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Berlin (dpa) - A good 102 years after the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, hundreds of people in Berlin thought of the two communist leaders.
The left had invited to the traditional silent remembrance at the memorial of the socialists at the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde.
Numerous federal and state politicians of the party took part, including the federal chairwoman Janine Wissler and the Berlin party leader Katina Schubert.
The last GDR Prime Minister from the SED state party, Hans Modrow, also came.
Every year around January 15, the anniversary of the death of Luxemburg and Liebknecht, Die Linke commemorates the two personalities.
This year the commemoration was postponed because of the corona pandemic, but it has now been made up for.
Mask requirements, distance and hygiene rules applied at the event.
Stewards ensured that not too many visitors were in the immediate vicinity of the memorial at the same time.
The police spoke of a few hundred participants, the left of a four-digit number.
At the beginning of January 1919, a revolutionary committee headed by Liebknecht, co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), declared the government of Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert to be deposed.
There were mass demonstrations.
The "Spartacus uprising" was put down.
Right-wing Freikorps soldiers shot Luxemburg and Liebknecht on January 15, 1919 in Berlin.
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Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery