Hamburg Foundation for the Politically Persecuted

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The Hamburg Foundation for the Politically Persecuted , based in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is a non-governmental organization with a non-profit character. It grants a one-year scholarship to people who publicly stand up for freedom and justice and are therefore politically persecuted in their countries . It is their concern to be a refuge for the politically persecuted and to give them the opportunity to raise their voices without threat.

history

The Hamburg Foundation for the Politically Persecuted was founded on September 12, 1986 by Mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi . The basic idea is formulated in the statute: “In memory of the suffering of political opponents of the Nazi regime, in an effort to help people who are exposed to political persecution to take responsibility for upholding human rights and those who suffer from resistance Had to endure oppression and torture. "

Since its inception, the foundation has offered refuge to 130 journalists, writers, poets, painters, photographers, lawyers, human rights activists and sometimes their families (as of 2012). At your invitation and under your protection, they can recover from immediate danger and come to rest. Many of the guests had been threatened with death, persecuted, arrested or tortured in their home country. During the one-year stay, the foundation provides housing, support and livelihood. It supports the scholarship holders in their political, artistic, scientific or journalistic work and connects them with politicians, the media, other foundations, human rights organizations and the German public. There are five guests per year who are acutely threatened.

Guests

The first guest was the poet Nisamedtin Akhmetov , who had previously been interned in Siberia for 18 years . Other guests were the Algerian writer Hamid Skif , the Azeri human rights activist Leyla Yunusova, the Chechen photographer Musa Sadulajev and the Kurdish human rights lawyer Osman Aydin. In 2002, the foundation offered protection to the Tunisian human rights activist Sihem Bensedrine , whose activities contributed to the overthrow of the Tunisian ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali .

Chair and funding

According to the foundation statutes, the first chairman is always the incumbent Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, currently Peter Tschentscher . Honorary Chairman is the founding father and first mayor a. D. Klaus von Dohnanyi . The former First Mayor Ole von Beust is the managing director. The managing director is the philologist Martina Bäurle. The foundation's work is financed by private donors and support from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Jan Philipp Reemtsma provided the share capital .

literature

  • Anniversary band Voices for Freedom. , Twenty years of the Hamburg Foundation for the Politically Persecuted with ten selected portraits of Foundation guests, publisher: Hamburg Foundation for the Politically Persecuted, December 2006
  • Sihem Bensedrine with Omar Mestiri Despots on Europe's doorstep: why the security craze fuels extremism. Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88897-397-X .
  • Alhierd Bacharevic: The magpie on the gallows. Leipziger Literaturverlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-86660-104-8
  • Hamid Skif: Dear Mr. President. Verlag Edition Köln, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-936791-00-7
  • Chechnya forgotten children, Andrea Jeska (text), Musa Sadulajew (photos), Brendow 2007, ISBN 3-86506-189-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva Eusterhus: protective castle for the brave. welt.de from September 13, 2011 , accessed on March 1, 2012
  2. ↑ Scholz pays tribute to the foundation for the politically persecuted. Abendblatt.de of September 13, 2011 (fee required) , accessed on March 2, 2012
  3. ↑ jz: For the 20th anniversary of the foundation. amnesty-meinungsfreiheit.de of September 12, 2006 ( memento of October 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Jörg Degenhardt: Conversation with Martina Bäurle, dradio.de from September 12, 2011 , accessed on March 2, 2012
  5. ↑ Nina Schulz: The only witness. sueddeutsche.de of December 26, 2006 , accessed on March 1, 2012
  6. ↑ Andrea Böhm: Interview with Sihem Bensedrine on zeit.de from January 21, 2012 , accessed on March 1, 2012
  7. ↑ Eva Eusterhus: In Hamburg I was allowed to feel free. Sihem Bensedrine on the situation in her home country, welt.de of January 18, 2012 , accessed on March 2, 2012