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Photographer: Andrew Ruppenstein
Taken: September 23, 2023
Caption: Karl Marx House and Marker
Additional Description: The house was built in 1727 as a two-story Baroque building. Karl Marx was born there on 5 May 1818. In October 1819, the Marx family moved to a smaller building near the Porta Nigra. The significance of the house went unnoticed until 1904, at which point the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) attempted to acquire the home, succeeding in 1928. After the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, the building was confiscated and turned into a printing house. On 5 May 1947 the building was opened as a museum of the life and works of Karl Marx… - Wikipedia
Submitted: September 24, 2023, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p751632
File Size: 3.851 Megabytes

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