Ute Bock Prize for moral courage

The Ute Bock Prize for Civil Courage is awarded as a human rights prize by SOS Mitmensch .

The award has been given since 1999 to institutions and people who have made a special contribution to the protection or enforcement of human rights .

Award winners

• 1999 Ute Bock
• 2001 Wolfgang Pucher , at the invitation of Mayor Alfred Stingl in Graz City Hall
• 2002 Gertrude Hennefeld, Diakonie Advice Center for Refugees in Traiskirchen, laudation by Friedrun Huemer at the invitation of National Council President Heinz Fischer in Parliament
• 2003 Bülent Öztöplu, with Federal President Thomas Klestil
• 2004 Platform Justice for Seibane Wague , laudation by Bernd-Christian Funk , at the invitation of Hannes Tretter from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights in the Vienna Juridicum
• 2005 LEFÖ - advice, education and support for migrant women
• 2006 Marriage Without Borders, laudation Irene Brickner , invited by National Council President Barbara Prammer in Parliament
• 2008 Right to stay initiatives Upper Austria, laudation Heide Schmidt , at the invitation of Bishop Michael Bünker and Michael Chalupka in the Albert Schweitzer House in Vienna
• 2009 Elias Bierdel , Borderline europe - human rights without borders ev , laudation Corinna Milborn , the invitation was the information office of the European Parliament for Austria in Vienna
• 2011 Robert Zahrl and the anti-deportation activists Jo, Alex, Isa and Billi, laudation by Manfred Nowak
• 2013 Uwe Sailer for his courageous surveys on the right-wing extremist website Alpen-Donau.info , laudation by Peter Huemer . The refugee movement, which occupied the Votive Church at the time, was also awarded.
• 2015 Carinthian refugee worker Siegfried Stupnig and the Viennese initiative "Escape to the front"
• 2016 Angelika Schwarzmann, Mayor of Alberschwende , for successfully resisting the deportation of Syrian refugees to Hungary.
• 2018 Helga Feldner-Busztin and Rudolf Gelbard , two Holocaust survivors, as courageous role models in a time marked by a shift to the right
• 2019: Nicola Werdenigg and the Linzer Migrantinnenverein Maiz / das kollektiv
• 2020: Initiative SOS Balkanroute and Association Fairness Asylum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Ute Bock Prize for moral courage ( Memento from October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) SOS Mitmensch, Philipp Sonderegger, September 29, 2005
2. ↑ Grazer homeless pastor Pucher awarded by “SOS Mitmensch” ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. St. Georgs-Kolleg , KAB, March 2, 2001 
3. ↑ UTE BOCK PRIZE FOR CIVIL COURAGE AWARDED TO GERTRUDE HENNEFELD Parliamentary correspondence No. 408, June 5, 2002
4. ↑ Ute Bock Prize 04 ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. SOS Mitmensch, Philipp Sonderegger, February 28, 2005 
5. ↑ Ute Bock Prize 05 for LEFÖ ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. SOS Mitmensch, Philipp Sonderegger, October 17, 2005 
6. ↑ Ute Bock Prize to 'Ehe ohne Grenzen' ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. SOS Mitmensch, Philipp Sonderegger, December 5, 2006 
7. ↑ Award of the UBP 08 ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. SOS Mitmensch, jamal, June 26, 2008 
8. ↑ Ute Bock Prize 09 to Elias Bierdel ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. SOS Mitmensch, Philipp Sonderegger, November 20, 2009 
9. ↑ Policeman Uwe Sailer receives Ute Bock Prize for moral courage  ( 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. SOS Mitmensch, January 12, 2013  
10. ↑ derStandard.at - Ute Bock Prize 2015 to Carinthian refugee helpers . Article dated February 25, 2015, accessed February 26, 2015.
11. ↑ Siegfried Stupnig and “Flucht vorwärts” receive the Ute Bock Prize for moral courage . Article dated February 26, 2015, accessed February 26, 2015.
12. ↑ Schwarzmann receives Ute Bock Prize on ORF Vorarlberg on April 11, 2016, accessed on April 11, 2016.
13. ↑ SOS Mitmensch: Holocaust survivors receive the Ute Bock Prize for moral courage . In: OTS.at . ( ots.at [accessed on February 27, 2018]).
14. ↑ derStandard.at: Ute Bock Prize for civil courage goes to Nicola Werdenigg this year . Article dated March 20, 2019, accessed March 20, 2019.
15. ↑ Irene Brickner: Ute-Bock-Preis 2020: Honor for SOS Balkanroute and Fairness Asylum. In: DerStandard.at . May 4, 2020, accessed May 4, 2020 .