Schlomann Collection

Period 1963-1981
Total size   0.5 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Friedrich Wilhelm Schlomann, born in Lüneburg, Germany 1928; prisoner of war 1945-1948; studied law in Rostock and Leipzig; involved in the resistance of the Untersuchungsausschuss freiheitlicher Juristen against the regime of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED) in East Germany; fled to West Germany to escape arrest in 1950; continued his studies in Freiburg im Breisgau and took his doctor's degree in Basel, Switzerland; civil servant at departments in Bonn, including the Ministry of Defence 1959-1970; editor of programmes of the Deutsche Welle 1970-1992; interested in Asian countries like Japan, South Korea and Taiwan and in Maoism; author of many books, including publications on Maoism in Western Europe.

Content

Collection of reports, pamphlets and leaflets of Maoist groups and organizations, including the Parti Communiste de Belgique, the French Ligne Rouge, the Confederation of Iranian Students National Union, which was operating from West Germany, the Spanish Frente Revolucionario Antifascista y Patriota and other groups 1963-1981; pamphlets and leaflets in Esperanto, partly published in China 1967-1975 and n.d.; some typescripts by Schlomann on the Maoist movement in Portugal, Spain and Switzerland and on the activities of the Chinese Peoples Republic directed towards Western Europe 1968, 1975-1976, 1979-1980; lists made for his bibliographical research of Western European Maoist periodicals c. 1981.