Van wie was Rosa Luxemburg?

Rosa Luxemburg (Zamość, 5 maart 1871 - Berlijn, 15 januari 1919) was een Duitse marxistische politica, filosofe en revolutionaire. Ze werd geboren als Rozalia Luxenburg in een Pools-Joods middenklassengezin, in Weichselland ofwel Russisch Polen. Haar latere achternaam Luxemburg is waarschijnlijk terug te voeren op een schrijffout bij de burgerlijke stand.

Leon "Leo" Jogiches (Russian: Лев "Лео" Йогихес; 17 July 1867 – 10 March 1919), also commonly known by the party name Jan Tyszka, was a Polish Marxist revolutionary and politician, active in Poland, Lithuania, and Germany.

Jogiches was a founder of the political party known as the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (main forerunner of the Communist Party of Poland) in 1893 and a key figure in the underground Spartacus League in Germany, the predecessor of the Communist Party of Germany, during the years of World War I.

For many years the personal companion and a close political ally of internationally famous revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, Jogiches was assassinated in Berlin by right-wing paramilitary forces in March 1919 while investigating Luxemburg's and Liebknecht's murder some weeks before.