Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Roland Jahn (born on 14 July 1953 in Jena, Thuringia) is a German journalist and former East German dissident who took office as Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives in March 2011.Jahn began to study economics in 1975 but was forced to end his studies in 1977 after he criticized the extradition of singer-activist Wolf Biermann from East Germany to West Germany. He then worked as a transport worker at the VEB Carl Zeiss Jena. Jahn became active in protests opposing militarization and censorship in East Germany, resulting in multiple arrests until he was sentenced to 22 months imprisonment in 1982 for displaying a flag of the forbidden Polish non-communist trade union Solidarity.