Known for | Marxist revolutionary |
Leo(n) Jogiches (17 June 1867 – 10 March 1919),[2] also known by his party name of Leon Tyszka (Tyska, Tyshko, Tyshka) was a Marxist revolutionary active in Lithuania, Poland, and Germany.
Biography
Jogiches was a contemporary in Vilnius, his birthplace, of Felix Dzerzhinsky and Arkadi Kemer. Little is known of Jogiches' early years. He joined a revolutionary circle and became a leader by 1885 before getting arrested in 1888 and 1889.[2] In 1893 he helped form the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland (SDKP, later SDKPiL) along with Rosa Luxemburg. Jogiches and Luxemburg fell in love with each other, a love that lasted their whole lives despite the difficulties.[3] The work of the two cannot be separated in the least, although a clear division of labour is observable, with Jogiches the organiser and Luxemburg the theorist.
Jogiches was a founding member of the Spartacus League, a revolutionary left-wing organization of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, formed at the beginning of World War I by Karl Liebknecht, Luxemburg, Franz Mehring and others. On 1 January 1919 the League became the Communist Party of Germany.
The Spartacus League led the German communist revolution of 1918/1919, which failed, after which Luxemburg and Liebknecht were murdered by government troops. Jogiches was murdered in Berlin while trying to investigate the assassination of Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.
See also
References
External links
- New Crime of the German "Social-Democratic Government" a speech by Zinoviev after the death of Jogiches.
- Works by or about Leo Jogiches in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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