Spartacist Collection

Berlin street battles
3785470 Berlin street battles; (add.info.: Berlin street battles - anti- Sparaicist forces at the police head quarters (Polizei- Prasidium)

Street battles in Berlin
3785469 Street battles in Berlin; (add.info.: Street battles in Berlin, Germany - during General Strike of German Revolution (November Revolution) of November 1918 - August 1919

Berlin street battles, March 1919
3785458 Berlin street battles, March 1919; (add.info.: Berlin street battles, March 1919. Troops in front of Tietz department store)

German Revolution (November Revolution)
3785463 German Revolution (November Revolution); (add.info.: German Revolution (November Revolution), 9 November 1918. Soldiers at the entrance to the Reichstag

Street battles in Berlin, Germany
3785471 Street battles in Berlin, Germany; (add.info.: Street battles in Berlin, Germany - during General Strike of German Revolution (November Revolution) of November 1918 - August 1919

The Declaration of a Republic in Berlin, 9 November 1918
3785512 The Declaration of a Republic in Berlin, 9 November 1918; (add.info.: The Declaration of a Republic in Berlin, 9 November 1918)

Street battles in Berlin
3785455 Street battles in Berlin; (add.info.: Street battles in Berlin - Spartacists behind a paper roll barricade. During Spartacist Uprising of German Revolution (November Revolution)

Street battles in Berlin
3785457 Street battles in Berlin; (add.info.: Street battles in Berlin - Spartacists behind a two - way barricade. During Spartacist Uprising of German Revolution (November Revolution)

Berlin Battle between Spartacists and Government troops: Barricade in the Potsdamer Platz
STC359589 Berlin Battle between Spartacists and Government troops: Barricade in the Potsdamer Platz, 1919 (b/w photo) by German Photographer (20th Century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Government troops who had seized a Spartacist trench in the Frankfurter Allee, Berlin
STC359590 Government troops who had seized a Spartacist trench in the Frankfurter Allee, Berlin, 1914-19 (b/w photo) by German Photographer (20th Century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Fighting on the Home Front, 1919 (b / w photo)
STC359591 Fighting on the Home Front, 1919 (b/w photo) by German Photographer (20th Century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Spartacist Poster / 1919
Vote Spartacist A poster demonstrating how the Spartacists, radical German communists who staged an abortive uprising in 1919, would destroy the old order

Spartacist Troops / 1919
Armed workers on their way to occupy the newspaper district, Berlin. This was part of the failed Spartacist uprising

Revolutionary Scenes
1919: The damaged entrance to the Royal Palace in Berlin, after the Spartacist uprising which broke out following Germanys defeat in World War I. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

CAPTURED COMMUNISTS, 1921. Reichswehr troops and German security police with captured Communist party leaders in the market square of Eisleben, Germany, following a street battle, March 1921

COMMUNIST UPRISING, 1921. Manor house destroyed by Communist militants in Hebra, Germany, March 1921

WORLD WAR I: REVOLUTION. Government troops holding a position behind a barricade awaiting attack by Spartacans in Berlin, Germany. Photograph, c1919

WORLD WAR I: BARRICADE. Members of the Spartacus League barricading themselves with newspapers obtained from the Vorwarts Building, Berlin, Germany. Photograph, c1919

WORLD WAR I: BERLIN, c1919. Field guns brought into fight against the Spartacus League, who had barricaded themselves in buildings immune to ordinary gun fire, Berlin, Germany. Photograph, c1919

WORLD WAR I: SPARTACISTS. Followers of Karl Liebknecht carrying machine guns obtained from seized arsenals in Berlin, Germany. Photograph c1919

WORLD WAR I: REVOLUTION. The destroyed Vorwaerts Newspaper plant, which had acted as a fortress for the Spartacus League in Berlin, Germany. Photograph, c1919

WORLD WAR I: REVOLUTION. Government troops on the roof of a building being targeted by the Spartacus League with bombs and gunfire in Berlin, Germany. Photograph, c1919

WORLD WAR I: BERLIN, C1919. Soldiers of the Ebert government searching a suspected member of the Spartacus League for illegal weapons in Berlin, Germany. Photograph, c1919

WORLD WAR I: BERLIN. The storming of Police Headquarters to oust the supporters of Police Chief Emil Eichhorn in Berlin, Germany. Illustration, 1919

KARL LIEBKNECHT (1871-1919). German lawyer and politician. Photographed c1915

WILHELM LIEBKNECHT (1826-1900). German journalist and politician. Photographed in Leipzig, c1890

Right wing ex-soldiers at a street barricade during the 1919 Spartacist uprising

Spartacist uprising of 1918 - 1919
German street protesters gather during the Spartacist uprising of 1918 - 1919

Karl Liebknecht, German socialist and communist
Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919), German socialist and co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of the Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany. Seen here (right) with an unidentified man

Freikorps Set up Mortars
The Freikorps set up mortars in Berlins Alexanderplatz. These right wing units were used in 1919 to suppress the Communist Spartacist uprisings

Vorwaerts Buildings
The Vorwaerts building after the fighting in the Newspaper District during the Spartacist Uprising

Spartacists / Berlin 1919
Spartacists defend the newspaper quarter of Berlin against the government troops during the Spartacist (communist) uprising

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"Street Battles in Berlin: The Rise and Fall of the Spartacist Movement" In the tumultuous years following World War I, Berlin became a battleground for conflicting ideologies. Street battles erupted as the Spartacists, a radical socialist group led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, clashed with government troops. On November 9th, 1918, amidst this chaos, Philipp Scheidemann addressed the Reichstag to announce the creation of a new German republic. However, his words did little to quell the revolutionary fervor that gripped the city. The Spartacists organized themselves into revolutionary troops and engaged in rifle drills to prepare for their fight against authority. Their determination was captured in an evocative photograph from Deutsche Gedenkhalle: Das Neue Deutschland compiled by General Von Eisenhart Rothe. The battle between Spartacists and government troops raged on throughout Berlin's streets. Potsdamer Platz became a scene of barricades and fierce resistance. In another image from Frankfurter Allee, we see government troops triumphantly seizing a trench previously held by Spartacists. Fighting on the home front intensified in 1919 as tensions escalated. A black-and-white photo captures this turbulent period where ordinary citizens found themselves caught up in violent clashes between opposing factions. Rosa Luxemburg herself is immortalized in an old photograph standing defiantly on a balcony during more peaceful times back in 1910. Her charisma and unwavering commitment to her cause made her one of the most prominent figures within the Spartacist movement. Propaganda played its part too; posters promoting Spartan ideals were plastered across walls throughout Germany during 1919 - symbols of revolutionaries' hopes for change. Yet despite their efforts and sacrifices, ultimately it was not meant to be for the Spartacists. As history unfolded further after these revolutionary scenes depicted through photographs emerged captured communists being escorted away by Reichswehr troops and German security police in 1921.