Wolfgang Templin

Later, Templin was a victim of the Stasi's Zersetzung psychological warfare program, which he sought to expose to the public with modest success.

He published in the underground journal “Grenzfall”, cooperated with opposition in Eastern Europe and integrated environmental and pacifist groups in the GDR.

From 1994-96 he was a research worker at the Berlin Wall Museum, whereas in 1996 he became a co-founder of the Federal Foundation for the Reconciliation of the SED Dictatorship.

[3] In 2009 he was awarded Dialog Magazine Prize of the Polish-German Society and the 2010 European Solidarity Centre medal.

Since July 2010 Wolfgang Templin has been the Director of the Warsaw office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.