Wolfgang Ullmann

Wolfgang Ullmann (18 August 1929 – 30 July 2004) was a German journalist, theologian, politician.

From 1948 to 1954 he studied Protestant theology and also philosophy, first in Berlin and then at the University of Göttingen.

Following graduation he returned to East Germany in 1954 and became minister in Colmnitz, Saxony.

Protected by the Protestant Church in East Germany, opposition movements against the regime in the GDR formed and in 1987 Wolfgang Ullman became a member of one of these group, the “Initiative for the Refusal of Practice and Principle of the Demarcation”.

[1] He was married since 1956 and had three children including the composer Jakob Ullmann.