Who is Gottfried Lessing from Under My Skin and what is their importance? Under_My_Skin_(book) English & Literature Gottfried Lessing | Under My Skin

Gottfried is Doris' second husband, and the father of Peter, Doris' third child. Gottfried is born in Russia, and raised in Germany by his German parents. Doris meets Gottfried through her Communist party connections in Southern Rhodesia, and when Gottfried emigrates back to Germany after his divorce with Doris, he becomes a major player in the East German political communist party. He is murdered by terrorists in Africa many years later, in 1979.