Garry Davis

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Garry Davis being expelled from the Netherlands before leaving for America.

Sol Gareth Davis (born July 27, 1921 in Bar Harbor , Maine , † July 24, 2013 in South Burlington , Vermont ) was an initially American , then stateless cosmopolitan , peace activist and initiator of the global citizenship movement . He was previously known as a film and theater actor.

Life

Studies, work and world war

Davis graduated from the Episcopal Academy in 1940 and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh . He later earned a Master of Arts in geo-dialectics from the East-West University of Brahma Vidya, Bangalore, India. Before starting his political career, Davis worked as a Hollywood actor and was a B-17 bomber pilot during the Second World War .

politics

On May 25, 1948, Davis renounced his US citizenship in Paris. He justified this step on the basis of his own actions as negative and the death of his brother Meyer Jr. Garry during the Second World War, because if there were no more nation states, no more wars would be waged.

When Davis learned that the next UN General Assembly would take place in Paris and that the meeting area designated for it would temporarily be considered international territory, he began to camp on it, under protective observation due to his father's notoriety in the international media. Without regular valid identification documents and consequently threatened with deportation by France as a stateless foreigner, he publicly asked, stressing that he was the first citizen of the world, world citizen No. 1, for asylum at the UN . After his arrest, the aim of which was to remove him from the meeting area, and his re-release, he demanded, along with storming a spectator balcony on the premises where the UN General Assembly was taking place, in a speech that was due to his re-arrest of Robert Sarrazac was ended, a world government for all citizens so that they could live in peace .

Due to the resonance of his arrest in the media Davis founded in January 1949, the Registry of World Citizens, the International Registry of World Citizens in Paris and began issuing identity documents to European war refugees with the aim to create a world governing body, and by this the greatest initiate nonviolent revolution in human history. In line with this, Davis visited various cities during a trip through France , which he tried to convince of his ideas. Exhausted from this task and burdened by the constant media presence, Davis resigned from the International Register of World Citizens in July 1949 and returned to the United States as a French immigrant.

On September 2, 1953, Davis founded after his frustrated efforts to visit Berlin as a stateless person and admission to a psychiatric hospital in England when he tried to get to Buckingham Palace for a personal with the British Queen Elizabeth II To conduct interview, followed by expulsion to the United States, the “World Government of Citizens”, in Ellsworth, Maine and in 1954 the “World Service Authority” (WSA) as the administrative authority for world identity cards, world marriage certificates and world passports .

In the years that followed, Davis devoted himself to convincing people and governments around the world that, in his view, war could only be prevented with the establishment of a single world government. Spreading this idea, he traveled to various countries as a stateless person, and was only given the "World Citizens' Pass No. 1". At the same time he began to write and published several books on his cause. In 1986 Davis ran in the Washington, DC mayoral election ; he received 585 votes as a candidate for the World Citizen Party. In 1988, during a lecture at Middlebury College , he announced his candidacy for President of the United States . Davis last appeared a few weeks before his death when he sent the Russian authorities a world passport intended for Edward Snowden .

family

Davis married Audrey Peters in 1950. The soon-to-be divorced marriage resulted in a daughter. It was rumored that Davis married Gloria Sandler shortly thereafter in a self-initiated ceremony in 1954. In the third marriage, after the divorce of the second marriage, Davis was in a relationship with Esther Peter. This marriage also ended in divorce in 1963. She in turn had three children.

factories

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Garry Davis: Profiles. In: blogger.com. Retrieved July 27, 2021 . Garry Davis: Views From My Space: So how did we get that way? In: worldservice.org. November 10, 2009, accessed July 27, 2021 . Katja Kullmann : world citizen number one. In: Tages-Anzeiger. December 30, 2012, archived from the original on January 5, 2013 ; accessed on July 27, 2021 .
  2. ^ A b Margalit Fox: Garry Davis, Man of No Nation Who Saw One World of No War, Dies at 91. In: The New York Times . July 28, 2013, archived from the original on November 11, 2018 ; accessed on July 27, 2021 (English).
  3. ↑ Garry Davis. In: Der Spiegel . 39/1949, September 21, 1949, accessed July 27, 2021 .
  4. ↑ a b c Susan Green: Passport to Fame? In: Seven Days . March 28, 2001, accessed July 27, 2021 .
  5. ^ A b c d e Marion Barry: Garry Davis. In: The Telegraph . November 23, 2014, accessed July 27, 2021 .
  6. ^ World Government of World Citizens: WSA Passport Acceptance - Visas on WSA Passports. In: worldservice.org. February 2021, accessed July 21, 2021 .
  7. ^ World Service Authority issued the world citizen passport to Edward Snowden. In: InSerbia.info. July 10, 2013, archived from the original on January 15, 2016 ; accessed on July 27, 2021 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Davis, Garry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davis, Sol Gareth
SHORT DESCRIPTION American, then stateless initiator of the global citizenship movement
BIRTH DATE July 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Bar Harbor , Maine
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 2013
PLACE OF DEATH South Burlington , Vermont