Robert Havemann was an East German chemist, physicist, and dissident.
Havemann in 1960
Grave at the Waldfriedhof Grünheide
Zersetzung is a psychological warfare technique first used by the Ministry for State Security to repress political opponents in East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. Zersetzung served to combat all
Robert Havemann
…His son Florian Havemann (born 12 January 1952 in East Berlin) fled to West Germany in 1971. Havemann was a victim of the Stasi's Zersetzung psychological warfare program. He continued his work as a socialist critic and was put under house arrest in 1976, at his home in the village of…
The writer Jürgen Fuchs was targeted with Zersetzung methods. He described them as an 'assault on the human soul'. He died of a rare form of leukemia which he believed was caused by the Stasi's use of weaponised X-ray devices on him.
Directive No. 1/76 on the Development and Revision of Operational Procedures, which outlined the use of Zersetzung in the Ministry for State Security
The Uprising of 1953 in East Germany was an early display of open political opposition to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
Rudolf Bahro was persecuted by the Stasi using Zersetzung methods. Like other dissidents, he died of a case of cancer which is suspected to have been caused by weaponised X-ray devices.