Leo Jogiches (1919)

Mon Mar 10, 1919

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Leon “Leo” Jogiches (1867 - 1919), also known by the party name Jan Tyszka, was a Marxist revolutionary and politician who was executed on this day in 1919 for investigating the recent murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.

Jogiches was active in both Germany and Poland, founding the political party “The Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland” in 1893 and becoming a key figure in the underground Spartacus League in Germany during World War I.

Jogiches was also a personal companion and a close political ally of Rosa Luxemburg. After Luxemburg and her political partner Karl Liebknecht were killed by the German Freikorps, Jogiches began investigating their deaths.

Jogiches was assassinated in Moabit prison on March 10th, 1919, in Berlin.