Ivan Miloš Havel (11 October 1938 – 25 April 2021) was a Czech scientist and philosopher. He was the brother of President

Václav Havel Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as ...

, with whom he was one of the founders of the

Civic Forum The Civic Forum (Czech: ''Občanské fórum'', OF) was a political movement in the Czech part of Czechoslovakia, established during the Velvet Revolution in 1989. The corresponding movement in Slovakia was called Public Against Violence ( Slovak: ...

. In years 1990–2019, he was the editor-in-chief of '' Vesmír''. In a joint award for 2019/2020 commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the fall of

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, Havel was awarded the

Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award The Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award is given annually to honor individuals who have dedicated their lives to public service. It was established in 2000 by the Prague Society for International Cooperation and thGlobal Panel Foundation It is ...

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Ivan Chvatik
(19th) and

Hans-Dietrich Genscher Hans-Dietrich Genscher (21 March 1927 – 31 March 2016) was a German statesman and a member of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1969 to 1974, and as Federal Minister for Foreign Affa ...

and

Markus Meckel Markus Meckel (born 18 August 1952) is a German theologian and politician. He was the penultimate foreign minister of the GDR and a member of the German Bundestag. Early life Markus Meckel was born on 18 August 1952 in Müncheberg, Brandenburg. ...

(20th) by the Prague Society and Global Panel Foundation.

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Memory of nations: Doc. Ivan Miloš Havel
1938 births 2021 deaths Czechoslovak scientists Czech philosophers Civic Forum politicians Czech Technical University in Prague alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Academic staff of Charles University People from Prague {{CzechRepublic-scientist-stub