So, Solidarnosc conUTES. And, HOTC-EAST ever, Polish workers need internatonai solidarity from other workers. Solidarnosc and socialists the world over lost an important ally when Robert last month. We reprint below his obituary in the recent issue of the French Inprecor.
With the death of Robert Havemann on 19 April 1982 the opposition moveICAE CAS CEMEN LOSEHS DOSENROWI representative, in many ways its symbol Robert Havemann was one of the great physicists of our time, a specialist in photosynthesis.
Condemned to death by the Nazis for spying for the Soviet Union he saved his life because the German army becamc interested in his theoretical work which he was allowed to continuc while he was awaiting execution. Lihcrated bythe Red Army in the fall of Berlin on 2 May 1945 he became a member of the Commanist Party.
Living in West Berlin he was ap pointed Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. the research in the natural sciences in the old ves the victim of MoCarthyiem: unde WES IE VILLIE pressure from the American authorites he was stripped of his posi Lions on the pretext of his belonging te meet cand nis cicclion to mae Chamber of the People in the young East German Republic in 1949.
He moved to East Berlin and became president of the Bast German Academy of Sciences, a tep position in the party and the state, and the holder of every concervabic decoration Khrushcher& report to the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Parly in February 1956 broke him ideologicall: and politically from Stalinsm.
From the 1960s he held courses at the Humboldt University in East Havemann died crifica Marxism.
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Communists. revolutionary 2OLTIIT which turned into calls for an open and incorporating all the gains of contemporary science. Having sulfered repression under the Nazis and under American and West German inrepression Stalinist burcaucrucy, He was removed from all his positions, expelled from the party. put under house arrest, and isolated students, supporters and Robert Havemann received many of Ters from the East Berlin authorities as miliens emigrate. courageously and systematically refuscc in the lollowing terms: h am democratic Communist who says in his Sp passiona ethe Soldatohe and Solidarnosc and publicly protested against their repression.
He represented what was best and most encouraging among the German who. without adopting Marxism. broken with Stalinism and remained Marxists.