Sophie Liebknecht

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Sophie and Karl Liebknecht with their children, 1913.
Sophie and Karl Liebknecht with their children, 1913.
Tomb stone of Sophie Liebknecht
Tomb stone of Sophie Liebknecht

Sophie Liebknecht (1884 - 1964), Russian-German socialist and feminist. She was the second wife of Karl Liebknecht and they had three children together.

Originally a member of the German Social Democratic Party, she followed her husband when he founded the Communist Party of Germany in 1918. Karl Liebknecht was murdered January 15, 1919, after the failed Spartacist uprising. Sophie Liebknecht emigrated to London and in 1934 she moved to the Soviet Union and settled in Moscow where she died in 1964.

Much of her correspondence with Rosa Luxemburg has been published.

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