Julius Hirsch Prize

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The Julius Hirsch Prize is an award sponsored by the German Football Association (DFB). The DFB honors people and organizations who use their social position in a special way to advocate freedom , tolerance and humanity . The award commemorates the fate of the seven-time German national player Julius Hirsch , who was expelled from his club, the Karlsruhe FV , in 1933 because of his Jewish origins and murdered in Auschwitz in 1943 .

The award was launched on September 13, 2005. The occasion was the presentation of a historical study "Football under the swastika" by Nils Havemann , which deals with the role of the DFB in the time of National Socialism . With the foundation of the Julius Hirsch Prize, the DFB not only wants to commemorate the victims, but also set an example for the inviolability and human dignity. The vision was created by the Jewish football pioneer Walther Bensemann , who was also a founding member of the German Football Association - "People and peoples should be connected through football and bring about peace".

The prize is endowed with a total of 20,000 euros and is distributed proportionally to the three winners, depending on the placement. The executive committee of the DFB determined the first winner. Since then, a jury has decided on the award of the prize, which includes well-known personalities from sport, church, politics and society.

Since 2009 there has also been an honorary award for people from public life who, in the opinion of the jury, have proven to be particularly anti-discriminatory through their behavior or work.

Award winners

2005

2006

  • The ball doesn't care who kicks it e. V. from Gelsenkirchen for the organization of anti-racist street football tournaments during the 2006 World Cup and the work against racism and xenophobia in schools.
  • Fan project Dortmund e. V. for the “Kick racism out” campaign during the 2006 World Cup and the establishment of a learning center for disadvantaged young people.

2007

  • Oak Cross Nuremberg , the sports work of the Protestant youth , for the “1. Peace Run 2007 ”and the“ Streetsoccer Cup ”.
  • TuS Plettenberg for the "Julius Hirsch Cup 2007".
  • Special prize for the DSC fan project e. V. from Dresdner SC .

2008

2009

  • The initiative "Löwenfans gegen Rechts" from Munich is involved in the stadium, on the Internet and its magazine "Löwenmut" against discrimination, exclusion, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, sexism and homophobia in and around football.
  • The association Hintertorperspektiven e. V. from Jena , offers project and information afternoons to educate people about xenophobia and racism in schools and youth centers, arranges so-called “fan sponsorships” for resettlers and migrants.
  • The Hanover fan project as a member and consultant of the “96 fans against racism” working group, a concept for the integration of young people with a migration background into the stadiums in cooperation with the University of Hanover, youth centers and the police.

2010

  • SV Blau-Weiß Sedlitz , which has been in intensive dialogue with the local asylum seekers' home since it was founded twenty years ago and is involved in several initiatives against right-wing extremism.
  • The sports club Roter Stern Leipzig , which campaigns against any discrimination based on gender, origin or sexual preference.
  • The SV 06 taught for its extensive work, which includes advertising for organ donation, integration work in the youth departments as well as tutoring and application training.

2011

  • Youth initiative "Spiegelbild" of the Active Museum Spiegelgasse in Wiesbaden, exhibition "Kicker, Fighters and Legends - Jews in German Football" and the project "Search for traces on the ball" with Wiesbaden secondary school students.
  • "Graefenberger Sports Alliance" from eight football clubs against marches by neo-Nazis in Graefenberg .
  • Fan club "DoppelPass" of SV Waldhof Mannheim , actions against right-wing propaganda, z. B. Banner "Mood against Racism" in the stadium and radio show "Double Pass on Air".

2012

  • 1st prize: 1. FC Kaiserslautern fan project with an event program and stadium choreography as a reaction to anti-Semitic statements against the Israeli national player Itay Shechter .
  • 2nd prize: Initiative of the Berlin Police Section 22, which visited the Auschwitz concentration camp with young Hertha fans .
  • 3rd prize: Two fan clubs and the Eintracht Frankfurt fan project , who went on a trip to Auschwitz and carried out a film, music and reading program in memory of the Holocaust.

