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    Carl von Ossietzky (German pronunciation: [ˈkaʁl fɔn ʔɔˈsi̯ɛtskiː] ; 3 October 1889 – 4 May 1938) was a German journalist and pacifist. He was the recipient...
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    The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (German: Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) is a university located in Oldenburg, Germany. The first...
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  • suffragette and the wife of German journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky. She was born in Hyderabad, India, to a British colonial officer and...
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  • Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte (Berlin) [de] (ILMR) has awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Medal since 1962. The league has honored personalities, initiatives...
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    Born in Berlin, after the arrest of her father, the peace activist Carl von Ossietzky, in order to protect her from the Nazis her British-born mother sent...
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  • editorial journalist of the magazine Wissenschaft & Frieden. The Carl-von-Ossietzky-Fonds is a fund to support activists that came into conflict with...
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    Peace Prize Laureates were under arrest at the time of their awards: Carl von Ossietzky (in 1935), Aung San Suu Kyi (in 1991), Liu Xiaobo (in 2010), Ales...
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    accept the Norwegian People's Peace Prize. "Die Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medaille" [The Carl von Ossietzky Medal] (in German). Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte...
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    shared the International League for Human Rights (Berlin) annual Carl von Ossietzky Medal with journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. In 2014...
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    critical of the military. The editor of the weekly Die Weltbühne, Carl von Ossietzky, and the journalist and aviation expert Walter Kreiser were charged...
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    Mann, Ludwig Marcuse, Karl Marx, Robert Musil, Carl von Ossietzky, Erwin Piscator, Alfred Polgar, Gertrud von Puttkamer, Erich Maria Remarque, Ludwig Renn...
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    known informally as the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2001 and the Carl von Ossietzky Medal in 2008. Avnery was born in Beckum, near Münster in Westphalia...
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    the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison or detention, after Germany's Carl von Ossietzky (1935) and Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). He was the second person...
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    the original document has been in the State and University Library Carl von Ossietzky at the University of Hamburg, a gift from the Swedish singer Jenny...
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    on 16 August 1908. From 10 May to 22 December 1932, the journalist Carl von Ossietzky, who would later become a Nobel Peace Prize winner, was imprisoned...
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    and Rheinmetall for weapons forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles. Carl von Ossietzky exposed the reality of the German rearmament in 1931 and his disclosures...
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    2018. "Hannah Arendt-Archiv" (in German). Institut für Philosophie: Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018. "Hannah Arendt...
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    KPD Rudolf Opitz (1908–1939), KPD Friedrich Carl Freiherr von Oppenheim [de] (1900–1978) Carl von Ossietzky (1889–1938) Hans Oster (1887–1945) Wilhelm...
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    Charles G. Dawes (1925), Frank B. Kellogg (1929), Norman Angell (1933), Carl von Ossietzky (1935), International Committee of the Red Cross (1944), Albert Schweitzer...
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    Rieck. He is a Theodor Wolff Prize laureate, and recipient of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal. Christiane F. (1981) Circle of Deceit (1981) The Colony [de]...
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    1933, opponents of Hitler, and journalists such as Egon Kisch and Carl von Ossietzky, were held there in so-called protective custody. Spandau Prison became...
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    The journalist Carl von Ossietzky wrote: "... [the accused] did nothing but carry out the orders given him, and that certainly Colonel von Bock, and probably...
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  • peace. The prize of 1935 was retroactively awarded one year later to Carl von Ossietzky, a German pacifist who had been convicted of high treason and espionage...
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    of the last surviving orchestra members. Béjarano was awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Medal of the Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte [de] in 2004....
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    his novel Lul. For his essays on Salman Rushdie, he received the Carl von Ossietzky award from the International PEN club in 1994 and an award from The...
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    leadership of the magazine passed to Kurt Tucholsky, who turned it over to Carl von Ossietzky in May of 1927. The Nazi Party banned the publication shortly after...
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    prisoner was writer and editor of the weekly magazine, Die Weltbühne, Carl von Ossietzky, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935. Comedian Werner Finck was...
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    Prize retrospectively in November 1936 to an anti-Nazi German writer, Carl von Ossietzky.) The German National Prize was to be awarded each year to three outstanding...
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    the City of Frankfurt 1966 Carl von Ossietzky Medal Source: Jürgen Wullenweber, 1908 Offiziere, 1911 Louis Ferdinand Prinz von Preußen, 1913 Ein Geschlecht...
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    (Chemistry, 1939), Gerhard Domagk (Physiology or Medicine, 1939) and Carl von Ossietzky (Peace, 1936) from accepting their Nobel Prizes. The Chinese government...
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