Luise Kautsky
{{Short description|German politician (1864–1944)}}
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File:E. Klar. Kautsky in Georgia 1920.jpg
Luise Kautsky (née Ronsperger, 11 August 1864 – 8 December 1944) was a German politician and member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (UPSD).
Life and career
Kautsky was a socialist and active social democrat. She married the prominent Marxist theorist Karl Kautsky.{{cite book|last1=Hahn|first1=Barbara|title=The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity|date=2005|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, N.J.|isbn=978-0-691-11614-3|page=110|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-8Ek2aH76aQC&q=Luise+Kautsky&pg=PA110}} She was also a friend of Rosa Luxemburg and Berlin city councilor for the USPD.
In 1938, because she was Jewish, she had to flee to Prague and then the Netherlands. In 1944, she was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz, where she died "from heart failure" (an official Nazi formula for everyone who died in Auschwitz).
The S-bahn arch between Kantstraße and Fasanenstraße in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is named after her. In 1999, Charlottenburg district council resolved to erect a plaque in her memory at Wielandstraße 26.
Notes
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External links
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- [https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/kautsky-luise/index.htm Luise Kautsky Archive] at marxists.org
- [https://archive.org/details/lettersofrosalux0000unse/page/n11/mode/2up Rosa Luxemburg: Letters to Karl and Luise Kautsky from 1896 to 1918] (edited by Luise Kautsky), 1922
- [http://www.stolpersteine-berlin.de/en/biografie/4465 Stolperstein memorial stones project]
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Category:Jewish German politicians
Category:German people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
Category:20th-century German women politicians