Die Rote Fahne

Die Rote Fahne header from 23 November 1918
TypeDaily newspaper
Founder(s)Wilhelm Hasselmann, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Paul Frölich
Founded1876; 148 years ago (1876)
Political alignmentCommunist
LanguageGerman
CountryGermany

Die Rote Fahne (German: [diː ˈʁoːtə ˈfaːnə], The Red Flag) was a German newspaper originally founded in 1876 by Socialist Worker's Party leader Wilhelm Hasselmann,[1] and which has been since published on and off, at times underground,[2] by German Socialists and Communists. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg famously published it in 1918[3] as organ of the Spartacus League.[4]

Following the deaths of Liebknecht and Luxemburg during the chancellorship of the Social Democratic Party of Germany's Friedrich Ebert,[5][6] the newspaper was published, with interruptions, by the Communist Party of Germany.[7][8] Proscribed by the National Socialist Worker's Party government of Adolf Hitler after 1933,[9] publication continued illegally, underground.[10]

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  2. ^ Marrus, Michael Robert (2011-08-02). The Nazi Holocaust. Part 5: Public Opinion and Relations to the Jews in Nazi Europe. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110970449.
  3. ^ To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921. BRILL. 2015-02-13. ISBN 9789004288034.
  4. ^ Weitz, Eric D. (1997). Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. Princeton University Press. pp. 91–92. ISBN 0691026823.
  5. ^ Habbe, Christian (2009-01-09). "Luxemburg und Liebknecht: Dauerfehde um einen Doppelmord". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  6. ^ Kellerhoff, Sven Felix (2019-01-14). "Märtyrer der KPD: So starben Karl Liebknecht und Rosa Luxemburg". Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  7. ^ Sewell, Rob (2018-11-12). Germany 1918-1933: Socialism or Barbarism. Wellred Books. ISBN 9781900007986.
  8. ^ Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Zeitungsabteilung. "Zeitungsinformationssystem ZEFYS - Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin". zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  9. ^ "Münchner Rote Fahne, 1919 – Historisches Lexikon Bayerns". www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  10. ^ Marotta, Alina. "Ein Tanz auf Messersschneide- Kommunistische Tätigkeiten vom Ende der Weimarer Republik bin in die frühe Bundesrepublik anhand ausgewählter Karlsruher Beispiele" (PDF). ns-ministerien-bw.de. Retrieved 27 June 2019.