Editing Karl Korsch (section)

==Early years==
Karl Korsch was born in the small rural village of [[Tostedt]] (near [[Hamburg]]) to [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] parents, Carl August Korsch and his wife Therese (''née'' Raikowski) on August 15, 1886.{{sfnp|Goode|1983}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Korsch, Karl| last = Weber | first = Hermann | website = Deutsche Biographie|url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118565567.html|access-date=2021-10-29|language=de | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191023000003/https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118565567.html | archive-date = 2019-10-23 | url-status = live }}</ref> Although Karl's father worked as a secretary in a city hall bureau, he was deeply devoted to studying the philosophy of [[Leibniz]] in his private life. He wrote an unpublished book covering the development of Leibnitz's theories of the monads.{{sfnp|Mulhern|2011|pp=15}} Longing for a more urban and intellectual life, Carl August made the decision to relocate his family west, to a village just outside [[Meiningen]] in the [[Thuringia|Thuringen]] region, when Karl was eleven years old.{{sfnp|Kellner|1977|pp=6–7}} The move not only allowed the elder Korsch to obtain employment at a local bank (where he eventually rose to the position of vice president), it also gave his children the opportunity to receive a better education. Karl, who showed great intellectual promise at a young age, excelled as a student during his years of schooling at Meiningen.

Beginning in 1906, Korsch successively attended universities in [[University of Munich|Munich]], [[University of Geneva|Geneva]], and [[FWU Berlin|Berlin]], studying various subjects such as philosophy and humanities in preparation for a more concentrated study in the field of law.{{sfnp|Kellner|1977|pp=6–7}} Korsch then entered the [[University of Jena]] (incidentally, the same university that awarded [[Karl Marx]] his doctorate in philosophy in 1841) to begin working on his law degree in 1908. When he was not occupied with his studies, Korsch was extremely active in the ''Freie Studenten'', a left-of-center student group which pushed for further liberalization of the school's code of behavior.{{sfnp|Kellner|1977|pp=6–7}} Korsch also found time to become editor of the student newspaper, to which he also contributed articles. In addition, Korsch organized and participated in lectures that featured prominent socialist speakers such as [[Eduard Bernstein]] and [[Karl Liebknecht]]. The extent of his extracurricular activities did not seem to have the slightest detrimental effect on Korsch's academic performance since he managed to earn his [[doctor of law]] from the University of Jena's in 1910. His thesis title was ''Die Anwendung der Beweislastregeln im Zivilprozess und das qualifizierte Geständnis'' (The application of the [[Burden of proof (law)|burden of proof]] in [[civil cases]] and the qualified confession). It was around this time that Korsch met [[Hedda Korsch|Hedda Gagliardi]], whom he would eventually marry in 1913.