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German communists

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Käthe Kollwitz
German printmaker and sculptor (1867–1945)
Egon Krenz
German politician, communist leader of East Germany
Moses Hess
German philosopher (1812–1875)
Andreas Baader
German far-left militant leader (1943–1977)
Markus Wolf
Head of the East German foreign intelligence service during the Cold War (1923–2006)
Kurt Eisner
German politician and journalist (1867-1919)
Hanns Eisler
Austrian and German composer (1898–1962)
Wilhelm Weitling
German-American socialist (1808–1871)
Gudrun Ensslin
German far-left militant (1940–1977)
Silvio Gesell
German-Argentine economist (1862–1930)
Philipp Mainländer
German poet and philosopher (1841–1876)
Laura Marx
daughter of Karl Marx (1845–1911)
Herbert Wehner
German politician (KPD, SPD) (1906-1990)
Margarete Buber-Neumann
German writer (1909-1989)
Irmtraud Morgner
German writer (1933–1990)
Monika Ertl
revolutionary (1937-1973)
Olga Benário Prestes
German-Brazilian Communist militant (1908-1942)
Sophie Liebknecht
German politician
Joseph Weydemeyer
US Union Army officer (1818–1866)
Henryk Grossman
Polish-German academic and revolutionary (1881-1950)
Friedrich Sorge
American communist (1828-1906)
Alfred Sohn-Rethel
Marxist economist and philosopher (1899-1990)
Max Beer
German academic (1864-1943)
Wilhelm Wolff
German politician (1809-1864)
Fritz Houtermans
physicist (1903-1966)
Carl Schorlemmer
German chemist (1834-1892)
Rudolf Bahro
German politician and writer (1935-1997)
August Willich
Union Army General (1810-1878)
Karl-Heinz Kurras
German police officer (1927–2014)
Richard Peter
German photographer (1895-1977)
Herbert Baum
German resistance fighter (1912-1942)
Steffie Spira
German actress (1908–1995)
Günther Krupkat
German science fiction author (1905–1990)
Johann Eccarius
trade unionist (1818–1889)
Stephen Born
German trade unionist and politician (1824–1898)
Karl Schapper
German activist (1812–1870)
Michael Heinrich
German political scientist (1957-)
Wolf Kaiser
German actor (1916–1992)
Felix Hollaender
German writer (1867–1931)
Samuel Mitja Rapoport
American biochemist (1912–2004)
Adolf Cluss
German-born American architect
Hans-Jürgen Krahl
German activist (1943–1970)
John Rittmeister
German psychiatrist (1898–1943)
Paul Eltzbacher
German lawyer (1868-1928)
Fritz Anneke
German-American political activist, Union Army Civil War colonel, journalist
Georg Ewald
German politician, East Germany (1926-1973)
Theodor Bergmann
German author (1916–2017)
Werner Felfe
German politician (East Germany)
Friedrich Leßner
German politician and socialist (1825-1910)
Alexander Schimmelfennig
Officer of the Prussian Army, Partaker in the German Revolution 1848/1849, Union Army general
Gerhard Grüneberg
German politician (1921-1981)
Albert Kuntz
German politician (1896–1945)
Franz Ehrlich
German architect (1907–1984)
Otto Buchwitz
German politician (1879-1964)
Ivana Hoffmann
German communist
Ernest Borneman
(1915-1995) German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, psychoanalyst, sexologist, communist agitator, jazz musician and critic
Carl Pfänder
German revolutionary (1819–1876)
Elise Saborovsky Ewert
German politician (1907–1940)
Günter Sieber
German politician (1930-2006)
Rudolf Klement
German politician (1908-1938)