Klaus and Hanne Vack

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Klaus Vack (* 17th May 1935 in Offenbach am Main , † 18th May 2019 ) and Hanne Vack (* 15. May 1940 as Hanne Wagner in Offenbach am Main) were a German activists of peace and civil rights movements after the Second World War known . You co-founded the Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy .

Life

Klaus Vack grew up in Offenbach-Tempelsee and attended elementary school from the age of six . His father took part in World War II as a soldier, and his mother had to bring Klaus, his brother Horst (* 1929) and sister Ursula (* 1938) through the war on their own.

Klaus Vack experienced the air raids on Offenbach as a child and was sent by his mother to relatives in the village of Kaltenwestheim as a precaution at the end of 1943 / beginning of 1944 . There he experienced the end of the war - albeit under circumstances that gave him anxiety dreams for years afterwards. On Easter Sunday 1945, German troops had holed up in the village and opposed the American troops advancing on the Buchenwald concentration camp so energetically that the Americans withdrew. “But suddenly around noon there was a deafening noise. A squadron of fighter-bombers thundered over the village. Once, twice, three times ... Exactly seven times. They fired from machine guns on board and threw phosphorus incendiary bombs. Minutes later half the village was on fire. It took years before it was rebuilt. ”In 1984, looking back on 32 years of political commitment at the time, Klaus Vack described the existential significance of these war experiences for him:

“During this time, memories of a war child caught up with me again and again. Although my political path is ten times longer than the three years in which I experienced war from 1942 to 1945, it is deeper buried in me than the many terrible news that yesterday and today again and again triggered our horror and us to Force resistance. [..] Children of war, who have learned and not displaced, should be particularly sensitive to the saying: 'Peace is only when the children cannot think of the word war anymore.' "

- Klaus Vack : Memories in self-talk , p. 122

In July 1945 Klaus Vack was able to return to Tempelsee, which had been spared from bombs. After at a trade school acquired GCSEs he completed a commercial apprenticeship and supplemented them with additional training for accountants . In 1953 he passed the business assistant examination, and only a year later he was elected chairman of the works council, at that time not yet of legal age.

In autumn 1951, Klaus Vack joined the Offenbach Friends of Nature . This step was preceded by a conscious turning away from Protestant youth work, into which he had grown through religious and confirmation classes. The decisive factor was the dispute with his pastor, who, as a CDU member, campaigned from the pulpit for rearmament in the Federal Republic. When discussions with this pastor were unsuccessful, a break occurred, which at the same time led to Vack's "break with church-Christian orientation as a whole".

The Friends of Nature, dubbed as Say No! People by the aforementioned pastor because of their opposition to rearmament , offered Klaus Vack the framework in which he could become more politically aware and active and in which politics was understood as something encompassing all areas of life - seriously and fun at the same time.

“Someone like Klaus Vack was 'politically' socialized in southern Hesse, more precisely: in Offenbach. In the 1950s, the 'old left' could still be felt everywhere, and the historical reference to anti-war politics did not have to be overheard. [...] There were left-wing loyalties that were at odds with the gates of the political apparatuses, and it was no coincidence that those organizations and initiatives that were independent of parties (such as the Friends of Nature, the opponents of the war, the Easter march movement) offered them a home who did not want to let party leaders do their thinking. Klaus Vack is at home here, and I think that will last a lifetime. "

- Arno Klönne : Searching for traces in Offenbach In: Committee for Basic Rights and Democracy (ed.): Tradition does not mean picking up ashes. P. 16

What also "lasted for a lifetime" was the marriage of Klaus and Hanne Vack, who both met in the youth group of Offenbach Friends of Nature.

“As much as Klaus Vack was and is the driving political mind and the sympathetic, compassionate heart that pounds for action, just as little can his political life work from his youth on without Hanne Vack's independent political mind and heart . Hanne and Klaus Vack not only lead an unusually partnership-like life that took the other, the other into their own lives, and at the same time accepted them as an independent person. Without the highly skilled and always present Hanne Vack in his unusual political and personal sensitivity, Klaus Vack would have been downright bottomless despite all the judgment ground. "

- Wolf-Dieter Narr, Roland Roth, Martin Singe, Elke Steven, Dirk Vogelskamp : Common foreword by the editors to The Other Germany after 1945 , p. 10

