Claus-Peter Reisch

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Claus-Peter Reisch at the #hunted demonstration in Munich on July 22, 2018.

Claus-Peter Reisch (born April 17, 1961 in Munich ) is the skipper of the Lifeline , a trained automotive mechatronics technician and, as a skipper, holds a sports boat license . He became known through his work as the skipper of the Lifeline of Mission Lifeline , which picked up boat refugees from the Mediterranean and brought them to European ports.

Life

Reisch comes from Landsberg am Lech and runs an industrial agency for sanitary and heating products. During a vacation in Greece in 2015, he came into direct contact with the refugee crisis for the first time and decided to rescue refugees from the Mediterranean. Reisch describes himself as a "basically a conservative Bavarian" and was a long time voter of the CSU , which he regards as part of the " right spectrum ".

Mission Lifeline

Lifeline (2018)

In April 2017 Reisch started on his first mission in the Mediterranean for the Regensburg organization Sea-Eye .

After the Lifeline run by Reisch in June 2018 with 230 refugees rescued from distress at sea stayed for days on the Mediterranean, while Italy refused to moor the ship, it was finally allowed to call at a Maltese port.

On June 28, 2018, Reisch was arrested after arriving in a Maltese port and the ship was arrested. In the meantime, Reisch has been charged in Malta. He remained at large after paying a deposit of 10,000 euros, but was initially not allowed to leave the country. Reisch had to hand in his ID in court.

The reason given for Reisch's arrest and the setting of the lifeline was that the ship was not properly registered. Accordingly, the ship is sailing under the Dutch flag; the authorities there deny this. In addition, Reisch had ignored instructions from the Italian authorities to leave the rescue of the boat refugees to the Libyan coast guard . On July 11, 2018 it was announced that Reisch would be allowed to leave Malta temporarily from July 16, but would have to be back on the Mediterranean island on July 30 to continue the legal proceedings. If convicted, Reisch faced either a fine of 11,600 euros or a year in prison. Reisch himself sees the fixing of the ship as an attempt to draw a curtain on this drama that is happening in the Mediterranean . An expert confirmed the allegations against Reisch. The latter submitted a report to the court, which stated that no documents required for the sea rescue were presented on board the ship. Also, no documents were submitted that prove that the ship was registered with the Dutch shipping authorities, which means that the “Lifeline” is considered stateless .

Jan Böhmermann launched a donation campaign for the lifeline crew , which among other things is used to cover litigation and expert costs. The campaign brought in just under 200,000 euros. A donation campaign started by Klaas Heufer-Umlauf brought in another 150,000 euros.

On July 22, 2018, Reisch was a speaker at the demo against the shift to the right . There he demanded the resumption of the rescue mission in the Mediterranean. In his speech, he also turned to Chancellor Angela Merkel with the request to convene a conference with Archbishop Reinhard Marx , the Protestant regional bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm and four non-governmental organizations in order to find a solution so that the sea rescuers can function under the German flag. The Archbishopric of Munich and Freising under Archbishop Marx finally donated 50,000 euros to the Mission Lifeline in October.

In mid-December 2018, a good five months after the start of the trial, Reisch was able to testify in court in Valletta for the first time and confirmed in a one-and-a-half hour hearing that he could not detect any errors in the registration of the ship. Reisch had previously traveled to the island state of Malta for free because of the legal proceedings . The trial continued on January 11, 2019 and a verdict is awaited. In mid-May 2019, Reisch was sentenced to pay a fine of 10,000 euros to local aid organizations for refugees and people in poverty. Reisch against the judgment of auditors engaged, since he believes that the lifeline was properly registered and therefore he is innocent.

Reisch was acquitted on January 7, 2020 on appeal.

At the end of August 2019, Reisch again set out for the sea area off the Libyan coast on the sports boat Eleonore flying the German flag. The aim is not to save migrants, but Reisch is obliged to help in emergencies, said a spokesman for Mission Lifeline. On August 26, he took in about 100 people whom he had rescued from a sinking boat 31 nautical miles off the coast of Libya.

In January 2020, Captain Reisch distanced himself from Mission Lifeline and announced that he would no longer drive any more missions. He rejects the "political agitation" of Mission Lifeline, many things are too " radical left " for him.

Awards

The parliamentary group of the BayernSPD decided on July 17, 2018 to award Reisch the Europe Prize. The reason given was that people like Reisch “keep the values ​​for which our community stands alive.” The award was presented on July 27, 2018 in the Bavarian state parliament by parliamentary group leader Markus Rinderspacher .

On July 28, 2017, Reisch stated in a video interview that Landsberg's Lord Mayor Mathias Neuner had contacted him to talk to Reisch about the award of the Landsberg Ring of Honor . Neuner stated that "awarding the prize to him would split the city council." City councilor Stefan Meiser from the ÖDP described Neuner's actions as "monstrous behavior."

