Hans Gerald Nagler (10 December 1929 – 23 July 2022) was a Swedish businessman and

human rights activist A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights. They can be journalists, environmentalists, whistleblowers, trade unionists, lawyers, teachers, housing cam ...

. Gerald Nagler was the son of the Austrian Jewish businessman Siegmund Nagler. The family moved from Vienna to Stockholm in 1931, where he grew up and graduated in 1948. He worked in, and later took over, the wholesale and import company for instruments and optical equipment founded by his father. In 1957 he became Managing Director of Handels AB Urania Stockholm. In addition, he was a reserve officer. In 1977, at the invitation of Morton Narrowe, he went to the

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to make contact with

Andrei Sakharov Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov ( rus, Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ˈdmʲitrʲɪjevʲɪtɕ ˈsaxərəf; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, nobel laureate and activist for n ...

Yelena Bonner Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner (russian: link=no, Елена Георгиевна Боннэр; 15 February 1923 – 18 June 2011) ...

Naum Meiman Naum Natanovich (Nokhim Sanalevich) Meiman (russian: Нау́м Ната́нович (Но́хим Са́нелевич) Ме́йман, 12 May 1912, Bazar, Ukraine – 31 March 2001, Tel Aviv) was a Soviet mathematician, and dissident. He is k ...

Alexander Lerner Alexander Yakovlevich Lerner (russian: Александр Яковлевич Лернер; 7 September 1913, Vinnytsia, Russian Empire – 6 April 2004, Rehovot, Israel) was a scientist and Soviet refusenik. He was born to a Jewish family in Vinn ...

and other Russian dissidents (refusniks). He then founded the Swedish

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in 1982 and was its Chairman from 1992 to 2004. Nagler also co-founded the

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in 1984 and was its first Secretary General in Vienna from 1984 to 1992. He was Honorary President of the

Civil Rights Defenders Civil Rights Defenders (Formerly the Swedish Helsinki Committee) is an international non-governmental organisation based in Stockholm, Sweden that does human rights work with a focus on civil and political rights. They primarily work to support ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nagler, Gerald 1929 births 2022 deaths Human rights activists Swedish people of Austrian-Jewish descent