The (ILMR) has awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Medal since 1962. The league has honored personalities, initiatives or organizations who have worked with civil courage and outstanding commitment to the realization of human rights annually since 1962 and at least once every two years from 2011 with the Carl von Ossietzky Medal it donated. The award is named after the German pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Carl von Ossietzky, who died in 1938 as a result of imprisonment in a concentration camp.
Recipients
1962: Otto Lehmann-Russbüldt 1963: 1964: Joseph Wulf 1965: Heinrich Grüber 1966: Fritz von Unruh 1967: Günter Grass 1968: Kai Hermann 1969: Robert Kempner 1970: Walter Fabian 1971: Walter Schulze for the Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg 1972: Carola Stern – Amnesty International 1973: Helmut Gollwitzer 1974: Heinrich Böll 1975: Heinrich Albertz 1976: Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan, Ciaran McKeown for Peace People, Ireland 1977: Willi Bleicher, Dr. Helmut Simon 1978: Rudolf Bahro 1979: Fritz Eberhard, Axel Eggebrecht 1980: Ingeborg Drewitz 1981: Gert Bastian 1982: William Borm 1983: Heinz Brandt, Martin Niemöller 1984: Günter Wallraff 1985: Lea Rosh 1986: Erich Fried 1987: Eberhard Carl, Eckart Rottka, Imme Storsberg – Richter und Staatsanwälte für den Frieden 1988: Klaus Bednarz 1989: Antje Vollmer, Friedrich Schorlemmer 1990: 1991: Liselotte Funcke 1992: Wolfgang Richter, Thomas Euting, Dietmar Schumann, Thomas Höper, Jürgen Podzkiewitz, Jochen Schmidt – ZDF editorial team Kennzeichen D 1993: Aziz Nesin, Karl Finke 1994: and the Grips-Theater Berlin 1995: Jacob Finci for La Benevolencija; Hans Koschnick 1996: The Saturday women of Istanbul 1997: Hannes Heer for the team of the exhibition Wehrmachtsausstellung 1998: Madjiguène Cissé und Les Collectifs des SANS-PAPIERS 1999: Simin Behbahani und Monireh Baradaran 2000: Brandenburger Flüchtlingsinitiative, Association Opferperspektive and Tagesspiegel editor Frank Jansen 2001: Ökumenische Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Asyl in der Kirche 2002: Eberhard Radczuweit und Marina Schubarth for their work at KONTAKTE-Контакты e.V., Association for contacts with countries of the former Soviet Union 2003: publicist Gerit von Leitner and the citizens' initiative Freie Heide 2004: Percy MacLean, Esther Béjarano, Peter Gingold, 2005: Mechthild Niesen-Bolm and Inge Wannagat and the leisure and advice center Die Arche – Christliches Kinder- und Jugendwerk in Berlin 2006: lawyer Bernhard Docke and major Florian Pfaff 2007: Legal Team/Emergency lawyer service for the G8 protests in Heiligendamm 2008: The Palestinian village's Bil'in Citizens Committee and the Anarchists Against the Wall 2009: Mouctar Bah and Stefan Schmidt, Captain of the Cap Anamur 2010: Mordechai Vanunu 2011: no award 2012: Peter Lilienthal 2013: no award 2014: Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras und Glenn Greenwald 2015: no award 2016: SOS Méditerranée und Kai Wiedenhöfer 2018: Leyla İmret und social worker Ottmar Miles-Paul 2020: Otfried Nassauer
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