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Clara Zetkin (1857–1933)

Clara Josephine Zetkin (neé Eißner) was born on July 5, 1857, in Wiederau, a small village in the Kingdom of Saxony, German Confederation. She was the eldest of three children of Gottfried Eißner, a local schoolteacher and a devout Protestant, and Josephine Vitale, a highly educated daughter of a middle-class family from Leipzig of French roots (Götze 1982, 5–6). Zetkin’s family moved to Leipzig in 1872, where Clara Zetkin studied to be a teacher at the Leipzig Teacher’s College for Women (Dornemann 1957, 23). Having graduated at the top of her class in 1878, the young Clara Zetkin would probably have continued her education at the university level were it not for the fact that women were not allowed to study at German universities at the time (Honeycutt 1976, 132). In 1878, at age of 21, Zetkin joined the German Socialist Workers’ Party (Taber and Riddell 2017, 6). This was the year in which Otto von Bismarck’s Anti-Socialist Laws were enacted in Germany.

Clara Zetkin ; Engels, Friedrich ; Kollontai, Alexandra ; Lenin, Vladimir Il’ič Ul’janov ; Luxemburg, Rosa ; Trotsky, Leon

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