Klaus Vack was the children's group leader of Offenbacher Naturfreunde for almost twenty years, for a few years also youth group leader and in 1958 he became the Hessian state youth leader of Germany's Naturefriends Youth . This was followed by his involvement at the federal level of Naturefriends Youth: “The 7th Federal Youth Conference of Naturefriends Youth elected Klaus to the federal youth leadership as editor of› we are young ‹.“ Organizing himself with the Naturefriends meant becoming politically active, and so Klaus Vack grew As already indicated above, early on into the political disputes in the still young Federal Republic, as he did in 2003 on the occasion of his 587th participation in a peace demonstration - the "first large-scale demonstration for which I was not organizationally responsible" - remembered:

“My first peace demonstration was on September 1, 1952, Anti-War Day, in my hometown Offenbach. At that time, we young people demonstrated with the hot heart of 'Never again war!', That was the lesson for us from the mass murders of World War II. We wanted to prevent the remilitarization of Germany and were firmly convinced that we would achieve this goal. We did not prevent rearmament.
But at least our 'Say No!' Protest resulted in consistent conscientious objection. In the early 1960s, around 3,000 to 5,000 young people refused to do military service every year. In 2002 there were 190,000. I learned an important philosophy of life: 'If you can say no, you need to lie less.' "

In Algeria , the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) fought against the colonial power France for the country's independence in the 1950s and early 1960s . "The Hessian Naturfreundejugend dealt intensively with the problems of the Algerian war of the situation of refugees, the role of the Foreign Legion and the rebels, as the Algerian freedom fighters, are mentioned in the press." Klaus Vack organized in the summer of 1960 in Frankfurt a press conference with the in Wiesbaden-born Winfried Müller, alias Si Mustapha-Müller , who organized the return program for deserted Foreign Legionnaires for the FLN .

While the Hessian Naturefriends Youth started a conspiratorial letter campaign aimed at encouraging Germans fighting in the Foreign Legion to desert and return to Germany, finally - as Fritz Amann , one of the fellow travelers, remembers - "a three-person delegation: Klaus Vack, Horst Goßfelder and I [...] the crisis area from the Moroccan side. Si Mustafa, the head of the repatriation service for deserted legionaries, organized and supervised the study trip. ”All three were active in the Hessian Naturefriends Youth; In France, Klaus Vack was "sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment in absentia, but given amnesty in 1967"

Klaus Vack as a speaker at one of the first Hessian Easter marches in the early 1960s

In 1959, Klaus Vack helped organize a protest march from Hanau-Steinheim to Offenbach am Main on the occasion of a state youth meeting of the Hessian Naturefriends Youth under the motto Fight against atomic death . This march was the earliest forerunner of the later Easter marches . As secretary of the Association of Conscientious Objectors (VK), he then made a significant contribution to the success of the (West) German Easter march movement from 1961 , the later campaign for democracy and disarmament . As in 1959, he was one of the organizers of the first Hessian Easter March, which led from Miltenberg to Frankfurt, in 1961 , and together with Konrad Tempel , Andreas Buro and others, he was one of the organizers of the first hour of the Easter March movement at the federal level. In January 1965 he was elected full-time managing director by the central committee , the central management body, as the successor to Andreas Buro, who had previously been active as managing director on an honorary basis. Klaus and Hanne Vack ran the office of the Easter march movement in Offenbach in an office community with the office of the Hessian Naturefriends Youth, which in turn was an important pillar of the Easter march movement.

In February 1965 Klaus and Hanne Vack traveled to Berlin and visited Wolfgang Neuss in the western part of the city and Wolf Biermann in the east . They succeeded in obtaining permission for Biermann to participate in an Easter march event on Easter 1965 from the GDR Ministry of Culture . On April 19, 1965, Easter Monday, Biermann and Neuss performed together in the evening in the Frankfurt Zoo Society House , which was recorded on the long-playing record entitled Wolf Biermann (East) as a guest of Wolfgang Neuss (West) .

