At the age of 14, Lipinski was offered a short-term contract as a gardener before becoming a shop assistant in a material goods store serving brandy by the end of 1881.

From September 1882 to 1894, he was a rapporteur for the Socialist Leipziger Zeitung, and was fined and imprisoned several times for violating press law regulations.

They spoke directly with members of the local Kriegamstelle (War Ministry), who agreed to increase food deliveries to Leipzig.

Lipinski, Lieberasch, and Hermann Liebmann were elected to go and meet with Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany, the next day.

However, when they went to Berlin, Bethmann Hollweg refused to meet them and they were dealt with by Wahneschaffe and Wilhelm Groener, head of the Kriegamst, who showed sympathy but agreed to nothing.

The union leaders' readiness to accept the end of the strike without other concessions contributed to the working class' disillusion with them, and were regarded by many as social patriots.

One of his first goals was to introduce universal, equal, direct and secret proportional representation for men and women over the age of 21, which he proposed on 28 November 1918.

[5] During the November Revolution, Lipinski slowed down the action of the Workers' and Soldiers' Council in Leipzig and represented the "treacherous" role of Ebert, Scheidemann, and Noske.

Since 1992, one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has commemorated Lipinski in the Berlin district of Tiergarten park at the corner of Scheidemannstaße and the Republic Square.

In the lobby of the Board Room of the SPD party in the Bundestag, a text plaque pays tribute to the Social Democratic parliamentarians who were against the Enabling Act of the National Socialists on 23 March 1933.

The renovated office, commercial and residential building were inaugurated by Inge Wettig-Daniel Meier in memory of the leading Social Democrats in Leipzig and Saxony.