2013

  • 1st prize: The Hövelriege sports and youth club for organizing a club trip in 2012 to memorial sites in the Greek towns of Kalavrita and Distomo , where massacres by soldiers of the German Wehrmacht and the SS occurred in 1943 and 1944 .
  • 2nd prize: Ultras Nürnberg and 1. FC Nürnberg , memory of the Jewish club coach Jenő Konrád with a stadium choreography.
  • 3rd prize: SC Heuchelhof from Würzburg , accompanying program to the exhibition "Kicker, Fighters and Legends - Jews in German Football".

2014

  • 1st prize: Ultra group Schickeria of FC Bayern Munich in memory of Kurt Landauer's life's work .
  • 2nd prize: Borussia Dortmund , the fan and support department of the club, the Fan-Projekt Dortmund e. V. as well as the Steinwache memorial and memorial for a project that included a visit to the Polish memorials in Zamość , Lublin , Belzec , Majdanek and Sobibór , where the search for traces of 800 Dortmund Jews who had been deported in 1942 was undertaken.
  • 3rd Prize: Adult Education Center of the City of Roth for the event program “Roth ist bunt” around the exhibition “Kickers, fighters and legends” about the history of Jewish football in Germany.

2015

  • 1st prize: Supporters Crew SC Göttingen 05 e. V. for its commitment to remembering exiled Jewish members.
  • 2nd prize: VfB für Alle e. V. Oldenburg for the fan initiative to work against all forms of discrimination and for refugees.
  • 3rd prize: Streetwork Fan Project Halle (Saale) for its regular fan trips to the Auschwitz Memorial and to Israel.

2016

2017

  • 1st prize: Schalker Fan Initiative e. V. as an "outstanding example of the many positive and sustainable fan groups in the country" and "for the enormous civil society commitment in football as a whole".
  • 2nd prize: Leipzig association "Tüpfelhausen - Das Familienportal" for its annual international and intercultural football festival.
  • 3rd prize: International women's football tournament and “ Discover Football ” cultural festival in Berlin.

2018

  • 1st prize: SC Aleviten Paderborn for the project "Paths of Remembrance" that, according to DFB President Grindel, is particularly noteworthy because " Alevis are dedicated to the fight against anti-Semitism in our society".
  • 2nd prize: Hertha BSC for memorial trips with Hertha fans and joint educational trips to Auschwitz with the U15 players from Hertha and Liverpool FC .
  • 3rd prize: Fan project “AG Remembrance Sites Bochum” for the brochure “1938 - just so everyone knows”, which was published one day before the celebration of the 80th anniversary of VfL Bochum .

2019

  • 1st prize: FC Ente Bagdad for its active participation in the initiative "! Never Again - Remembrance Day in German Football", which commemorates the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945 every year in stadiums and on football fields around January 27th.
  • 2nd prize: Johann Friedrich von Cotta School and the Kickers fan project in Stuttgart for a joint project in which students and fans have been following in the footsteps of Jewish pioneers in Stuttgart in workshops, excursions and memorial events since 2017.
  • 3rd prize: Joint project of VfL Osnabrück , the VfL Museum, the fan department of the second division, the Osnabrück fan project and the ultra group "Violet Crew 2002" for the memory of the Jewish gaming committee chairman and patron Felix Löwenstein , who was excluded from the club in 1935 and died in a so-called "death march" from the Neuengamme concentration camp in 1945 .

Honorary Prize Winner

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nuremberg Ultras are reminiscent of Jenö Konrad. 1. FC Nürnberg, November 19, 2012, accessed on November 21, 2012 .
  2. ↑ tz.de : Julius Hirsch Prize 2014 for “Schickeria” , accessed on October 16, 2014.
  3. ↑ 2nd place for Borussia Dortmund at the Julius Hirsch Prize 2014 BVB fan department, September 22, 2014.
  4. ↑ DFB.de: Julius Hirsch Prize 2018 for Paderborn, Berlin and Bochum, accessed on October 2, 2018
  5. ↑ Julius Hirsch Prize 2019 goes to Mainz, Stuttgart and Osnabrück. In: dfb.de. September 19, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019 .