Carl von Ossietzky Medal
The Carl von Ossietzky Medal is an undoped award given by the Berlin International League for Human Rights Association. It is awarded to people and initiatives who, in the opinion of the association, have worked in a special way for the realization of human rights .
The medal is named after the publicist, pacifist, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Carl von Ossietzky , who was a board member of the German League for Human Rights and who died in 1938 as a result of imprisonment in the National Socialist concentration camp .
history
The association feels committed to the "incorruptible spirit and its commitment to peace and human rights " of Carl von Ossietzky. Ossietzky, publicist during the Weimar Republic and editor of the magazine Die Weltbühne had been a member of the German League for Human Rights since 1920 and was its chairman until 1933. As the editor in charge, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for "betraying military secrets" in the spectacular Weltbühne trial in 1931 for an article that revealed the secret rearmament of the Reichswehr .
Since 1962, the International League for Human Rights has awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Medal annually to people and groups who, in their opinion , have made a special contribution to the defense of human rights . The first winner of the coin should result of the Spiegel affair of the mirror -Herausgeber Rudolf Augstein be. However, the latter refused the award "because it was based on misunderstandings". In 1972 Kurt Grossmann was a candidate for the Carl von Ossietzky Medal, but died before the award date.
In 2010 it was not possible to hand over a medal for the first time, as the award winner Mordechai Vanunu was not allowed to leave Israel and he wished to receive the award personally.
Carriers of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal are honorary members of the International League for Human Rights with all the rights of a full member according to § 2 (c) of the association statutes.
The medal is not identical to the Carl von Ossietzky Medal awarded by the GDR Peace Council in 1963-70 and has nothing to do with the Carl von Ossietzky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics in Oldenburg.
Award winners
- 1962: Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt
- 1963: Rudolf Küstermeier
- 1964: Joseph Wulf
- 1965: Heinrich Grüber
- 1966: Fritz von Unruh
- 1967: Günter Grass
- 1968: Kai Hermann
- 1969: Robert MW Kempner
- 1970: Walter Fabian
- 1971: Walter Schulze for the International Sonnenberg Working Group
- 1972: Carola Stern - Amnesty International
- 1973: Helmut Gollwitzer
- 1974: Heinrich Böll
- 1975: Heinrich Albertz
- 1976: Betty Williams , Mairead Corrigan , Ciaran McKeown for Peace People , Ireland
- 1977: Willi Bleicher , Dr. Helmut Simon
- 1978: Rudolf Bahro
- 1979: Fritz Eberhard , Axel Eggebrecht
- 1980: Ingeborg Drewitz
- 1981: Gert Bastian
- 1982: William Borm
- 1983: Heinz Brandt , Martin Niemöller
- 1984: Günter Wallraff
- 1985: Lea Rosh
- 1986: Erich Fried
- 1987: Eberhard Carl , Eckart Rottka , Imme Storsberg - judges and prosecutors for peace
- 1988: Klaus Bednarz
- 1989: Antje Vollmer , Friedrich Schorlemmer
- 1990: Konrad Weiß
- 1991: Liselotte Funcke
- 1992: Wolfgang Richter , Thomas Euting , Dietmar Schumann , Thomas Höper , Jürgen Podzkiewitz , Jochen Schmidt - ZDF editorial staff license plate D
- 1993: Aziz Nesin , Karl Finke
- 1994: Volker Ludwig and the Grips-Theater Berlin
- 1995: Jacob Finci for La Benevolencija; Hans Koschnick
- 1996: The Saturday women of Istanbul
- 1997: Hannes Heer for the team of the extermination war exhibition . Crimes of the Wehrmacht from 1941 to 1944
- 1998: Madjiguène Cissé and Les Collectifs des SANS-PAPIERS
- 1999: Simin Behbahani and Monireh Baradaran
- 2000: Brandenburg Refugee Initiative , Association of Victims' Perspective and Tagesspiegel editor Frank Jansen
- 2001: Federal Ecumenical Working Group on Asylum in the Church
- 2002: Eberhard Radczuweit and Marina Schubarth for their work at KONTAKTE-KOHTAKTbI eV, association for contacts with countries of the former Soviet Union
- 2003: The publicist Gerit von Leitner and the citizens' initiative FREIe HEIDe
- 2004: Percy MacLean , Esther Béjarano , Peter Gingold , Martin Löwenberg
- 2005: Mechthild Niesen-Bolm and Inge Wannagat and the leisure and advice center Die Arche - Christian children's and youth organization in Berlin
- 2006: Attorney Bernhard Docke and Bundeswehr major Florian Pfaff
- 2007: Legal team / emergency lawyer service of the G8 protests in Heiligendamm (jointly organized by the Republican Lawyers Association , as well as the regional criminal defense associations and investigative committees)
- 2008: The Palestinian Citizens Committee of Bil'in Village and the Anarchists Against the Wall
- 2009: Mouctar Bah and Stefan Schmidt , captain of the Cap Anamur
- 2010: Mordechai Vanunu
- 2011: no award
- 2012: Peter Lilienthal
- 2013: no award
- 2014: Edward Snowden , Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald
- 2015: no award
- 2016: SOS Méditerranée and Kai Wiedenhöfer
- 2018: Leyla Îmret and Ottmar Miles-Paul
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ In- house communication. Re: "World stage" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1978, pp. 3 ( online ).
- ↑ Werner Stein: In memory of Kurt Grossmann , in: Die Menschenrechte, ed. International League for Human Rights, Berlin 1973, p. 11ff
- ↑ Press release of December 8, 2010 - The first NOT award of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal in 49 years. Mordechai Vanunu is not allowed to travel to Berlin. (PDF; 110 kB) International League for Human Rights, December 8, 2010, p. 1 , accessed on December 12, 2010 .
- ↑ http://ilmr.de/verleihungen-carl-von-ossietzky-medaille
- ↑ http://ilmr.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/SatzungLiga110328.pdf , read online on August 10, 2015
- ↑ Award of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal 2008 - press release. International League for Human Rights, December 5, 2008, accessed October 2, 2009 .
- ↑ Christian Jakob: Unbending friend. the daily newspaper , July 19, 2009, accessed on July 20, 2009 .
- ^ Awarding of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal 2009 - press release. International League for Human Rights, July 17, 2009, accessed July 20, 2009 .
- ^ Award of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal 2010 - press kit. International League for Human Rights, December 11, 2010, accessed December 12, 2010 .
- ↑ Documentary: Award of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal to Peter Lilienthal , Filmwerkstatt Münster, August 20, 2013