Active for democracy and tolerance

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The logo of the BfDT, which awards the prize annually

Active for Democracy and Tolerance is a tolerance prize that has been awarded by the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance since 2001 for projects that address xenophobia , racism and anti-Semitism in Germany. There will be prizes, each 2,000 to 5,000 € cash-strapped smaller initiatives and groups and individuals promoted .

In 2006, prizes totaling € 120,000 were awarded to 63 projects. 330 initiatives took part in the competition.

criticism

In 2001, Der Rechts Rand , a magazine that was classified by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as an “organization- independent left-wing extremist publication”, received a monetary prize of DM 10,000 . This was criticized by the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in December 2004 in a major inquiry .

In 2007 the honorary prize for moral courage was awarded to a seventeen-year-old girl from Mittweida who claimed to have protected a small child from neo-Nazis , whereupon the neo-Nazis carved a swastika on her hip. At this point in time, the Chemnitz public prosecutor's office was already investigating suspicion of faking a criminal offense , after it turned out that the incident was fictitious and the girl had inflicted the injury on herself. The laudator Cornelie Sonntag-Wolgast , former Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of the Interior then stated that it was primarily a matter of "praising civil courage and not the question of whether the girl had inflicted this injury on herself".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Competitions of the BfDT 2011-2014. In: Website of the “Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance” (www.buendnis-toleranz.de). Retrieved February 7, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Matthias Meisner: Zero tolerance for red cells. In: Der Tagesspiegel (www.tagesspiegel.de). December 18, 2004, accessed February 7, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Printed matter 15/4590. ( PDF ) German Bundestag , December 14, 2004, accessed on February 7, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Sabine Rückert : Criminal Justice: Nothing but the untruth. In: Die Zeit (www.zeit.de). April 7, 2008, accessed February 7, 2015 .