Liebknecht

[ leep-knekht ]

noun

1. Karl [kah, r, l], 1871–1919, German socialist leader.
2. his father Wil·helm [vil, -helm], 1826–1900, German journalist and political leader.

Liebknecht

/ ˈliːpknɛçt /

noun

1. LiebknechtKarl18711919MGermanPOLITICS: socialist leaderPOLITICS: revolutionary Karl (karl). 1871–1919, German socialist leader: with Rosa Luxemburg he led an unsuccessful Communist revolt (1919) and was assassinated
2. LiebknechtWilhelm18261900MGermanPOLITICS: socialist leaderWRITING: journalist his father, Wilhelm (ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1826–1900, German socialist leader and journalist, a founder (1869) of what was to become (1891) the German Social Democratic Party

Example Sentences

This censorship only serves the interests of the militarists who, as Karl Liebknecht reminded his fellow Germans in World War I, are the enemy within.

From Salon

This is why, at the start of World War I in Germany, Karl Liebknecht called the German military, which imprisoned and later assassinated him, "the enemy from within."

From Salon

Although Liebknecht is held in high regard, it is Luxemburg who has been stealing the limelight.

From The Guardian

A recent tour took in the site of Eden, the hotel where Luxemburg and Liebknecht were brought by demobilised former soldiers, known as Freikorps to be beaten and shot.

From The Guardian

It continues to the location where Luxemburg’s body was thrown into the canal, and, a few hundred metres away, the Neuen See lake where Liebknecht was shot and killed.

From The Guardian