Also in 1965, the Campaign for Disarmament included the fight against the emergency laws in its program, and the fight against the Vietnam War is increasingly becoming the focus of political activity. For Klaus Vack, this led to intensive contacts with the student protest movement , especially with the Socialist German Student Union (SDS). “During this time, I was accepted into the editorial group of the SDS theory journal ' New Criticism ' - besides Fritz Lamm, the only non-intellectual in this illustrious group.” At the same time, the rise of the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition (APO) also led to a gradual loss of importance for the Easter march movement, which from 1968 onwards led to increased thinking about their political future. Klaus Vack positioned himself against the idea of ​​creating a new Socialist Party and in December 1968 took part in the initiative to create an independent socialist movement in the Federal Republic, which eventually led to his separation from the campaign for democracy and disarmament.

In a declaration published in July 1970, signed by Andreas Buro, Christel Beilmann , Heiner Halberstadt , Arno Klönne and Klaus Vack, the five founding members of the Campaign for Democracy and Disarmament declared that they had left the organization in 1969. They regard it as "structurally outdated in the current situation" and complain that there is no longer a broad range of political directions. Above all, however, they assume that the circles close to the DKP , by sticking to the given structures, are “attached to the campaign”, which is determined more by party political discipline than by real expectations ”. In contrast, they rely on "the possibility of new forms of cooperation between radical democratic and left-wing groups".

In order to “create space for new forms of political cooperation”, Klaus Vack, together with Andreas Buro and others, founded the “ Socialist Office ” (“SB”) in Offenbach am Main in 1969 , an information and organization center for groups of left and undogmatic socialists , which the monthly magazine "links" published. “The socialist office was located in Offenbach from 1969 to 1997, had three rooms, files, card index boxes, an address , telephone, typewriters, fax, copier and a legendary Rotaprint printer. And in Klaus Vack it had a politically and organizationally versed secretary - and with his wife Hanne the perfect office manager. If necessary, they could fall back on many volunteers, especially from the Offenbach Friends of Nature. "

The SB was in the 1970s and 1980s - played a key role also big political events or had this self-organized, such as the - in addition to the execution of a lot of grass-roots democratic organized political everyday work Angela Davis -Solidaritätskongress 1972 in Frankfurt, the Frankfurter Pentecostal Congress 1976 the International Russell Tribunal 1978–1979, the Frankfurt Great Council of 1980 or the Hamburger Zukunftswerkstatt, also held in 1980 . At the same time, there were also internal political tensions and disputes, which led to radical changes.

“After 1980, the generation of founders around Klaus Vack (Andreas Buro, Arno Klönne, Wolf-Dieter Narr , Roland Roth , Herbert Stubenrauch , Edgar Weick and others), referred to as“ traditional left-wing socialists ”, largely withdrew from SB. They try to continue their political ideas in the Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy or in the newly founded party The Greens . Klaus and Hanne Vack leave their socialist office and take over the management of the committee - with an office in their apartment in the Sensbachtal in the Odenwald . "

The early 1980s were also the time of the New Peace Movement and its struggle against the NATO double resolution . In this "'new" peace movement of the 1980s, Klaus and Hanne Vack opposed the stationing of medium-range missiles (Pershing 2) at the large demonstrations in Bonn and in 1983 on the human chain from the US command center Eucom in Stuttgart to the missile site in Neu Ulm and mainly participated in hundreds of civil disobedience actions in Mutlangen . "

The civil disobedience practiced in these clashes in the form of human chains and sit-down blockades resulted in massive penalties, including against Klaus Vack.

“Personally, I received dozens of penal orders and was punished for 19 'coercive actions'. That made 19 times 20 daily rates times 50 D-Marks. According to a decision of the Federal Constitutional Court on January 10, 1995, all convictions were classified as unlawful. So I got back the fines I had paid of around 20,000 D-Marks. I donated everything to the relief campaign 'Holidays from War' in the former Yugoslavia, which I now lead. "

In the 1990s, Klaus Vack campaigned against the war in the former Yugoslavia and, at the end of September / beginning of October 1991, took part in the peace caravan that traveled from Trieste through Slovenia, Croatia, Vojvodina, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He published the resulting experiences together with Andreas Buro in an article in the taz . This also resulted in concrete actions: Hanne and Klaus Vack's commitment to humanitarian, peace-political and human rights aid in the former Yugoslavia and later in the successor republics. Michael Schmid wrote about it in 2005:

