• Rosa Luxembourg was a revolutionary socialist and anti-war activist who was a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Independent Social Democratic Party, and the Communist Party of Germany. Luxembourg publicly spoke out against German militarism and imperialism, she also said that she considered the Spartacist uprising of January, 1919 to be a blunder. Due to her impactful role in promoting a world without capitalism, Rosa Luxembourg was captured in Berlin on January 15th 1919 where she was questioned under torture and then eventually shot in the head. Her body was then flung into Berlin’s Landwehr Canal.
• Friedrich Ebert (4th February, 1871 - 28th February, 1925)…show more content… The reasoning as to why he was worthy of being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was due to his negotiating and restoration of the relationship between France and Germany – he was able to do this with the help of Aristide Briand, who also received the prize alongside Stressemann. Gustav Stresseman was able to keep order in the chaotic Weimar Republic government and was therefore seen as very powerful to other politicians.
• Anton Drexler (13th June, 1884 – 24th February, 1942) worked alongside Adolf Hitler and mentored him during his early days of politics. Drexler was also known for his position as a far-right political leader in the German government during the 1920s. His anti-Semitic views aided him in the creation of the German Worker’s Party, which heavily influenced the Nazi…show more content… Bruning took to his role of Chancellor of Germany in 1930 in the midst of the Great Depression. Unfortunately, Heinrich Bruning was not able to adapt and handle this economic crisis and instead received significant backlash for his demand of salary increases, tightening of credit, and overall increase of unemployment throughout Germany. Bruning later caused uprising through his formation of his own government and later fled to various locations in Europe before settling in the US due to the ever-rising popularity of the Nazi
