Robert Jungk

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Jungk in c. 1978

Robert Jungk (German:

nuclear weapons.[1]

Life

Jungk was born into a

Jewish family in Berlin. His father, known as Max Jungk, was born David Baum in Bohemia
.

When Adolf Hitler came to power, Robert Jungk was arrested and released, moved to Paris, then back to Nazi Germany to work in a subversive press service. These activities forced him during World War II to move through various cities including Prague, Paris, and Zürich. After the war, he continued working as a journalist.[citation needed]

His book

German atomic bomb project. Its first Danish edition implied that the German project's workers had been dissuaded from developing a weapon by Werner Heisenberg and his associates, a claim strongly contested by Niels Bohr. This led to questions about a 1941 meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Denmark, which became the subject of Michael Frayn's 1998 play Copenhagen
.

In 1986 Jungk received the Right Livelihood Award for "struggling indefatigably on behalf of peace, sane alternatives for the future and ecological awareness."[2]

In 1992 he made an

Green Party
.

Jungk died in Salzburg on 14 July 1994.[1]

Personal life

In 1948 Jungk married Ruth Suschitzky (1913–1995).[3] Their son is journalist and writer Peter Stephan Jungk.[4]

Bibliography

  • Tomorrow Is Already Here, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954. Reportage on scientific and technical breakthroughs, a work of nascent dystopian 'futurism'. Much of it was about what developed from the Manhattan Project, as well as things like "electronic brains".
  • Harcourt Brace
    , 1958
  • Children of the Ashes, 1st English ed. 1961. About Hiroshima
  • The Nuclear State
  • The Everyman Project
  • Future Workshops

Recognition

Anti-WAA Memorial on Mozartplatz

See also

  • Franklin Roosevelt
    )

Notes

  1. ^ a b Calder, John (17 July 1994). "Obituary: Robert Jungk". The Independent. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Robert Jungk". The Right Livelihood Award. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  3. ^ Robert Jungk – A Life Dedicated to the Future
  4. ^ Peter Stephan Jungk

External links

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