19 Facts About Wolfgang Harich

Wolfgang Harich was a philosopher and journalist in East Germany.

Wolfgang Harich's grave is preserved in the Protestant Friedhof III der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde in Berlin-Kreuzberg, south of Hallesches Tor.

Wolfgang Harich was born in Konigsberg, East Prussia, on 9 December 1923, into an upper-class literary educated family.

Wolfgang Harich's father was a writer Walter Harich and his mother was Anne-Lise Wyneken, the daughter of Alexander Wyneken, editor in chief of the Konigsberger Allgemeine Zeitung.

Wolfgang Harich became known as one of the stronger voices in post war debates at a very young age in Germany.

Wolfgang Harich studied philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin and, upon graduation, became professor of philosophy and taught at the same university.

Wolfgang Harich emigrated to Austria in 1979, moved to West Germany in 1980, and returned to the Besseres Deutschland or "Better Germany" in 1981.

Wolfgang Harich studied philosophy at Humboldt University in East Berlin with Nicolai Hartmann and Eduard Spranger, graduating in 1951.

Wolfgang Harich began giving lectures in 1949 on Marxist Philosophy, and in 1952 he became the University's Professor of Philosophy.

Wolfgang Harich joined Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, the Communist Party of Germany, then later joined Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, which later became the ruling party of the German Democratic Republic, in 1946.

Wolfgang Harich was looking for a "third way" between Stalinism and capitalism, he wanted a "humanistic socialism" in a reunified Germany.

Wolfgang Harich established and engaged his friends, opponents, and social democrats in controversy in West Germany to argue that the GDR should make reforms to further the reunion of Germany.

Wolfgang Harich's sweeping reform proposals represented the only Party attempt at the internal restructuring of the GDR before it collapsed.

Wolfgang Harich was arrested on 29 November 1956, indicted in March 1957 and sentenced to imprisonment in July 1957.

Wolfgang Harich remained in jail until released in December 1964.

Wolfgang Harich had later testified against a former friend Walter Janka, head of the Aufbau Publishing Company, creating a new "text book" characterized enemy.

Wolfgang Harich became accomplished and created a name for himself at a very young age.

Wolfgang Harich followed in his father's footsteps and became a Jean Paul scholar, writing two books dealing with Paul's epistemology and poetic vision, which are arguably his finest scholarship.

Wolfgang Harich became editor-in-chief of the journal Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie along with Arthur Baumgarten, Ernst Bloch, and Karl Schroter in 1953.