The Memory of Dictatorship and the Future of Democracy: The East German Past Today
Now considered one of Germany's leading public intellectuals, Richard Schröder was a Protestant minister from the Harz region in East Germany. He joined the SPD in 1989 and was elected in the first free elections to the East German Volkskammer. He was a member of the SPD's core values commission until 2001 and a member of the National Ethics Council from 2001 until 2007. He is Professor Emeritus of Theology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
This lecture has been generously funded by a bequest from Michael Olshausen to the Friends of the German Historical Institute.
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