Rosa Luxemburg
Activist
Socialist revolutionary and Marxist theorist who co-founded the group that grew into the German Communist Party.
She attended Zürich University and went on to establish a newspaper called Sprawa Robotnicza (The Workers' Cause).
She was murdered during the German Revolution as a result of her radical political activism.
She was born to Jewish parents living in Russia- controlled Poland.
She critiqued Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's version of socialism.