“Since the beginning of the war in the former Yugoslavia, Hanne and Klaus Vack, supported by friends and other members of the Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy, have made a total of 97 trips to disputed and destroyed areas for approx. 13.9 million DM humanitarian and peace policy aid provided. This enormous sum was collected exclusively from private donors. Initially, under the title 'Help instead of shooting', the aid went mainly to refugees in various camps in all of the successor republics of Yugoslavia. Children of war and refugees were given special consideration during these relief efforts. Close cooperation developed with many peace groups in different parts of the former Yugoslavia. In view of the miserable living conditions, however, humanitarian support was the focus of almost all trips. In addition to the aid deliveries, holiday camps for orphans and refugee children were held for the first time in 1994. Since the start of the campaign, in the past eleven years the committee has been able to invite over 17,000 children and young people to take a two-week vacation from war. This campaign continues to this day, even if Hanne and Klaus have not been there in the past few years. "

In 2005 the Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy existed for 25 years. Wolf-Dieter Narr and Roland Roth wrote on this occasion:

“What would Klaus Vack, the radical democratic one, the socialist, the pacifist, the political fantasy and organizational genius be, what would Hanne Vack, who made this unusual profession possible and helped shape, without her decades-long commitment to headstrong politics in the midst of and against the prevailing non-politics - so politics in the midst of all the non-violent conflicts in the common action of radically equal and free people has its core to be tested daily. Rotfädig her resilient and creative activity runs through the years with the friends of nature, the conscientious objectors, the Easter marches, the opponents of the emergency, the Socialist Office and last but not least, starting in 1980, the Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy, to name just the most important political places. "

At that time, Hanne and Klaus Vack were just simple members of the committee , no longer “its office”, which had meanwhile been moved to Cologne . But Narr and Roth clarify once again the Vackian character that accompanied the work of the committee:

“Although the committee, as a small organization, has broken away from its founding generation and had to break away [...], the founding and creative impulses of Vack's formative force and art that have lasted for almost twenty years remain what makes the committee a committee. His materialistic concept of human rights, which includes the quartet of freedom and equality, integrity and fraternity with the anarchistically inherited mutual help, a quartet that always applies in the same way to those who think differently and who live differently, only with the necessary social foundation provides. This is where the argus-eyed vigilance is based, always seeing norms together with their forms and means, keeping them turning back and forth and redefining them. "

Klaus Vack died in May 2019, one day after his 84th birthday.

Honors

  • In 1992, Hanne and Klaus Vack received the Adolf Arndt Prize .
  • In 1996, the Humanist Union awarded them the Fritz Bauer Prize it had donated . The reason stated:

“Both have been politically active since the 1950s, mostly in groups, initiatives and movements of the 'extra-parliamentary opposition'. [...] The tireless work of Klaus and Hanne Vack has shaped the history of this republic. [...] Hanne and Klaus Vack were among the first to recognize that politics is far too important to be left to the Chancellors and Cabinets. The peace movement of the 1970s and 1980s marked a turning point in post-war history. For the first time, hundreds of thousands organized protest marches and peace campaigns that reached broad sections of the population and led to a profound change in political consciousness in society.
Klaus and Hanne Vack played a key role in initiating this development and supported it with their inimitable organizational talent. "

Publications (selection)

  • Memories in self-talk , in: Hellmut Lessing (ed.): Kriegskinder , extrabuch Verlag, Frankfurt 1984, ISBN 3-88704-115-1 , pp. 111-122.
  • Hanne Vack, Klaus Vack (ed.): Mutlangen - our courage will last! Before d. Judges in Schwäbisch Gmünd. 11 defense speeches due to "Coercion". Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy, Sensbachtal 1986, ISBN 978-3-88906-025-9 .
  • For friends - '89 splitter - Subject: Civil disobedience. 1989.
  • Together against the war. Findings of the European peace caravan through Yugoslavia , in: Die Tageszeitung , October 9, 1991 (together with Andreas Buro ).
  • Hanne Vack: Why I blocked non-violently. In: Wolf-Dieter Narr (Ed.): Civil disobedience. Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy, 1992, pp. 329–338.
  • Hanne Vack, Klaus Vack (ed.): Political and social learning processes. Possibilities, opportunities, problems. Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy, Beerfelden 1993.
  • Peace policy in the middle of a war. 1996, Ed. Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy.
  • Wolf-Dieter Narr , Hanne Vack, Klaus Vack: Rosa Luxemburg. In: Luise Schottroff , Johannes Thiele (Hrsg.): Gotteslehrerinnen. Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-7831-0992-2 , pp. 139-154.
  • Never start stopping! Never stop starting! , February 17, 2003.
  • Before the war, during the war, after the war. , 2003 (PDF including biographical information on the author).
  • The other Germany after 1945 - as a pacifist, socialist and radical democrat in the Federal Republic of Germany - Klaus Vack. Political-biographical sketches and articles , published by the Committee for Basic Rights and Democracy, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-88906-116-8 .

