Guest lecture by Gregor Gysi at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
Gregor Gysi has been an important and at times controversial public figure in post-unification Germany. Until recently, he served as the leader of the Left Party faction (Die Linke) in the German Bundestag, where he also represented the Berlin Treptow-Köpenick district as one of the few directly elected members from a minority party. Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall and unification, Gysi was a member of the SED's Gorbachev-inspired reformist camp. As a licensed attorney in East Germany, he defended several prominent dissidents. After the fall of the GDR regime, Gysi headed the SED and guided the party's transformation into the post-communist PDS, before it eventually joined with the West German WAGS to form the Left Party.
This lecture has been generously funded by a bequest from Michael Olshausen to the Friends of the German Historical Institute.
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