Luis Corvalán

Luis Corvalán Lépe (born September 14, 1916 in Puerto Montt , † July 21, 2010 in Santiago de Chile ; born Luis Nicolás Corvalán Lépez ) was a Chilean politician and general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile .

Life

Corvalan during his visit to Berlin in 1977 with Erich Honecker, Chairman of the State Council

In 1932 Luis Corvalán joined the Communist Party of Chile at the age of fifteen towards the end of the dictatorship of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo in the city of Chillán . Trained as a teacher, he worked in the party's Politburo from 1952 , and from 1958 as General Secretary. At the time the party was banned from 1948 to 1958, Corvalán was incarcerated in prison camps such as Pitrufquén and Pisagua . Under his leadership, the party then advocated a popular front policy and participated in the Unidad Popular .

After the coup, Pinochet's September 11, 1973 Luis Corvalan was arrested and taken to the concentration camp "Ritoque" on the island Dawson spent. After the murder of Víctor Jaras , he was the most prominent political prisoner in Chile. His release was requested in an international solidarity campaign. On December 18, 1976, he was exchanged for the Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky in Zurich and found asylum in the Soviet Union, where he received the Lenin Prize , among other things . From here he founded the Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez .

In 1988, at the end of the Pinochet dictatorship , he returned to Chile. He lived in a small house in Santiago de Chile until his death and was the center of a large family. His latest book, The Communists and Democracy , was published in 2008. In it, he advocates a society based on a new social movement and calls for the re-nationalization of the Chilean copper mines , among other things . Until his death he was a member of the Communist Party Central Committee .

In 1976, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, he was awarded the Karl Marx Order in the GDR .

Publications

Freedom for Chile! Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt a. M. 1973.
Luis Corvalán, Eduardo Labarca: Communist Politics in Chile. Interviews with the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile. Publishing house for the study of the labor movement, West Berlin 1973.
Eduardo Labarca: Luis Corvalán - fighter for the cause of the people. APN Publishing House, Moscow 1975.
Out of my life. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1978.
The collapse of Soviet power. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-320-01909-0 .
Conversations with Margot Honecker about the other Germany. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00950-9 .
Luis Corvalán, Klaus Huhn (eds.): The other September 11th. The murder of Allende and thousands of Chileans 30 years ago . Spotless-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-933544-80-7 .
The communists and democracy. 2008.

Web links

Commons : Luis Corvalán - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Luis Corvalán in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ André Scheer: Farewell to Don Lucho. In: young world . July 22, 2010, accessed October 28, 2019 .
^ ^A ^b Phil Davison: Luis Corvalan: Communist who helped Allende become Chile's president and was later exchanged for the Soviet dissident Bukovsky. In: The Independent . July 24, 2010, accessed October 28, 2019 .
^ Raúl Martínez: Una mirada a Allende con Luis Corvalán. In: nuestrapropuesta.org.ar. September 14, 2006, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on October 28, 2019 (Spanish).
↑ Luis Corlaván is dead. In: RandZone. July 22, 2010, archived from the original on September 10, 2012 ; accessed on October 28, 2019 .
↑ Jürgen Vogt: Chile's old communist. In: taz.de . July 23, 2010, p. 2 , accessed October 28, 2019 .
^ Exchange in Zurich: Bukowski for Corvalán . In: Der Spiegel . No. 53 , 1976, p. 58 ( online ).
↑ Torsten Harmsen: What does ... Luis Corvalan. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 27, 2009. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
↑ Karl Marx Order for Luis Corvalan. In: Berliner Zeitung , September 14, 1976, p. 1.

personal data
SURNAME	Corvalan, Luis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Corvalán Castillo, Luis Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean politician and general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Puerto Montt , Chile
DATE OF DEATH	July 21, 2010
Place of death	Santiago de Chile

[1] André Scheer: Farewell to Don Lucho. In: young world . July 22, 2010, accessed October 28, 2019 .

[indep-2] A ^b Phil Davison: Luis Corvalan: Communist who helped Allende become Chile's president and was later exchanged for the Soviet dissident Bukovsky. In: The Independent . July 24, 2010, accessed October 28, 2019 .

[3] Raúl Martínez: Una mirada a Allende con Luis Corvalán. In: nuestrapropuesta.org.ar. September 14, 2006, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on October 28, 2019 (Spanish).

[4] Luis Corlaván is dead. In: RandZone. July 22, 2010, archived from the original on September 10, 2012 ; accessed on October 28, 2019 .

[5] Jürgen Vogt: Chile's old communist. In: taz.de . July 23, 2010, p. 2 , accessed October 28, 2019 .

[6] Exchange in Zurich: Bukowski for Corvalán . In: Der Spiegel . No. 53 , 1976, p. 58 ( online ).

[7] Torsten Harmsen: What does ... Luis Corvalan. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 27, 2009. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .

[8] Karl Marx Order for Luis Corvalan. In: Berliner Zeitung , September 14, 1976, p. 1.