Georg Schumann ( resistance fighter ) Georg Schumann ( 28 November 1886 in Leipzig - Reudnitz , Saxony – 11 January 1945 in Dresden ) was a German Communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime . Life . Imperial Germany . Even Georg Schumann ' s father was a socialist . The skilled toolmaker joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) in 1905 , and was chosen to be shop steward in Jena in 1907 . In 1912 , he went to the Social Democratic Party School in Jena , where Rosa Luxemburg discovered his journalistic gifts . The SPD posted him at the " Leipziger Volkszeitung " newspaper in 1913 as editor . During World War I , Schumann joined the " Gruppe Internationale " ( see " Spartacist League " ) founded by Luxemburg , Karl Liebknecht and Clara Zetkin and agitated in the " Leipziger Arbeiterjugend " ( Leipzig Working Youth ) against the war . In 1916 , he was conscripted , and for doing illegal work for the Spartacist League within the army , he was sentenced to imprisonment . One of his soldier guards was the later Communist revolutionary Max Hoelz , whom Schumann acquainted with socialism ' s fundamentals . Weimar Republic . In November 1918 , Schumann led the Spartacist League in Leipzig and in 1919 was elected Political Leader of the Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ) Leipzig District , and in 1921 Political Leader of the KPD Halle - Merseburg District and the local Prussian Landtag member . In 1923 , the Party Congress chose him for a position in the Party ' s Central Committee . In the factional struggles after the KPD ' s so - called " October Defeat " in 1923 , Schumann joined the so - called Middle Group . The ultraleftists did not choose him again for the Central Committee position in 1924 , and he had to give up the Reichstag mandate that he had won in May 1924 . In late 1924 , his " Landtag " mandate expired , and along with it , his immunity . Since he had been a member of the KPD Central Committee , he was persecuted by the police . He emigrated in early 1925 to Moscow . In March 1926 , he returned to Germany to become Party leader in Halle - Merseburg once again , but instead he was arrested , and spent almost a year in pre - trial custody . In 1927 , he was chosen to be in the Central Committee again , and he became Political Leader in West Saxony ( Leipzig ) , and in 1928 , a Member of the Reichstag . In the factional struggles in 1929 , he once again sided with the Middle Group , the Conciliator faction . The victorious left wing about Ernst Thälmann therefore removed him from his post as Leader in West Saxony over storms of protest . In late 1929 , he submitted to the Thälmann line . In 1930 - 1933 , he was once again a Member of the Reichstag , and busied himself above all with the Communist jobless workers ' movement . Honours . Since 1945 , a main street in Leipzig , the highway leading towards Schkeuditz and Halle , part of " Bundesstraße 6 " has borne the name " Georg - Schumann - Straße " . From 1972 until 1991 , a barracks of East Germany ' s National People ' s Army in Leipzig ' s Möckern neighbourhood bore the name " Georg - Schumann - Kaserne " . Also here was a memorial to Schumann , which has since been torn down . There is a primary school in Leipzig , however , which is still called " Georg - Schumann - Schule " .