literature

  • Karl A. Otto : From Easter March to APO. History of the extra-parliamentary opposition in the Federal Republic 1960–70. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-593-32192-0 .
  • Claus Leggewie : porter. The left Algeria project in Adenauer Germany. Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin, 1984, ISBN 3-88022-286-X (The book also contains a chapter on the collaboration between Klaus Vack and Si Mustapha Müller in the repatriation of deserted Foreign Legionnaires).
  • Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy (ed.): "Tradition does not mean picking up ashes, but keeping the flame burning!". For and about Klaus Vack. Self-published, Sensbachtal 1985, ISBN 3-88906-015-3 .
  • Oskar Negt : Klaus Vack. Politics as a production process. In other words: insubordinate contemporaries. Approaches and memories. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, pp. 157-162, ISBN 3-596-12250-3 .
  • Gottfried Oy: Searching for traces of the Neue Linke, the example of the socialist office and its magazine links. Socialist newspaper (1969–1997). rls-papers, edited by Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung , Frankfurt am Main 2007, chapter specifically on Klaus Vack (biographical summary): pp. 17–18 ( online PDF; 38 kB).
  • Connection (ed.): Algeria: Repatriation Service for Deserters 1957–1962. Connection e. V., Offenbach am Main, 2011.
  • Egon Becker : The Socialist Office - An Unfinished Project? In: Barbara Klaus, Jürgen Feldhoff (ed.): Political autonomy and scientific reflection. Contributions to the life's work of Arno Klönne. PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne, 2017, ISBN 978-3-89438-644-3 , pp. 161-182.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Klaus Vack: Mein 1968: The Easter marches became a campaign for democracy and disarmament (see web links )
  2. In Mein 1968 he mentions February 1944 for this, in the memoirs published in 1984 he writes in self-talk that he was brought to Kaltenwestheim in autumn 1943.
  3. ^ The other Germany after 1945 , pp. 21-22
  4. The Other Germany after 1945 p. 25
  5. The Other Germany after 1945 , pp. 27–28
  6. Memories in self-talk , p. 122
  7. a b c Fritz Amann: Klaus Vack and the nature lovers youth. In: Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy (ed.): Tradition does not mean lifting up ashes. Pp. 22-25.
  8. Klaus Vack: Never start to stop! Never stop starting!
  9. ^ A b Frank Bärmann: The Naturfreundejugend Offenbach and the Algerian repatriation service for deserters. In: Connection (Verein) | Connection (ed.): Algeria: Return service for deserters 1957–1962 , pp. 3–4.
  10. WHO DESERT, HAVE TO CALL “ALEMANI” , DER SPIEGEL 36/1959. For the various support actions of the West German left for the FLN's struggle for independence, see also Claus Leggewie's book Kofferträger , which also contains a chapter on the collaboration between Klaus Vack and Si Mustapha.
  11. ^ The other Germany after 1945 , pp. 63–64
  12. ^ Karl A. Otto: From the Easter March to the APO. P. 81.
  13. The Naturfreundejugend was 1,962 at the federal level one of the first organizations to the Central Committee had been recognized as a friendly organization. (Karl A. Otto: From Easter March to APO. P. 79).
  14. ^ The other Germany after 1945 , pp. 79–80
  15. Cover and title of the LP Wolf Biermann (East) as guest of Wolfgang Neuss (West) . To listen to: Wolf Biermann (East) visits Wolfgang Neuss (West) on youtube
  16. The Other Germany after 1945 , p. 81
  17. ^ The other Germany after 1945 , p. 86
  18. ^ The other Germany after 1945 , p. 100
  19. a b apo press. Information service for the extra-parliamentary opposition in Cologne. Volume 2, No. 7, August 1, 1970.
  20. ^ Egon Becker: The Socialist Office - An Unfinished Project? Pp. 161-162.
  21. ↑ So far there is no coherent account of Herbert Stubenrauch and his political and educational work. Some biographical information can be found in the DNB catalog : * 1938 in Remscheid - † July 10, 2010 in Frankfurt am Main; Place of work: Frankfurt am Main; Pedagogue, teacher, therapist. Ten book titles are linked to his name there.
