[The following obituary is scheduled to appear in the March 8 issue of the Frenchlanguage fortnightly Inprecor, published in Paris.J
Our comrade Gisela Scholtz died on February 14 in Paris. Her comrades and friends deeply regret her premature demise and the loss of a courageous and devoted activist.
Comrade Gisela was born in 1935 in Germany; her youth was difficult due to the hardships of the war. She was involved in the struggle of the student movement in its heyday and was active in the SDS [German Socialist Students Union]. Thereafter she joined the Fourth International, fulfilling her tasks both in the Belgian section - of which she was a central leader for several years — and on the international level. In April 1969 she was a delegate for the Belgian section to the Ninth World Congress of the Fourth International.
Gisela Scholtz was active and appreciated in her professional field as a researcher and journalist. She worked on German television for a period and was involved in several films for it, including a remarkable one on the children of Belfast, Northern Ireland, a city ravaged by endemic civil strife.
Her comrades and friends mourn with her family and companion Ernest Mandel. They will not forget her. They will remember her contribution to the struggle for the renewal of the workers movement and the building of a revolutionary International.