Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for womens rights. In 1911, she organized the first International Womens Day.

The eldest of three children, Clara Zetkin was born Clara Josephine Eissner in Wiederau, a peasant village in Saxony, now part of the municipality KnigshainWiederau. Her father, Gottfried Eissner, was a schoolmaster and church organist who was a devout Protestant, while her mother, Josephine Vitale, had French roots, came from a middleclass family from Leipzig, and was highly educated. Having studied to become a teacher, Zetkin developed connections with the womens movement and the labour movement in Germany from 1874. In 1878 she joined the Socialist Workers Party . This party had been founded in 1875 by merging two previous parties the ADAV formed by Ferdinand Lassalle and the SDAP of August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht. In 1890 its name was changed to its modern version Social Democratic Party of Germany .

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