The Fritz Bauer Prize (german: Fritz Bauer-Preis) is a prize awarded by the
Humanist Union
The Humanist Union (German: ''Humanistische Union'', HU) is a German civil rights organization. Their targets include the enforcement of freedom of information, direct democracy and the abolition of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Con ...
, established in 1968 in memory of its founder,
Fritz Bauer
Fritz Bauer (16 July 1903 – 1 July 1968) was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor. He was instrumental in the post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann and played an essential role in beginning the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials ...
, the longtime Attorney General of
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...
. 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 Heinemann
Gustav Walter Heinemann (; 23 July 1899 – 7 July 1976) was a German politician who was President of West Germany from 1969 to 1974. He served as mayor of Essen from 1946 to 1949, West German Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 1950, and Mini ...
* 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
Ruth Peggy Sophie Parnass (born 11 October 1927) is a German-Swedish actress, columnist, court reporter, short story writer and non-fiction writer who now lives in Hamburg.
Biography
Born in Hamburg in 1927, she was the daughter of Herta Emanuel ...
* 1981
Ulrich Vultejus
* 1982
Ruth Leuze
* 1983
Erich Küchenhoff
* 1984
Ulrich Finckh
* 1985
Rosi Wolf-Almanasreh
* 1986
Ossip K. Flechtheim Ossip Kurt Flechtheim (March 5, 1909 – March 4, 1998) was a German jurist, political scientist, author, futurist, and a humanist. He is credited with coining of the term "Futurology".
Early life
Flechtheim was born in Nikolaev (then Russian Emp ...
* 1988
Eckart Spoo
* 1990
Liselotte Funcke
Liselotte Funcke (20 July 19181 August 2012) was a German liberal politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). She was a member of the German Bundestag parliament from 1961 to 1979, serving as its vice president from 1969. She then was appoi ...
* 1993
Erwin Fischer
* 1995
Hans Lisken
* 1996
Hanne Vack und
Klaus Vack
* 1997
Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He was born in the Free City of Da ...
* 1999
Helga Seibert
* 2000
Regine Hildebrandt
Regine Hildebrandt (née Radischewski; 26 April 1941 – 26 November 2001) was a German biologist and politician (Social Democratic Party of Germany).
Life
Early years
Wartime in Germany
Regine Radischewski was born in Berlin during the war, t ...
* 2003
Dieter Schenk
* 2004
Susanne von Paczensky
* 2006
Burkhard Hirsch
Burkhard Hirsch (29 May 1930 – 11 March 2020) was a German politician and civil liberties advocate. A member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), Hirsch spent 21 years in the Bundestag (1972–1975, 1980–1998). He also served five years as Mi ...
* 2008
Klaus Waterstradt
* 2010
Helmut Kramer
* 2012
Joachim Perels
* 2014
Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American and naturalized Russian former computer intelligence consultant who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013, when he was an employee and su ...
* 2016 Gefangenen-Gewerkschaft/Bundesweite Organisation
* 2018
Hans-Christian Ströbele
Hans-Christian Ströbele (; 7 June 1939 – 29 August 2022) was a German politician and lawyer. He was a member of Alliance 90/The Greens, the German green party.
Education and early career
Ströbele was born on 7 June 1939 in Halle, Saale, t ...
External links
Official site
German awards
Awards established in 1968
1968 establishments in West Germany
{{Germany-stub