Category:Wolfgang Leonhard

**Wolfgang Leonhard**
	German author, historian Wolfgang Leonhard, 1990
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Name in native language	Wolfgang Leonhard;
Date of birth	16 April 1921; Vienna
Date of death	17 August 2014; Daun
Cause of death	disease;
Place of burial	Rhineland-Palatinate;
Country of citizenship	Germany; Austria;
Educated at	Landschulheim Herrlingen; Karl Liebknecht School; Moscow State Linguistic University; St Antony's College;
Occupation	writer; historian; university teacher;
Employer	Parteihochschule Karl Marx (1947–1949); Columbia University; National Committee for a Free Germany (1943–1945); Yale University (1966–1987);
Member of	PEN Centre Germany; National Committee for a Free Germany;
Member of political party	Socialist Unity Party of Germany; Communist Party of Germany; Independent Workers' Party of Germany;
Position held	professor;
Father	Rudolf Leonhard;
Mother	Susanne Leonhard;
Spouse	Elke Leonhard (1974–2014);
Notable work	Child of the Revolution;
Award received	Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; Austrian Decoration for Science and Art;
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Wolfgang Leonhard (16 April 1921 – 17 August 2014) was a German political author, historian and a profound connoisseur on Soviet communism. From 1935 to 1945 he lived in the Soviet Union. He returned to Germany as member of the Ulbricht Group. In 1949 he broke with the founders of the former East Germany to become a Soviet critic and professor at Yale University.