Annette Barthelt Foundation

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The Annette Barthelt Foundation is a German foundation for the promotion of terrorism prevention based in Kiel .

The foundation currently has 24 members and is made up of members of marine research, business and politics. The German Society for Marine Research is also a member of the foundation. The chairmen are Wolf-Christian Dullo , Uwe Piatkowski and Andreas Wöhrmann. The foundation bears the name in memory of the victims of the attack in Djibouti in 1987 , Annette Barthelt , Daniel Reinschmidt, Marco Buchalla and Hans-Wilhelm Halbeisen. The young scientists were killed by a bomb attack on March 18, 1987 shortly before their marine science expedition to the Indian Ocean.

On December 12, 2003 the Foundation's Citizenship Prize went to the author Udo Ulfkotte . Before starting his journalistic work in right-wing and Islamophobic media, Ulfkotte spent a long time studying the phenomenon of terrorism as editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . At the time, the Annette Barthel Foundation recognized him for this. In the course of his later career, Ulfkotte became known to a larger audience as a speaker at Pegida and an author in right-wing populist media.

aims

According to its own statements, the aim of the foundation is to publicly present the problem of terrorism and its consequences for those affected and for society. The foundation aims to achieve this by recognizing significant contributions and activities that deal with the issue of terrorism.

The second goal is to reward outstanding work by young German oceanographers presented after a research trip.

Citizenship Award

Since 1993, the foundation has been awarding a “Citizen's Prize” at irregular intervals for a significant contribution to “dealing with violence and terrorism”.

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