Arno Esch Prize
The Arno Esch Prize of the Association of Liberal Academics (VLA) has been commemorating the Rostock law student Arno Esch and five fellow students who were sentenced to death by the Soviet judiciary in 1951 and shot. The prize is awarded every two years on the basis of a foundation by the long-standing President of the Association, Peter Menke-Glückert . The award is intended to commemorate the courage of all those who, in liberal student groups, resisted the Stalinist dictatorship and the conformity of universities in the Soviet occupation zone and in the GDR .
The Arno Esch Prize is awarded to individual students or student initiatives and associations. Criteria include the special exercise of citizenship rights in the university sector, moral courage when advocating for civil rights, a cosmopolitan, interdisciplinary degree program, practicing, initiating and practicing "public virtue" in the university and maintaining new forms of consensus-building scientific disputes in public, free speech.
The prize is endowed with € 1,200.
Award winners
| year | Award winners |
|---|---|
| 1990 | JuliA, the GDR's young liberal campaign |
| 1992 | Thilo Wolf and Matthias Bellmann, students at the University of Rostock |
| 1994 | Dirk Planert, journalism student at the University of Siegen |
| 1996 | Bayreuth Initiative for Economic Ecology eV |
| 1998 | Weimar student initiative "Home instead of Chernobyl" |
| 2002 | Project group Israel-Palestine of the Evangelical Student Congregation Koblenz “For courageous peace campaigns in the Middle East”, handed over to student pastors Martin Becker and Nadine Richter |
| 2004 | IHI-EUREGIO Student Initiative Environment of the International University Institute Zittau "For a lived, reunified Europe by practicing public civic virtues", presented to Darius Szecowka (Poland), Iveta Martinkova (Czech Republic) and Eva Salzbrenner (Germany) |
| 2006 | Student initiative "expedition welt" of the private university Witten-Herdecke "For global citizenship in self-designed practical tests of sustainable development", presented to Dirk Boeker |
| 2008 | the Heidelberg group of the student action network of the Amnesty international university groups "For the commitment to human rights worldwide also in the university environment" (C. Schenzel), presented to Benjamin Titze |
| 2010 | the initiativeArbeiterKind.de founded by Ms. Katja Urbatsch to promote university studies for non-academic children |
| 2012 | the "Internet initiative www.fdp-liberte.de" "for instigating public virtue of living civil liberties in practiced grassroots democracy" |
| 2014 | the student initiative "Greening the University" "for instigating the public virtue of lived civil liberties in grassroots democracy" |
| 2016 | the " Kiron University " and its founders Vincent Zimmer and Markus Kreßler |
| 2018 | the non-profit organization " WhyEurope ". |
jury
The award is based on the recommendation of a seven-member jury.
- Günther Heydemann (Chair)
- Günter Kröber
- Heike Moser
- Volker Erhard
- Katja Urbatsch
- Martin Worch
- Harald Hofmann
A previous member of the jury was Klaus Hansen .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Arno Esch Prize - Association of Liberal Academics . In: Association of Liberal Academics . ( liberale-akademiker.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).
- ↑ Bayreuth Initiative receives the Arno Esch Prize | Butterfly. Retrieved January 22, 2018 (German).
- ^ History . In: oikos Bayreuth eV (Ed.): Bayreuth . ( oikos-international.org [accessed January 22, 2018]).
- ↑ sz-online: Free use rewarded. Sächsische Zeitung - online, accessed on January 22, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Witten students recognized as "citizens of the world". Retrieved January 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Vision of the World Foundation: Great. World Class Foundation, accessed January 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Via the ArbeiterKind.de network. ArbeiterKind.de network, accessed on January 22, 2018 .
- ^ Peter Menke-Glückert: On the awarding of the Arno Esch Prize 2012. Accessed on January 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Laudatory speech. by Peter Menke-Glückert Chairman of the Jury Arno Esch Prize - PDF. Retrieved January 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Press review | StudierendenInitiative Greening the University eV Accessed on January 22, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Commitment to the right to education recognized . In: portal liberal . ( liberale.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).
- ^ Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom - Shop. Retrieved May 20, 2018 .