Carl von Ossietzky Medal

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Awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Medal 2014
Awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Medal in 2008

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

Web links

Commons : Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medaille  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In- house communication. Re: "World stage" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1978, pp. 3 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Werner Stein: In memory of Kurt Grossmann , in: Die Menschenrechte, ed. International League for Human Rights, Berlin 1973, p. 11ff
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. ↑ http://ilmr.de/verleihungen-carl-von-ossietzky-medaille
  5. ↑ http://ilmr.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/SatzungLiga110328.pdf , read online on August 10, 2015
  6. ↑ Award of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal 2008 - press release. International League for Human Rights, December 5, 2008, accessed October 2, 2009 .
  7. ↑ Christian Jakob: Unbending friend. the daily newspaper , July 19, 2009, accessed on July 20, 2009 .
  8. ^ Awarding of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal 2009 - press release. International League for Human Rights, July 17, 2009, accessed July 20, 2009 .
  9. ^ Award of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal 2010 - press kit. International League for Human Rights, December 11, 2010, accessed December 12, 2010 .
  10. ↑ Documentary: Award of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal to Peter Lilienthal , Filmwerkstatt Münster, August 20, 2013