What is Wolfgang Leonhard?
{{more sources|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Wolfgang Leonhard | birth_name = Wladimir Leonhard | image = Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1990-0625-029a, Berlin, Wolfgang Leonhard.jpg | caption = Wolfgang Leonhard (1990) | imagesize = | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|4|16|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Vienna]], [[First Austrian Republic|Austria]] | death_date = {{dda|2014|8|17|1921|4|16|df=y}} | death_place = [[Daun, Germany|Daun]], [[Rhineland-Palatinate]], [[Germany]] | occupation = Historian, lecturer, writer | language = |party = [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany|SED]]<br>(later a party dissident) |spouse = [[:de:Elke Leonhard|Elke Leonhard-Schmid]] (1974) |children = |alma_mater = | nationality = [[Germany|German]] }} '''Wolfgang Leonhard''' (16 April 1921 – 17 August 2014) was a [[Germans|German]] political author, historian, and expert. He wrote many books on [[Communism]] and how he was against it. He was the last living member of the [[Ulbricht Group]], an anti-communism group. Leonhard was born in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]] to German parents. Leonhard died at a hospital in [[Daun, Germany|Daun]], [[Germany]] from a long-illness at the age of 93.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zeit.de/kultur/2014-08/wolfgang-leonhard-historiker-tot|title=Obituary in Die Zeit|publisher=Zeit.de|accessdate=17 August 2014}}</ref> ==Awards== * [[Phi Beta Kappa]] from [[Yale University]] (1982) * [[Merit Cross 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany]] (''Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse) (1987) * Honorary doctorate from the [[Chemnitz University of Technology]] (1998) * [[Austrian Decoration for Science and Art|Cross of Honour for Science and Art]], 1st Class (Austria, 2002) * European Science Culture Award (2004) ==References== {{reflist}} ==More reading== * Wolfgang Leonhard, ''Die Revolution entlässt ihre Kinder''. Köln (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) 1955; in Engl.: ''Child of the revolution''. Transl. by C. M. Woodhouse. London (Collins) 1957 ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}}