In December 2018 Reisch was awarded the Human Rights Prize of the Austrian League for Human Rights .

On April 7, 2019, Reisch received the Lew Kopelew Prize together with the Mission Lifeline association .

Reisch received the Erich Kästner Prize 2020 endowed with 10,000 euros .

publication

  • The sea of ​​tears. Munich Publishing Group, 2019

Web links

Commons : Claus-Peter Reisch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dieter Schöndorfer: “You can't let them drown”. Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung , April 19, 2017, accessed on July 27, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b c d Sarah Serafini: 1 year imprisonment for 234 lives: an example should be made on this man. Watson.ch , July 26, 2018, accessed on July 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Jan Heidtmann: The lifesaver from Landsberg. Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 29, 2018, accessed on July 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Italy confirms: the rescue ship "Lifeline" is allowed to dock in Malta. Spiegel Online , June 26, 2018, accessed July 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Police interrogate “Lifeline” captain in Malta. Rheinische Post , June 28, 2018, accessed on July 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ "Lifeline" Kapitän in court: "That's disgusting." Tagesschau.de , July 2, 2018, accessed on July 27, 2018 .
  7. ↑ "Lifeline" Kapitän bail at large. Stern Online , July 2, 2018, accessed July 27, 2018 .
  8. ↑ German "Lifeline" Kapitän Reisch Malta allowed to leave. Zeit Online , July 11, 2018, accessed July 27, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Sea rescuer in court - "Lifeline" captain calls allegations "baseless". ZDFmediathek , July 30, 2018, accessed on July 30, 2018 .
  10. ↑ "LIFELINE" process: Experts reiterated accusations against German captain. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 30, 2018, accessed on July 30, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Böhmermann's campaign for “Lifeline” brings in 200,000 euros. Hamburger Morgenpost , July 9, 2018, accessed on July 27, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Max Muth: "#ausgehetzt" in Munich: The common denominator of tens of thousands of demonstrators. Bayerischer Rundfunk , July 23, 2018, accessed on August 20, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Stephanie Millong: # hurried: Lifeline captain Reisch wants to sail under the German flag. Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, July 22, 2018, accessed on July 27, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Alexander Kissler: Cardinal Marx - The Sham Altruist. Cicero (magazine) , October 11, 2018, accessed December 30, 2019 .
  15. ↑ "Lifeline" Kapitän said first time in the process of Valletta. evangelisch.de, December 18, 2018, accessed December 27, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Patrick Guyton: Seotretter Claus-Peter Reisch: A captain with a mission. TAZ.de , December 26, 2018, accessed December 27, 2018 .
  17. ^ Rescue in the Mediterranean: "Lifeline" captain sentenced to 10,000 euros fine. Spiegel Online , May 14, 2019, accessed on May 23, 2019 .
  18. ^ Rescue in the Mediterranean: "Lifeline" captain takes action against payment of a fine. Spiegel Online, May 21, 2019, accessed on May 23, 2019 .
  19. ^ Rescue in the Mediterranean: acquittal for the German "Lifeline" captain . In: Spiegel Online . January 7, 2020 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 7, 2020]).
  20. ↑ "" Lifeline "Kapitän with new ship back in the Mediterranean way" Welt.de from August 24, 2019
  21. ↑ "" In the last second ": German ship saves 100 migrants from the Mediterranean" Focus from August 26, 2019
  22. ↑ Simone Gaul: "A lot is too radical left for me" . Time online . January 10, 2020. Accessed January 10, 2020.
  23. ^ Prize for Captain Reisch. Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 17, 2018, accessed on July 17, 2018 .
  24. ^ SPD award for "Lifeline" captain: "Practiced humanity". Welt Online , July 17, 2018, accessed July 27, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Gerald Modlinger, Stephanie Millonig, Dominic Wimmer: Does the mayor want to prevent the ring of honor for the "Lifeline" captain? Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, July 30, 2018, accessed on July 30, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Human Rights Prize - Austrian League for Human Rights. Retrieved December 9, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Human rights award for the captain of the rescue ship . Deutschlandfunk.de , accessed on December 9, 2018.
  28. ↑ Dresden Sea Rescue Mission Lifeline receives Peace Prize. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  29. ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: Lew Kopelew Prize for. Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 14, 2019, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  30. ↑ Sea rescuer Claus-Peter Reisch receives the Erich Kästner Prize. July 27, 2020, accessed July 30, 2020 .
  31. ↑ https://www.m-vg.de/riva/shop/article/17140-das-meer-der-traenen/
personal data
SURNAME Reisch, Claus-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German refugee aid worker
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich