Prize for moral courage from the Solbach Freise Foundation

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The price for the courage Solbach-Freise Foundation is the Solbach-Freise Foundation for Civil Courage based in Bodenwerder awarded since 1995 once a year to people who zivilcouragiert behavior and for more justice have used. The prize is aimed at individuals or groups, but has also already been awarded in parts.

History and endowment

The award is given by the secondary school teacher Anne Solbach-Freise, who died on March 23, 2014 and was born in the late 1930s. At the end of the 1960s she was bullied as a teacher in Lüdenscheid by her then headmaster and later retired by the school authorities with immediate effect, against which she successfully sued. Solbach-Freise then changed schools, but felt damaged and also became depressed. In addition to her teaching profession she was involved, among other things in nature and environmental protection and in the peace movement .

In 1995 Solbach-Freise set up a private foundation for civil courage and, under the motto “Dare to democracy - show civil courage”, advertised a prize that she presented every year and financed from her own resources. The founder's motivation was to “promote civil courage as a civic virtue and by awarding the prize to honor the courageous commitment of people and organizations to justice”. The Solbach-Freise Foundation for civil courage , named after the founder, is based in Bodenwerder , the residence of Solbach-Freise, where the prize is awarded every year at a ceremony.

The four-person foundation council includes the teacher Christiane Harbort-Ring, the sign language interpreter Mechtild Steinhauer, the pastor i. R. Heiko Limburg and the teacher Franz-Josef Hanisch. Since April 1, 2014, the Foundation has been managed by Tom Jürgens, who was unanimously elected by the Board of Trustees as the Board of Trustees.

Since the founding of the foundation, the founder has primarily supported human rights activists and opponents of nuclear power as well as opponents of war and globalization. The foundation and the award ceremonies have been reported several times in regional and national media , such as in newspapers and magazines as well as on radio and television.

The prize was initially endowed with prize money of 5000  DM , later with 4000  euros and from 2009 with 5000 euros. In 2010 Solbach-Freise increased the prize money once to 10,000 euros, and the prize was also awarded to an organization for the first time.

The last entry on the foundation's homepage reads: “Due to current events due to the interest rate development, the advisory board decided at its meeting on July 26th to cancel the 2016 award ceremony. In the next advisory board meeting on August 17th, the advisory board is to be expanded and then to take a decision on the future modalities of the award ceremony. In future, an annual award ceremony will only be possible with a reduction in the prize money. "

Previous winners

Note: The information on the place of residence and partly on the occupation as well as the reasons for the award are based on the comments on the website of the Solbach Freise Foundation or are based on them.

year Award winners Place of residence,
possibly occupation 		Justification of the foundation for awarding the award
1995

Hermann Focke

Cloppenburg, veterinary

Fights against agonizing animal transports across the country.

1996

Uwe Chrobrock

Hamburg, police officer

Fights against unworthy treatment of refugees by colleagues.

1998

Conrad Link

Bavaria

For his resistance to nuclear power and the defense industry.

1999

Erika Drees

Stendal

Campaigns against human rights violations (already in the GDR), as well as against nuclear weapons and the arms industry.

2000

Axel Koehler-Schnura

Dusseldorf

Is global head of the " Coordination against BAYER Risks ".

2001

Gregor Böckermann

Frankfurt

Fights capitalist globalization and is part of the " Religious for Peace Initiative ".

2002

Bernhard Nolz

Win,
teacher

Fights against war operations by the USA - Chairman of the “Pedagogues for Peace”, founder of the Siegen “Center for Peace Culture”.

2003

Gertrud Becker

Nordenham

Fight against poisoning (lead / zinc, radioactivity) in her homeland for 35 years.

2004

Traute Kirsch, Susanne Kamien

Beverungen and Lüchow

For her decades of resistance to nuclear power plants in her homeland.

2005

José Bové

Millau, France

For his decades-long struggle for healthy food and especially for his worldwide activities against agro-genetic engineering.

2006

Siegwart Horst Günther

St. Peter-Ording

For his work to publicize the consequences of ammunition made from depleted uranium (DU) in Iraq and the Balkans.

2007

Peter Binz

trier

For many years he has campaigned for those damaged by environmental toxins - against all attacks from business, authorities or colleagues.

2008

Friedrich Mülln

Munich

For his many years of courageous work against factory farming and other animal cruelty.

2009

Jürgen Grässlin

Freiburg

For 25 years of daring resistance against the German armaments industry.

2010

urgewald e. V.

Sassenberg

Environment and human rights lawyer. Use against corporations and banks that grant loans for unjust and environmentally harmful projects.

2011

Margrit Lichtinghagen

North Rhine-Westphalia, lawyer

For the intrepid work as a public prosecutor for tax investigations [at the Bochum district court]. After the arrest of ex-post chief Klaus Zumwinkel , a "punishment" followed in the worst possible way.

2012

Jörg Bergstedt

Central Hesse

For his consistent, courageous activities against global companies such as Monsanto, BASF and Bayer (genetic engineering).

2013

International Union of Reconciliation , Regional Group Cochem-Zell, Elke Koller

Leienkaul

For their use against nuclear weapons in Germany and their peacekeeping activities at the American military bases.

2014

Margrit Herbst

Brokstedt

For uncovering the beginnings of the German BSE scandal in 1994, which led to her being removed from her position as an official veterinarian for meat hygiene.

2015

Inge Bultschnieder

Rheda-Wiedenbrück

For their work with the IG WerkFAIR contract against the inhumane working and living conditions of the employees at Europe's largest slaughterhouse in Rheda-Wiedenbrück.

2017

Jana Grebe

Worpswede

For humane treatment of recipients of help in the job center (Hartz IV).

literature

  • Wolfgang Keim (Red.): Critique of Transformation. Educational Science in United Germany. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-631-50913-8 , p. 377. ( Yearbook for Pedagogy , 2002)
  • Bernhard Nolz: Institution and Movement. On the situation of "Peace Education" in Germany. In: Werner Wintersteiner et. al. (Ed.): Peace education in Europe. Visions and experiences. Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1260-9 , p. 187. ( European studies in education , Vol. 19; English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Melanie Mühl, Marcus Jauer: Moral courage. The crucial moment . In: FAZ , November 16, 2009. (Accessed December 13, 2010.)
  2. ↑ a b Prize for moral courage goes to urgewald . In: Westfälische Nachrichten , November 8, 2010. (Accessed December 13, 2010.)
  3. ↑ Andreas Schwarzkopf: Often against the current . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 14, 2009. (Accessed December 14, 2010.)
  4. ↑ Reports were made, for example, a. in the Swiss magazine Zeit ( Memento from January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (2007); in the journal environmental medicine society (2009); in the national German daily newspapers FAZ , Frankfurter Rundschau and taz (both 2009); in the environmental monthly magazine " Umwelt aktuell" ( Memento from December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (both 2010); in the local radio station Radio Aktiv ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (2009); as well as in several regional daily newspapers, such as in November 2010 alone in: Deister and Weser newspaper , Pyrmonter Nachrichten and Westfälische Nachrichten . (Accessed on December 19, 2010.)
  5. ↑ (saw): "He who has such strong enemies must be a courageous person" . In: Deister and Weser newspaper , November 15, 2009. (Accessed December 14, 2010.)
  6. ↑ (saw): Bodenwerder. “It is not enough just to be against it” . In: Deister- und Weserzeitung , November 7th 2010. (Accessed December 13th 2010.)