Fritz Bauer Prize

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The Fritz Bauer Prize (German : Fritz Bauer-Preis) 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.

German is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol (Italy), the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and Liechtenstein. It is also one of the three official languages of Luxembourg and a co-official language in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland. The languages which are most similar to German are the other members of the West Germanic language branch: Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German/Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish. There are also strong similarities in vocabulary with Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although those belong to the North Germanic group. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language, after English.

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. The separation of church and state is part of its program, it takes a critical stance according to ecclesiastical privileges and the church religious education. The Humanist Union was founded in 1961 in Munich and is the oldest existing civil rights organization of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has about 1,200 members. The Humanist Union is a member of the European Civil Liberties Network. It has awarded the Fritz Bauer Prize since 1968.

Fritz Bauer was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor who played an essential role in starting the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.

Recipients

1969 Helga Einsele
1970 Gustav Heinemann
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 Fischer
1995 Hans Lisken
1996 Hanne Vack und Klaus Vack
1997 Günter Grass
1999 Helga Seibert
2000 Regine Hildebrandt
2003 Dieter Schenk
2004 Susanne von Paczensky
2006 Burkhard Hirsch
2008 Klaus Waterstradt
2010 Helmut Kramer
2012 Joachim Perels
2013 Edward Snowden

Gustav Walter Heinemann 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.

Ruth Peggy Sophie Parnass is a German-Swedish actress, columnist, court reporter, short story writer and non-fiction writer who now lives in Hamburg.

Ossip Kurt Flechtheim was a German jurist, political scientist, author, futurist, and a humanist. He is credited with coining of the term "Futurology".

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