Helmut Ziegner

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Helmut Ziegner (born August 20, 1921 in Berlin ; † July 5, 2006 there ) was a trained actor and RIAS employee living in Berlin . He established a foundation for the rehabilitation of prisoners and those released from prison as well as vulnerable and disadvantaged young people.

Helmut Ziegner with the well-known social worker Gertrud Staewen; 1971 in the Tegel prison

Life

In October 1948, the then 27-year-old actor and broadcaster took part in a theater performance by inmates of the Lehrter Strasse cell prison as an employee of the RIAS Berlin . There he was less impressed by the performance than by the desolate life of the prisoners. That is why he began collecting clothing for prisoners in 1948 in Berlin, which was in ruins. At the time, Berlin was a city through which streams of refugees passed, struggling with basic needs. Nobody had the nerve to stand up for prisoners at the time. At that time, Ziegner personally pulled a handcart on which he had mounted the “Clothing collection for released prisoners” sign across the Kurfürstendamm and promoted the good cause. He picked up prisoners at the gates of detention centers when they were released, looked after them, provided them with living space and jobs. A foundation emerged from this work, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007. It is mainly financed by grants and donations.

Awards

  • 1968: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1974: Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1977: Beccaria medal in gold
  • 1981: Ernst Reuter badge in silver
  • 1992: Large Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Foundation, endowment

Since a stay in prison, his work has focused on the " rehabilitation of prisoners and those released from prison, as well as vulnerable and disadvantaged young people". Since he was already involved in this area in the 1950s, he is known as the father of rehabilitation . He is the namesake of the Universal-Stiftung Helmut Ziegner , a foundation working in this direction and, in 2007, the namesake of a vocational gGmbH.

literature

  • Manfred Kappeler (1967): The youth hostel of the Universal-Stiftung Helmut Ziegner , in: Probation Aid 14 (1), pp. 32–35.
  • Karl Heinz Jürgen Nagel (Ed.) (2008): Helmut Ziegner - From Prison to Prison , Norderstedt: Books on Demand, ISBN 978-3-8370-4064-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profession as probation . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 7, 2009
  2. ↑ Anja Monz: 1957-2007, 50 years, Universal-Stiftung Helmut Ziegner , 2008 (PDF; 2.3 MB)
  3. ↑ Now I know what I want to be . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 14, 1999
  4. ↑ Wikipedia: WikiProjekt Bundesverdienstkreuz / 1974
  5. ↑ Beccaria Medal . Criminological Society
  6. ^ Claudia Schreyer: Helmut Ziegner , in: Neues Deutschland from November 6, 1992, accessed on November 22, 1992
  7. ↑ Helmut Ziegner . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 11, 2006
  8. ↑ Universal Foundation Helmut Ziegner
personal data
SURNAME Ziegner, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German man and founder, committed to rehabilitation
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 2006
Place of death Berlin