Wolfgang Harich
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Wolfgang Harich (3 December 1923 - 21 March 1995) was a philosopher and journalist in East Germany.
A deserter in World War II and a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Harich became a professor of philosophy at Humboldt University in 1949. He was arrested in 1956 and sentenced to ten years in prison for the "education of a conspiratorial anarchist group". He was released in 1964 and rehabilitated in 1990. In 1994 he joined the Party of Democratic Socialism.