Robert Havemann
Robert Havemann | |
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Kaiser Wilhelm Institute | |
| Spouse(s) | 1: Antje Hasenclever 1934 2. Karin von Trotha 1949 3: Annedore Grafe 1974 |
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| Fields | Chemistry |
Robert Havemann (German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈhaːvəˌman] ⓘ; 11 March 1910 – 9 April 1982) was an East German chemist and dissident.
Life and career
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He studied chemistry in
Havemann joined the
After the war, he became head of administration in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin, but in 1948 he was dismissed from this position due to political pressure from the American authorities in West Berlin. He continued his scientific work in the institute until he got barred from his laboratory in January 1950.
He then became a professor of physical chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He became a member of the Volkskammer in 1950 and won one of the GDR's national prizes in 1959. He published articles in Sinn und Form criticizing modern socialism and revisionist works of the Western authors.[3]
In 1963 he lectured on 'Scientific Aspects of Philosophical Problems' (published as 'Dialectic without Dogmatism—Natural Sciences against Communistic Ideology') and was expelled from the ruling Socialist Unity Party and dismissed from the University—officially because he gave an interview to a newspaper from West Germany.
His son Florian Havemann (born 12 January 1952 in East Berlin) fled to West Germany in 1971.
Havemann was a victim of the Stasi's Zersetzung psychological warfare program.
He continued his work as a socialist critic and was put under
In 1989 he was politically rehabilitated by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany's Central Party Control Commission.
In 2005, Havemann was awarded the title
References
- ISBN 978-3-89244-943-0(in German)
- ^ Claudia Keller. "Späte Ehre für die selbstlosen Retter" ("Late Honor for the selfless Lifesaver") Der Taggespiel (6 July 2005) Retrieved 16 March 2010 (in German)
- ISBN 978-0-521-26835-6.
- ^ "Israel honours memory of anti-Nazi 'European Union'"[permanent dead link] Reuters (20 June 2006) Retrieved 17 March 2010
- Havemann, Robert (2009). Morgen. BoD. pp. 187–188. ISBN 978-3-8391-3657-7.
External links
- Official website of the award winning film The Burning Wall Archived 22 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- Hartmut Jäckel. "Der Dissident der aus der Kälte kam" ("The dissident who came out from the cold") Die Welt (10 March 2010). Retrieved 18 March 2010 (in German)
- Robert Havemann – his activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashemwebsite
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