Konrad Haenisch

Konrad Haenisch (13 March, 1876 - 28 April, 1925) was a German Social Democratic Party politician and part of "the radical Marxist Left" of German politics. [Nicholas Stargardt, "The German Idea of Militarism. Radical and Socialist Critics 1866-1914" (Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 138.] Friend and follower ("Parvulus" in his own words) of Alexander Parvus. Haenisch was initially against World War I in 1914, but subsequently supported it. In a speech given to the 1916 SDP conference, he remembered the 'August enthusiasm':

:"The conflict of two souls in one breast was probably easy for none of us. [It lasted] until suddenly—I shall never forget the day and hour—the terrible tension was resolved; until one dared to be what one was; until—despite all principles and wooden theories—one could, for the first time in almost a quarter century, join with a full heart, a clean conscience and without a sense of treason in the sweeping, stormy song: "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles"." [Carl Schorske, "German Social Democracy 1905-1917. The Development of the Great Schism" (Cambridge University Press, 1955), p. 290.]

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