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Leon "Leo" Jogiches (Russian: Лев "Лео" Йогихес; 17 July 1867 – 10 March 1919), also commonly known by the party name Jan Tyszka, was a Polish Marxist revolutionary and politician, active in Poland, Lithuania, and Germany.
Jul 15, 2022 · Leo Jogiches, one of Rosa Luxemburg's closest collaborators, was also murdered by the police. Historian Nathaniel Flakin argues he deserves a plaque at his house in Neukölln.
Leo Jogiches, three years older than Rosa, was, when he fled to Zurich in 1890, already a fully formed conspirator and revolutionary. Almost immediately, they became linked by a lifelong personal intimacy (without benefit of religious or civil ceremony) and by a lifelong association in the Polish and Russian, and later in the German, movements.
In January 1919, she was brutally murdered in Berlin by right-wing thugs; the recipient of these letters, Leo Jogiches, met death at the same hands not long afterward. The correspondence in this fascinating little book, superbly translated and very helpfully edited by Elzbieta Ettinger, covers only the years 1893 to 1914; it is sufficient ...
Leo Jogiches, auch Tyszka, war ein russischer sozialistischer Politiker und Mitbegründer der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands.
Leo Jogiches was from Lithuania and championed a social revolution early on. He fled to Switzerland when the czar’s secret police started chasing him down. During World War I, he lived underground and during the November Revolution, he helped found the KPD.
The following is a translation from the German by Mike Jones, first published in New Interventions Volume 9, no 2, of a letter smuggled out of the Berlin Moabit remand prison from Leo Jogiches to Sophie Liebknecht dated 7 September 1918.
