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Carl von Ossietzky

In almost every town has a street named after Carl von Ossietzky. 1931, the peace activist and Democrat, was sentenced for alleged treason. We tell you more about the person who was to reject the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to him instances of the Nazis. Carl von Ossietzky was October 3, 1889 as the only child born in Hamburg. His father died when he was three. The former employer of his father, Senator Max Predöhl, took care of school education of young Ossietzky. When Carl von Ossietzky was 13 years old, his mother married the sculptor Gustav Walther and Social Democrats.

More sense of literature as mathematics
Walther took the boys more often to political developments in the SPD. In particular, by August Bebel, the young Ossietzky was impressed. At school I was more interested in literature that in accordance with math was his bad manners. Only because of the intercession of Senator Max Predöhl was admitted to the fit test for the administration of justice in Hamburg. While in office during the day, always at your service, attended the evening and on weekends many literary events, artistic and political.
Soon began participating in the "Democratic Union" of Rudolf Breitscheid and Hellmut von Gerlach. Gradually strengthened political commitment and journalistic. He wrote the texts in which he was strong for democracy and pacifism. In 1914 he made ​​the first contact with the law.

A political family
Because he was strongly criticized in his article "The verdict of Erfurt", then military law, was sentenced to 200 brands of fine, then a lot of money. It paid the fine Ossietzky's wife Maud, daughter of an Indian princess and a British colonial official. She was very active in the movement for women's rights and with the support of her husband during his journalistic career.
The First World War, survived on the Western Front. Then Ossietzky wrote more and more against the militarization of society. He turned in his writings against the state government, describing the military. It was obviously a thorn in the side of those who tried to impose by force the German influence and secure world.
Founded in 1924, even his own party, the Republican Party. "Their goals had nothing to do with the sound similar to today's" Republicans ". Ossietzky wanted to achieve peace and freedom and democracy for all. In addition, for the common good was in the first place and not the interests of the economy.

Ossietzky enter the "world stage"
Since 1927, he was editor of the political magazine "The World Stage" by Kurt Tucholsky employees. In the magazine published the article with the time it took to jail. He had written the text, not himself, but he was the Chief Editor and was therefore charged with.
The section prohibits the Army aviation experiments. After the Peace Treaty of Versailles that the Germans were forbidden to buy an air force. The problem of justice is that the experiments were actually banned and why were there not official. But how Ossietzky now being accused of something that is not officially give unwanted?

An uncompromising fighter for peace and Freiheit Ossietzky
Finally, the military rule of then to its own breach of the law, but said this was done for the benefit of the German people and, therefore, been secret. Ossietzky was sentenced on 11/23/1931 in camera because of the secret treason a year and a half years in prison. Friends and colleagues accompanied him to the prison door, went through the "high"calls.
After the seizure of power by the Nazis, was sent to concentration camps and, like many others, tormented and tortured. In 1936 he received the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded. The Nazis gave him was to be released from captivity, when he refused to accept the full price. But Ossietzky accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, though he could not take it personally. Carl von Ossietzky died on May 4, 1938 in Berlin with the abuse of the concentration camp.

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