Plaque of honor of the Federation of Expellees

The plaque of honor of the Federation of Expellees is the highest award of the Federation of Expellees (BdV). It has been awarded by the BdV since 1962 to personalities from politics, the church and public life as well as to institutions who, in the opinion of the BdV , have rendered services to the displaced .

Award winners

Carriers of the honor plaque of the Federation of Expellees are: 1962 Paul Löbe , former President of the Reichstag D. Rudolf Lodgman von Auen Herbert Kraus Friedrich Trout 1963 Herbert Girgensohn , theologian Heinrich Rogge Rudolf von Laun , international lawyer Adolf Kindermann , auxiliary bishop 1964 Konrad Adenauer Ernst Paul , member of the Bundestag Walter von Keudell , former Reich Minister D. Franz Thedieck , former State Secretary D. 1965 Wolfgang Jaenicke , ambassador ret. D. Kurt Urbanek , District Administrator a. D. Georg Baur , Honorary President of the Farmers' Association of Expellees 1966 Heinrich Maria Janssen , Bishop of Hildesheim Peter Paul Nahm , State Secretary Gerhard Gülzow , Senior Consistory Pastor Carl Brummack , Oberlandeskirchenrat i. R. Pastor 1967 Wenzel Jaksch , Member of the Bundestag, BdV President, Postum 1968 Theodor Veiter , international lawyer Friedrich Klein , international lawyer Fritz Münch , international lawyer 1969 Boris Meissner , Eastern lawyer and historian Gotthold Rhode , historian Otto Ulitz , spokesman for the Upper Silesian LM 1970 Kai-Uwe von Hassel , President of the German Bundestag Fritz Pirkl , Minister of State Axel Springer , publisher Reinhold Rehs , spokesman for the East Prussian Landsmannschaft, BdV President 1971 Karl Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg , politician 1972 Karl Kern 1973 Monsignor Wilhelm Scheperjans 1974 Edmund Rehwinkel , Former President of the German Farmers Association (DBV) Franz Bohm Helmut Gossing , Posthumous, State Secretary ret. D. 1975 Alfred Seidl , State Secretary Heinrich Windelen , former Federal Minister D. Heinz Burneleit , publicist 1976 Otto von Habsburg-Lothringen 1977 Bernhard Stasiewski , historian Theodor Schieder , historian Josef Joachim Menzel , historian 1978 Harald Kruska Josef Stingl , chairman of the Sudeten German Ackermann congregation Matthias Walden , Eugen Wilhelm Baron von Saß, publicist 1979 Gustav Hacker Minister of State a. D., Posthumous Werner Marienfeld , pastor Wendelin Siebrecht , pastor 1980 Otto Kimminich , international lawyer Gottfried Zieger , international lawyer 1981 Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia Dieter Blumenwitz , international lawyer Hans Schütz , former Minister of State D. 1982 Heinz Rudolf Fritsche , journalist Herbert Marzian , Managing Director of the "Göttingen Working Group" 1983 Alexander Evertz , pastor Hubert Thienel , prelate 1984 Helmut Kohl 1985 Alfred Dregger , chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag Franz Josef II , Prince of and for Liechtenstein 1986 Friedrich Zimmermann , Federal Minister

1987 Walter Becher , former spokesman for the Sudeten German LM Johannes Otto , editor-in-chief 1988 Franz Josef Strauss , Bavarian Prime Minister 1989 Karl Carstens , former Federal President 1990 Herbert Fleissner , publisher Hans von Keler , regional bishop i. R. Gerhard Pieschl , auxiliary bishop 1991 Reinhold George , superintendent Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder , Minister of State 1992 Franz Kroppenstedt , State Secretary Gebhard Glück , Minister of State Georg Brunner , international lawyer 1993 Werenfried van Straaten , Father 1994 Theodor Oberländer , former Federal Minister D. 1995 Herbert Czaja , Honorary President of the Association of Expellees 1996 Franz Neubauer , former Minister of State D. 1997 Alfred-Maurice de Zayas , international lawyer and historian 1998 Joachim Cardinal Meisner , Archbishop 1999 Lennart Meri , President of Estonia 2000 Herbert Hupka , Honorary Chairman of the Silesian Landsmannschaft Rudolf Wagner , signatory of the charter of German expellees Friedrich Walter, Honorary Chairman of the State Association of North Rhine-Westphalia of the BdV Rudolf Wollner , Honorary Chairman of the State Association of Hesse of the BdV 2001 Cultural Foundation of the German Expellees Adalbert Kurzja OSB, Dept. Tilman Zülch , General Secretary of the Society for Threatened Peoples 2002 Tracing service of the German Red Cross Church tracing service 2003 Erwin Teufel , Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg 2004 Bohumil Doležal , political scientist 2005 German War Graves Commission 2006 Peter Glotz , posthumously 2007 Barbara Stamm , former Minister of State D. Katalin Szili , President of the Hungarian Parliament 2008 Robert Zollitsch , Archbishop, Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference Heinz Schön , author 2009 Otto Schily , Federal Minister of the Interior a. D. 2010 Klaus Johannis , Lord Mayor of Hermannstadt / Sibiu, Romania 2011 Wolfgang Freiherr von Stetten Roland Koch , former Prime Minister D. 2012 Rudolf Grulich 2013 Horst Möller 2014 Guido Knopp Angela Merkel , Federal Chancellor (plaque of honor in gold) 2015 Free State of Bavaria State of Hesse Free State of Saxony 2016 Grand Dean Prelate Franz Jung , former visitor of the County of Glatz 2017 Fritz Wittmann , former President of the Association of Expellees 2018 Helge Klassohn , former EKD representative for questions relating to repatriates and those who were expelled from their homeland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bearer of the plaque of honor of the Federation of Expellees
2. ↑ Marc-P. Halatsch: BdV Federal Assembly met in Berlin. Honor plaque to Helge Klassohn. Association of Displaced Persons, December 7, 2018, accessed on August 30, 2019 .