Paul Spiegel Prize for moral courage
The Paul Spiegel Prize for Moral Courage is a prize sponsored by the Central Council of Jews in Germany , which has been awarded since 2009 and is endowed with 5000 euros.
The honorary award is named after Paul Spiegel , who was President of the Central Council from 2000 until his death in 2006. It is intended to appeal to a “strong civil society, without which a stable and lively democracy would be inconceivable” and to honor people “who are committed to civil society and show moral courage”.
Award winners
- 2009: Bernd Merbitz , State Police President of the Free State of Saxony.
- 2011: Birgit and Horst Lohmeyer , artist couple from Jamel , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
- 2012: Kreuzberg Initiative against Antisemitism eV (KIgA).
- 2013: Local alliance Wir für Lübheen .
- 2015: Andrea Röpke , political scientist and freelance journalist.
- 2016: Show your face! For a cosmopolitan Germany eV , Berlin.
- 2018: Wilfried Manneke, Protestant pastor from Unterlüß , Lower Saxony.
Web links
- Paul Spiegel Prize (with further information on the prize winners) on the website of the Central Council of Jews in Germany .
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Spiegel Prize for moral courage. In: Zentralratderjuden.de . Retrieved June 27, 2018 .
- ^ Paul Spiegel Prize for the Saxon police chief. In: lr-online.de . June 26, 2009. Retrieved June 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Franca Niendorf: Wismar: Central Council of Jews awards the Paul Spiegel Prize today: “After all, there is no alternative”. In: svz.de . May 12, 2011, accessed June 27, 2018 .
- ↑ With quiz tricks against anti-Semitism. In: welt.de . January 15, 2013, accessed June 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Franca Niendorf: Paul-Spiegel-Preis for Lübheen. Emotions behind the Democracy Prize. In: svz.de . January 18, 2013, accessed June 27, 2018 .
- ^ Paul Spiegel Prize for political scientist. In: rp-online.de . June 18, 2015, accessed June 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Regine Müller: Paul Spiegel Prize for the association “Show your face!” In: rp-online.de . May 19, 2016. Retrieved June 27, 2018 .
- ^ Pastor Manneke receives Paul Spiegel Prize. In: ndr.de . February 21, 2018, accessed June 27, 2018 .