Ulli Thiel

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Ulli Thiel (born December 8, 1943 in Plöhn , † April 10, 2014 in Karlsruhe ) was a German educator . He became known as a pacifist peace activist and idea generator of the peace movement .

Life

Thiel had been married to Sonnhild Thiel since 1966, with whom he had three children. Until his retirement in 2007 he worked as a special school teacher at the Erich-Kästner School for hearing-impaired and speech-impaired children in Karlsruhe. In 1982 the senior class he supervised won a prize at the Federal President's history competition on the spectrum of everyday life under National Socialism - The War Years in Germany with the project Learning from history for the future: Never again fascism!

From 1968 Ulli Thiel was active in the German Peace Society - United War Resisters (DFG-VK). In the 1970s and 1980s, he and his wife Sonnhild were part-time state managing directors of the DFG-VK Baden-Württemberg. According to the news magazine Der Spiegel , Thiel was "one of the first West German people to do community service" in the mid-1960s. He justified "his pacifist sentiments with the Christian faith" and organized numerous demonstrations and actions against war and rearmament. Thiel advised "thousands of conscientious objectors" on their upcoming examination procedure and "endured", according to Der Spiegel, "house searches and preliminary investigations".

Ulli Thiel became known for his coining of the slogan of the peace movement Peace without Weapons in 1978 and as the initiator of the largest human chain of the peace movement to date , on which around 400,000 people gathered between Stuttgart and Neu-Ulm on October 22, 1983 to oppose the stationing of Demonstrate Pershing missiles and cruise missiles .

The Ulli-Thiel Peace Prize is being announced for the first time for the 2019/2020 school year for schoolchildren in Baden-Württemberg, jointly by the German Peace Society / United War Service Opponents (DFG / VK) and the Evangelical Church in Baden . Texts, pictures, collages and other free works that touch on the motto “Creating peace without weapons” created by Ulli Thiel can be awarded.

literature

  • Died: Ulli Thiel . In: Der Spiegel No. 17/2014 of April 19, 2014
  • Elvira Weisenburger: leading figure of the peace movement. Ulli Thiel initiated the human chain from Stuttgart to Ulm in the hot autumn of 1983 (= Karlsruhe and his heads, episode 77). In: Badische Latest News from 4./5. April 2015, p. 23

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prize- winning student contributions from the 1982/83 competition: Everyday Life in National Socialism - The War Years in Germany , p. 8f.
  2. ↑ Died: Ulli Thiel . In: Der Spiegel No. 17/2014 of April 19, 2014.
  3. ↑ Ulli Thiel Peace Prize
personal data
SURNAME Thiel, Ulli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION pacifist peace activist and initiator of the peace movement
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Plan
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2014
Place of death Karlsruhe