Protection Committee for Freedom and Socialism
The Protection Committee Freedom and Socialism was an organization founded by intellectuals in West Berlin in 1976 that campaigned for the release of political prisoners in the GDR .
After Biermann's expulsion and the ensuing wave of arrests (which affected Jürgen Fuchs , Christian Kunert and Gerulf Pannach, for example ) and the trial of Rudolf Bahro , the West Berlin publicist Hannes Schwenger took the initiative to found the protection committee. Co-founder was u. a. the historian and sociologist Manfred Wilke ; prominent members were Heinrich Albertz , Heinrich Böll , Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Max Frisch , Robert Jungk , Otto Schily and Romy Schneider .
The first action sought the release of the writer Jürgen Fuchs , who was in custody of the GDR State Security . The Freedom and Socialism Protection Committee was classified as an enemy organization by the State Security of the GDR and, as such, was closely observed. 1979 the initiative stopped its work.
literature
- Hannes Schwenger : The protection committee for freedom and socialism in self-testimonies, documents, letters and in the distorting mirror of the MfS files . Berlin 1995
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hans-Georg Soldat : Criminalization campaigns of the Stasi: Special issue of the magazine Europäische ideen deals with the “Protection Committee Freedom and Socialism” . In: Berliner Zeitung . March 9, 1995. Retrieved August 5, 2012.