Ján Cibuľa

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Ján Cibuľa (born January 7, 1932 in Klenovec , Czechoslovakia ; † August 18, 2013 in Bern ) was a Czechoslovak- Swiss doctor and minority politician. He belonged to the Roma ethnic group .

Life

Ján Cibuľa was a native of Slovakia from Rome, son of the violinist Ján Cibuľa. His mother Irène geb. Bikes, came from Hungary. He is said to have understood himself as a “Hungarian gypsy”. He said he led a Roma protest march in his village on May 1st at the age of fourteen . Cibula studied medicine in Bratislava from 1951 to 1957 and worked in the GDR from 1961 to 1967 , first as an assistant doctor and later as a senior physician at the Berlin Charité . In 1968 he was one of the initiators for the establishment of the Slovak association organization of Svaz Cikánů-Romů (Association of Gypsies-Roma) and its magazine Romen .

After the Warsaw Pact troops marched into the CSSR in August 1968 , he decided to leave his homeland and settle in Switzerland as a doctor. From 1973 to 2001 he ran a doctor's practice in the city of Bern. In 1985 he was naturalized in Bern . He lived and then worked in Blumenstein in the canton of Bern . There he came into contact with Swiss Yeniche through the Bernese mythologist Sergius Golowin . He pursued the concern to unite the Roma worldwide and saw in the Yeniche a branch of the worldwide Roma movement. In 1971 he took part in the 1st Roma World Congress in London. Through him, a delegation of the Yeniche took part in an international meeting of Roma in Brussels in 1977. In 1978 the International Romani Union was founded in Geneva. The founding congress elected Cibula as the association's first president. During his presidency in 1979, the UN's Economic and Social Council recognized the IRU as a non-governmental organization with consultative status. From 1977 to 1990 Cibula was also a member of the board of directors of the Landstrasse bicycle cooperative .

Honors

For his work in the service of the global Roma movement, he received the Culture Prize of the Canton of Bern in 1985 and in 2001 a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Združenie česko-slovenských Rómov v Kanade (Association of Czech and Slovak Roma in Canada). On January 2nd, 2020 Jan Cibula was posthumously awarded the Ľudovít-Štúr-Order , 1st class by the Slovak government.

literature

  • Miro Drom - My way. In: Scharotl (newspaper of the Radgenossenschaft der Landstrasse). No. 3, September 3, 1995.
  • Thomas Acton, Ilona Klimova: The International Romani Union. In: Will Guy (Ed.): Between past and future: The Roma of Central and Eastern Europe. University of Hertfordshire Press, Hertfordshire 2001, ISBN 1-902806-07-7 , pp. 157-219 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Bernhard Schär: ... if we don't want to be gypsies anymore, but Roma! Roma elites of the post-war period between attempted representation of interests and the temptations of the gypsy discourse. Licensed thesis, University of Bern, 2003.
  • Willi Wottreng : Gypsy chief. From the child of the country road to the spokesman for travelers - the fate of Robert Huber. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-280-06121-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leading Roma representative Ján Cibuľa passes away , romea.cz, August 19, 2013, accessed on August 24, 2013.
  2. ↑ Willi Wottreng (see literature), pp. 43, 51 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Willi Wottreng (see literature), p. 52 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ a b c Interview with Ján Cibuľa. In: Miro Drom - My way. In: Scharotl (newspaper of the Radgenossenschaft der Landstrasse). No. 3, September 3, 1995.
  5. ↑ Pavel Pečínka, Co přinesl rok 1968 českým Romům , online at romea.cz / ...
  6. ↑ All information in this section according to: Willi Wottreng (see literature), pp. 43, 52, 192, 196.
  7. ^ Bernhard Schär: Jan Cibula. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 27, 2013 , accessed July 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Extract from the HR register, free of charge, can be obtained by email
  9. ↑ Zomrel Ján Cibuľa, ktorý sa zaslúžil o uznanie Rómov (obituary), online at: aktuellity.sk / ... ( Memento from July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ https://newsnow.tasr.sk/policy/caputova-presents-state-awards-to-20-persons/
personal data
SURNAME Cibuľa, Ján
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cibula, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak-Swiss doctor and minority politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Klenovec , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH 18th August 2013
Place of death Bern , Switzerland