The Galileo of the GDR: Robert Havemann

John Rodden

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2006, vol. 14, issue 01, 37-48

Abstract: The following portrait is a tribute to Robert Havemann, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death in January 2007. Largely forgotten, Havemann deserved to be remembered as one of the leading dissidents of the German Democratic Republic and as a courageous and outspoken critic of state injustices. A leading physicist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute during the Third Reich and until the mid-1960s in the GDR, Havemann grew from being a loyal Party man in the early years of the GDR, to its fiercest intellectual critic and indeed his generation's conscience during the last two decades of his life.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1080/09651560600643692

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