Georg Grosz - Georg LEDEBOUR - Portrait des USPD-VORSITZENDEN & Mitglied der ARBEITER- & SOLDATENRÄTE

LEDEBOUR - 1923 - expressionistic lithography - original from the cycle ECCE HOMO (MalikVerlag) in very good contemporary condition - sheet no. 54 - reference: rifkind 952.1-84 with illustration - DückersS1,1-84 83.1.73.1-84 (no reprint, Original from the time) - format approx.: approx. 34 x 24 cm. - Shipping: Germany 4.00 euro :-) - Europe 9.00 - Overseas 16.00 euro : :-)/ :-) - multiple lots maybe combined - Shipping costs are only incurred once

--- Georg Ledebour Politician 1850-1947 1917 April 8: Ledebour takes over the presidency of the newly founded Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). He tries to keep in touch with the SPD. 1918 November: During the November Revolution, Ledebour abandons his earlier reluctance to use extra-parliamentary means. He urges strikes and mass actions. November 14: Ledebour declines the offer to join the Council of People's Representatives, whose SPD members Friedrich Ebert, Philipp Scheidemann and Otto Landsberg are, in his eyes, compromised by their war policies. Instead, Ledebour is active as a member of the Berlin Executive Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils. 1919 January: Ledebour takes part in the Spartacus uprising and is arrested. The trial against him ends in an acquittal. 1920 March: Ledebour is confirmed as chairman of the USPD. June 6: In the Reichstag elections, he receives a four-year mandate as a member of the USPD. Sommer: He rejects the union with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) demanded by the left wing of the USPD and criticizes Vladimir I. Lenin's Unified Party of Bolsheviks. October 16: At the USPD party conference in Halle, the numerically strong left wing of the party decides to join the Communist International. The social-democratic wing of the rest of the USPD advocates the goal of supporting parliamentary democracy. 1921 Ledebour tries to show the rest of the USPD a political path between SPD and KPD. 1922 The social-democratic wing of the remaining USPD and the SPD reunite. Ledebour opposes unification with small socialist splinter groups of the remnant USPD. 1924 He becomes chairman of the Socialist League, which emerged from the splinter groups. 1931 Under his leadership, the Socialist Union joins the short-lived Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD). 1933 February: After the National Socialists took power, Ledebour emigrated to Switzerland. He becomes very ill. 1934-1937 Despite poor health, he publicizes his opposition to the terror of the Nazi regime. 1939-1945 During the Second World War he has to retire to a sanatorium for health reasons.