    In Karl A. Otto: Vom Ostermarsch zur APO , pp. 87 ff., It can be read that Stubenrauch, who at the time was chairman of the Wuppertal Association of Conscientious Objectors, was approached by Konrad Tempel in November 1960 about being involved in the Easter march movement . In 1961 he took over responsibility for planning the Easter marches in the Ruhr area.
    Herbert Stubenrauch was married to Renate Schütte, the daughter of “ Ernst Schütte , who was minister of culture in an SPD government in Hesse from 1959 to 1969. After studying at the University of Education in Wuppertal with Renate Riemeck , Ulrike Meinhof's foster mother , she married Renate Herbert Stubenrauch, a leading member of the ' Socialist Teachers '
    Association '. "( Experienced stories with Renate Stubenrauch ) Renate Stubenrauch was the co-founder of the Free School in Frankfurt , Herbert Stubenrauch a committed fighter for the comprehensive school .
    The aforementioned Socialist Teachers' Association was founded on March 20, 1968 by 62 teachers from all types of schools in Frankfurt. ( Herbert Stubenrauch: Left teachers organize. Report on the Socialist Teachers Association ) See also the Spiegel article from April 15, 1968: TEACHER / OPPOSITION: Bad grades The Socialist Teachers Association cooperated closely with the Socialist Association : “The Socialist Teachers Association founded in 1968 (SLB) agreed a cooperation with the SB on the initiative of Herbert Stubenrauch. Together, SLB and SB publish the “Information Service of the Socialist Teachers' Association”, later the “Information Service for Schools Work Field”. The foundation stone for the so-called field of work approach of the SB, to organize the left in their professional environment and to offer them a podium, has been laid. ”( GOTTFRIED OY: Spurensuche Neue Linke. The example of the Socialist Office and its magazine 'links' )
    In Hamburg The Institute for Social Research is storing Herbert Stubenrauch's estate .
  22. Another veteran of the left-wing socialist movements that has not been recognized so far is Edgar Weick : “ Born in Karlsbad (CSR) in 1936 , grew up as a 'refugee child' in Upper Hesse. After attending the Hessenkolleg and studying at the University of Frankfurt , he worked as a consultant for political youth education and adult education at an educational establishment in the Taunus, from 1980 to 1999 as head of the central office for scientific further education at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences .
    1955 joined the SPD , resigned in 1982 because of the conflict over the runway west . Politically engaged in the Easter march movement, in the campaign against the emergency laws, in the Socialist Office and in the Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy. ”( AWO Kreisverband Frankfurt am Main e.V .: On the 'Red Sofa' - Edgar Weick ) In an announcement one The book, on which he was involved, says about Edgar Weick: “For many years a full-time pensioner, involved in the› Bunter Tisch - Höchst Mit einer ‹, in projects of› culture of remembrance ‹and in an initiative for future cultural use, was also an editorial member of Express - Newspaper for socialist company and trade union work . In the catalog of the DNB a variety of books are listed in which he has worked. "
  23. ^ Egon Becker: The Socialist Office - An Unfinished Project? , Pp. 168-169.
  24. Michael Schmid: For decades, tirelessly active for peace and justice - Klaus Vack has turned 70
  25. Together against the war. Findings of the European peace caravan through Yugoslavia
  26. Michael Schmid: Tirelessly active for decades for peace and justice.
  27. ^ A b Wolf-Dieter Narr, Roland Roth: Birthday congratulations for Hanne and Klaus Vack
  28. At the end of 1998 you left all functions of the committee. (Elke Steven: Hanne and Klaus Vack say goodbye to the Committee for Fundamental Rights )
  29. On the death of Klaus Vack , gmuender-tagespost.de, published and accessed on May 23, 2019.
  30. Wolfgang Huebner: incorruptible linker. In: Neues Deutschland, May 29, 2019, p. 6
  31. ^ Adolf Arndt Prize for Hanne and Klaus Vack
  32. ^ Fritz Bauer Prize for Hanne and Klaus Vack