Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Booklet - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

adjacent areas in Gambia and Guinea-Bissau. In 2010, the foundation
also financially supported a project of the society «Berliner
Entwicklungspolitischer Ratschlag e.V.» to create a commemorative
plaque at the May-Ayim-Ufer in order to increase awareness of
and examine colonialism and racism in the city.
Board: DR. EVELIN WIT TICH (chair); DR. GESINE LÖTZSCH,
DR. ARNDT HOPFMANN
Founder: PROF. DR. HARALD BREUER
miCHaeL sCHumann Foundation
The Michael Schumann Foundation is a dependent foundation of
the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. The foundation’s name, Michael
Schumann, is a direct reference to one of the most prominent and
respected politicians of the PDS, who lost his life in a tragic car
accident towards the end of the year 2000.
Prof. Dr. Schumann held a path-breaking speech at the extraordinary
party congress in December 1989. He demanded that the
newly formed socialist party deliver a clear rejection of Stalinism.
Michael Schumann also opposed any «superstitious belief in the
potential of state instruments of force, which were deprived of all
forms of democratic control». As a political intellectual, he authentically
embodied the need to theoretically and ethically adjust the
political practice of the party. He convincingly implemented his demands
in his conceptual influence and his work as a member of
the regional parliament in Brandenburg. In his spirit, the Michael
Schumann Foundation aims to promote political education, science
and research, international understanding and co-operation. In
2007, the Michael Schumann Stiftung purchased the Dietz Verlag.
Board: PROF. DR. DIETER KLEIN (Chairman); HEINZ VIETZE,
DR. LUTZ BRANGSCH
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