Georg Elser Prize

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Special stamp for the 100th birthday of Georg Elser from 2003

The Georg Elser Prize is a prize for moral courage and civil disobedience to ruling state power . It is named after Georg Elser , who carried out an assassination attempt on Hitler and almost the entire Nazi leadership in 1939 .

According to the original statute decided by several Elser initiatives, award winners can only be:

  • Individuals (in justified exceptional cases also representatives of initiatives) who have distinguished themselves through moral courage, civil disobedience and fearless action against the ruling state .
  • People who, like Georg Elser, recognized early on "where the journey should go" and who vigorously opposed a dominant, cynical, destructive trend.
  • People who, following their conscience, take responsibility on behalf of the silent majority, even risk their existence in order to avoid the worst, in order to enforce what has been recognized as law against officially valid law.
  • People who, despite globalization euphoria and fear of terrorism, show that it is possible, even necessary, to swim against the current, to take the side of the weak, the disadvantaged and the oppressed and do something.

The prize was determined every two years from 2001 to 2007 by the jury set out in the statute ( German Resistance Memorial Center , Georg Elser Initiative Munich, Georg Elser Working Group Heidenheim , Georg Elser Initiative Bremen and Georg Elser Initiative Berlin) Endowed with 5,000 euros.

In 2009 and 2011, the prize was awarded by the Georg Elser Initiative in Munich, bypassing the institutions responsible according to the statute, and in 2009 without the stipulated endowment of 5,000 euros.

In 2012, the Munich city council parliamentary groups of the SPD and the Greens submitted an application that the prize should be awarded by the city of Munich in the future. In this context it became known that Hella Schlumberger from the Georg Elser Initiative Munich had the name “Georg Elser Prize” registered as a word mark at the German Patent and Trademark Office in 2009 . On November 22, 2012, the Culture Committee of the City of Munich approved the funds for the award of a Georg Elser Prize by the City of Munich from 2013, after which the prize was awarded for the first time on November 4, 2013 by the City of Munich. This finally ended the originally joint project of the Elser initiatives.

Award winners

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Statute of the Georg Elser Prize . Last change: Berlin February 17, 2007. Accessed November 24, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Georg Elser Working Group Heidenheim : Georg Elser Prize . Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ City council groups SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen – rosa liste: Application dated May 30, 2012 (PDF; 55 kB). Retrieved November 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ German Patent and Trademark Office : Information on the trademark 302009060096 (PDF; 57 kB) . Retrieved November 24, 2013.
  5. ^ City council faction Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen-rosa liste: The Georg Elser Prize will be awarded by the city in future . Retrieved November 24, 2013.
  6. ↑ a b Bayerischer Rundfunk : Georg Elser Prize honors film against the law ( Memento from November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  7. ^ A b Georg Elser Initiative Munich: Georg Elser Prize . Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  8. ^ Georg Elser Prize of the City of Munich for Angelika Lex on nachrichten-muenchen.com. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
  9. ↑ Honor for an Inconvenient , Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 9, 2017
  10. ↑ https://ru.muenchen.de/2019/213/Georg-Elser-Preis-fuer-Seenotretter-Michael-Buschheuer-88036