Rolf Henrich was born on 24 February 1944 and is a writer and lawyer.
10 Facts About Rolf Henrich
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Rolf Henrich was required to change the subject of his dissertation, now addressing the subject "The next tasks of Soviet power" : he nevertheless accomplished his own task, receiving his degree-diploma with a top grade.
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Nevertheless, Rolf Henrich remained a relatively discrete dissident through the early 1980s.
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In some ways it was a conscious follow-up to "The Alternative", the publication of which in 1977 had led to its author's arrest and subsequent deportation, but twelve years on Rolf Henrich Heinrich was much more analytically pessimistic about the way ahead for Socialism in the German Democratic Republic than Rudolf Bahro had been.
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In East Germany Rolf Henrich was expelled from the ruling SED and excluded from the "Collective of Lawyers" which effectively terminated, for the time being, his legal career in Eisenhuttenstadt.
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Early in September 1989, at Grunheide, Rolf Henrich was one of the 30 signatories of the founding proclamation that gave birth to the New Forum movement.
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Rolf Henrich participated in the Round Table discussions on behalf of New Forum.
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Rolf Henrich later told an interviewer that Manfred Gerlach, who had been the East German head of state between 3 December 1989 and 18 March 1990, had offered him a job as President of the country's Supreme Court, but Rolf Henrich turned down that job along with an invitation to take a government post as secretary of state in the Ministry of Justice.
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Rolf Henrich evidently thought he might have independence issues or become a "figleaf" with a high-profile post in the East German judicial-political establishment.
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German reunification formally took place in October 1990 and Rolf Henrich returned to his life as a provincial lawyer in Eisenhuttenstadt.