Reiner Frank (Emancipation Map Game)

Heinrich Otto Reiner Frank was a German communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served chairman of the Commune of Hamburg following the 1875 uprisings.

Born to a middle-class family in Keil, Frank gained an interest in revolutionary socialist politics seeing the miserable industrial conditions of his time. Expelled from the University of Berlin, he devoted the following years to a law degree. While in exile from 1865 to 1868, he bacame a disciple of Karl Marx. After his exile, he moved to Hamburg and helped founded the Labor League (German: Arbeitsliga), which later played a large role in the 1875 revolution, overthrowing the government of Leo von Caprivi.