Calls for help from over there (club)

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Calls for help from over there was an association founded by Claus Peter Clausen and Gerhard Löwenthal , which campaigned for the human rights of GDR citizens.

founding

As a result of the discontinuation of the series of the same name as part of the ZDF magazine , the association with its headquarters in Lippstadt was founded.

activity

The association was supposed to continue the activities of the discontinued series of broadcasts, i.e. to clarify human rights violations by the regime in East Berlin and also provide concrete help.

To inform the West German population, a quarterly magazine with the title " Calls for help from over. Newspaper for the victims of the communist dictatorship in the GDR " was published from 1978 onwards, which was edited by Clausen, a journalist from Lippstadt . After the end of the GDR, the magazine continued to appear, sometimes at irregular intervals. According to her own statement, she wanted to expose the inadequate coming to terms with the injustice that had occurred in the GDR and give the victims of communism a voice. The last issue came out in 2009.

Organization and board

The chairman was first Gerhard Löwenthal and later Claus Peter Clausen. Because of the risk of infiltration, it was deliberately avoided to accept many full members and was limited to a small number of staunch Democrats.

In addition to the first chairman, Gerhard Löwenthal u. a. nor Fritz Schenk as vice chairman, Claus Peter Clausen, Friedrich Mönckmeier and Helmut Kamphausen on.

Fritz Schenk was brought into the editorial office of the ZDF magazine by Löwenthal because he came directly from inside the GDR leadership, because before he fled to the West he was the secretary of Bruno Leuschner , the deputy prime minister of the GDR.

Claus Peter Clausen took part in calls for help from over there because Heinz Vielain , then Bonn's chief correspondent for Welt am Sonntag , brought him together with Gerhard Löwenthal and they both shared the same political convictions.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://gateway-bayern.de/BV023365968
  2. ^ Claus Peter Clausen, in: The black letter (Lippstadt), No. 20/2006, Notes special sheet