Karl Carstens Prize

The Karl Carstens Prize is a prize that is donated by the Friends of the Federal Academy for Security Policy eV and has been awarded every two years in Berlin since 1997 . The award was named after the former Federal President Karl Carstens . The prize is awarded to personalities who promote security policy issues in German-speaking countries and who convey a broad approach to modern security policy to the public. The prize is endowed with 5000 euros .

In alternation (since 1998) with the awarding of the prizes, the Manfred Wörner speech has been held at the Federal Academy since 1995 , previously given by Karsten Voigt (1995), Werner Hoyer (1997), Jörg Schönbohm (1998), Harald Müller (2004), Christian Schwarz-Schilling (2006), Lothar Rühl (2008), Christian Schmidt (2010) and Klaus Töpfer (2014). In 2002 Rudolf Scharping was supposed to speak, but he canceled because of the rampage in Erfurt . In 2012 it was suspended because of the 20th anniversary celebration.

Award winners

• 1997: Gerhard Hubatschek , Head of Report Verlag
• 1999: Rolf Clement , editor-in-chief of the series "Background Politics" in Deutschlandfunk
• 2001: Wolfgang Leidhold , creator of the political, economic and ecological plan and role play POL & IS
• 2003: Christine Kolmar , Head of the Communication and Politics Department at WWF Germany
• 2005: Peter Scholl-Latour , journalist and publicist
• 2007: Helmut Markwort , editor-in-chief of the news magazine FOCUS
• 2009: Volker Perthes , Director of the German Institute for International Politics and Security and Executive Chairman of the Science and Politics Foundation
• 2011: Paul Elmar Jöris , state political correspondent at WDR Düsseldorf
• 2013: Claus Kleber , ZDF anchorman
• 2015: Avi Primor , ambassador ret. D.
• 2017: Sylke Tempel , Editor-in-Chief International Politics , posthumous award 2018
• 2019: Ahmad Mansour , psychologist and author

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Awarding of the Karl Carstens Prize 2009 to Professor Dr. Volker Perthes. (No longer available online.) Federal Academy for Security, formerly the original ; Retrieved December 9, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ The Karl Carstens Prize. In: www.baks.bund.de. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .