Otto Braun (komunis)

Otto Braun alias Li De di Tiongkok

Otto Braun (28 September 1900 – 15 Agustus 1974) adalah seorang komunis Jerman dengan karier yang panjang dan bervariasi. Perannya yang paling penting adalah sebagai agen Komintern yang dikirim ke Republik Tiongkok pada tahun 1934 sebagai penasihat Partai Komunis Tiongkok (PKT) tentang strategi militer selama Perang Saudara Tiongkok. Pada saat itu Braun memakai nama Tiongkok, Li De (Hanzi: 李德; Pinyin: Lǐ Dé), setelah beberapa tahun kemudian baru diketahui bahwa Otto Braun dan "Li De" adalah orang yang sama.

Braun meninggal pada usia 74, saat ia sedang berlibur di Varna, Bulgaria. Dia dimakamkan di Berlin Timur, berita tentang kematiannya muncul di Pravda dan The New York Times.^[1]

Referensi

1. "Otto Braun, Who Had Key Role In Chinese Communism, Is Dead". New York Times. August 23, 1974. [1]

• "Li De yu Zhongguo geming (youguan ziliao)" ("Li De and the Chinese Revolution [Relevant Materials]") by Shi Zhifu; Zhou Wenqi; review in The China Quarterly, No. 118 (Jun., 1989), pp. 373–374, Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the School of Oriental and African Studies [2].
• "Otto Brauns frühes Wirken in China (1932-1935)" ("Otto Braun's Early Activity in China (1932-1935") by Freddy Litten [3].
• Freddy Litten (Frederick S. Litten), abstracts from "China and intelligence history" (on the Long March)
• Litten, who made a through research on Braun, gave the following note on his sources:
  • The article on "Braun in Germany" is based on documents in archives in Berlin, Potsdam and Munich, contemporary newspaper reports and publications.
  • "Braun in China" is based on Litten's own paper "Otto Brauns frühes Wirken in China (1932-1935)" [4].
  • "Otto Braun's Curriculum Vitae" is based on some further unpublished documents (especially his privately held cv), but mostly on a wide array of publications in German, English, Russian and Chinese.