Michael Kogon, born 1928 in Vienna, is the oldest son of Eugen Kogon (author of The Theory and Practice of Hell and editor of the political magazine Frankfurter Hefte). Michael is an economist, a doctor of economics and political science, an author, and a translator. Recently he has been in the public eye as editor of his father’s writings and as translator of the works of the French diplomat and essayist Stèphane Hessel (Idignez-Vous!). Kogon lives in Füllinsdorf, Switzerland. He is married, with three children and four grandchildren.
