Fritz Bauer Prize
Encyclopedia
The Fritz Bauer Prize is a prize awarded by the Humanist Union
, established in 1968 in memory of its founder, Fritz Bauer
, the longtime Attorney General of Hesse
. The Humanist Union presents the award to those who have excelled in contributions to the humanization, liberalization and democratization of the judiciary.
Humanist Union
The Humanist Union is an association of German citizenship. Their targets include the achievement of a comprehensive information and more direct democracy and the constitutional abolition of the secret service protection...
, established in 1968 in memory of its founder, Fritz Bauer
Fritz Bauer
Fritz Bauer was a German judge and prosecutor.-Life:Bauer was born in Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire to Jewish parents. He attended Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium and studied business and law at the Universities of Heidelberg, Munich and Tübingen. After receiving his Doctorate of...
, the longtime Attorney General of Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
. The Humanist Union presents the award to those who have excelled in contributions to the humanization, liberalization and democratization of the judiciary.
Recipients
- 1969 Helga Einsele
- 1970 Gustav HeinemannGustav HeinemannGustav Walter Heinemann, GCB was a German politician. He was Mayor of the city of Essen from 1946 to 1949, West German Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 1950, Minister of Justice from 1966 to 1969 and President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974.-Early years and professional...
- 1971 Birgitta Wolf
- 1972 Emmy Diemer-Nicolaus
- 1973 Heinrich Hannover
- 1975 Helmut Ostermeyer
- 1976 Werner Hill
- 1977 Heinz D. Stark
- 1978 Gerald Grünwald
- 1980 Peggy Parnass
- 1981 Ulrich Vultejus
- 1982 Ruth Leuze
- 1983 Erich Küchenhoff
- 1984 Ulrich Finckh
- 1985 Rosi Wolf-Almanasreh
- 1986 Ossip K. Flechtheim
- 1988 Eckart Spoo
- 1990 Liselotte Funcke
- 1993 Erwin FischerErwin FischerErwin Fischer was a highly decorated Major in the Luftwaffe during World War II, and one of only 882 recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or...
- 1995 Hans Lisken
- 1996 Hanne Vack und Klaus Vack
- 1997 Günter GrassGünter GrassGünter Wilhelm Grass is a Nobel Prize-winning German author, poet, playwright, sculptor and artist.He was born in the Free City of Danzig...
- 1999 Helga SeibertHelga SeibertHelga Seibert was a German judge. She was a judge in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.Shortly before her death she won the Fritz Bauer Prize from the Humanist Union...
- 2000 Regine HildebrandtRegine HildebrandtRegine Hildebrandt , born as Regine Radischewski in Berlin, Germany, was a German biologist and politician . From 1959 to 1964, she studied biology at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.In 1978 she was awarded a doctorate for research on medicines...
- 2003 Dieter SchenkDieter SchenkDieter Schenk is a German author, former high police officer of the Bundeskriminalamt, and a member of Amnesty International...
- 2004 Susanne von Paczensky
- 2006 Burkhard HirschBurkhard HirschBurkhard Hirsch is a German politician and civil liberties advocate. A member of the Free Democratic Party, Hirsch spent 21 years in the German Bundestag...
- 2008 Klaus Waterstradt