Wolfgang Leonhard

Wolfgang Leonhard (16 April 1921 – 17 August 2014) was a German political author, historian, and expert. He wrote many books on Communism and how he was against it. He was the last living member of the Ulbricht Group, an anti-communism group. Leonhard was born in Vienna, Austria to German parents.

Wolfgang Leonhard
Wolfgang Leonhard (1990)
Born
Wladimir Leonhard

(1921-04-16)16 April 1921
Vienna, Austria
Died17 August 2014(2014-08-17) (aged 93)
Daun, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Historian, lecturer, writer
Political partySED
(later a party dissident)
SpouseElke Leonhard-Schmid (1974)

Leonhard died at a hospital in Daun, Germany from a long-illness at the age of 93.[1]

Awards
  • Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University (1982)
  • Merit Cross 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse) (1987)
  • Honorary doctorate from the Chemnitz University of Technology (1998)
  • Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st Class (Austria, 2002)
  • European Science Culture Award (2004)

References
  1. "Obituary in Die Zeit". Zeit.de. Retrieved 17 August 2014.

More reading
  • Wolfgang Leonhard, Die Revolution entlässt ihre Kinder. Köln (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) 1955; in Engl.: Child of the revolution. Transl. by C. M. Woodhouse. London (Collins) 1957

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