L’Ordine Nuovo / Contributor

Clara Zetkin

Name
Clara Zetkin
Born
5 July 1857, Wiederau, Saxony
Died
20 June 1933, Arkhangelskoye, near Moscow
Aliases
Clara Eißner (birth name); Clara Zetkin
Position in 1919–1920
Communist politician; socialist women’s organizer; Reichstag deputy from 1920
Affiliations
SPD (earlier); Spartacus group; USPD (from 1917); KPD (from 1919); international socialist women’s movement
Council delegate
unknown
Bio
Zetkin organized socialist women internationally and opposed the wartime political truce supported by the SPD leadership. She helped establish the Spartacus group and joined the USPD before entering the KPD in 1919. From 1920 she represented the KPD in the Reichstag. In 1921–1925 she led the journal Die Kommunistische Fraueninternationale.
Articles
1

Indexed full catalog cards · Issues I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, I.7, I.8, I.9, I.10, I.11, I.12, I.13, I.14, I.15, I.16, I.17, I.18, I.19, I.20, I.21, I.22, I.23, I.24, I.25, I.26, I.27, I.28, I.29, I.30, I.31, I.32, I.33, I.34, I.35, I.36, I.37, I.38, I.39, I.40, I.41, I.42, I.43, II.1, II.2, II.3, II.4, II.5, II.6. Coauthored cards count once for each named author. Serialized installments are counted as separate issue cards.

Brief records / quotations
0 · Separate from the Articles count.
Other Notes
The indexed Spartacus appeal is dated Christmas 1918 and was reprinted in May 1919; its four signatories each receive one full-card credit.

Sources

Biographical research checked 2026-10-06. Printed signatures and contribution details follow the indexed facsimiles and the catalog’s attribution notes. “unknown” means not securely established; advocacy of councils does not establish service as an elected delegate.

  1. Deutsches Historisches Museum, LeMO: Clara Zetkin