Tilman Zülch
Tilman Zülch is Co-Founder and President of the Society for threatened Peoples/Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV). Born on September 2nd 1939 in Deutsch-Libau, Sudetenland, (Northern Moravia, currently Czech Republic), Tilman Zülch was actively involved in the German Youth Movement between 1955 and 1960 and studied Politics and Economics in Graz, Heidelberg and Hamburg in the years 1961-1967.
In 1968 in response to the genocide of the Ibos in Nigeria, together with Dr. Klaus Guercke, Tilman Zülch founded Aktion Biafra-Hilfe in Hamburg and after an onsite visit during 1969, in 1970 the organisation Aktion Biafra-Hilfe was renamed Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker.
The commitment to human rights means for Tilman Zülch a commitment to campaign for persecuted minorities. He regards this as an obligation to speak out on behalf of religious and ethnic persecuted people, an obligation that derives, for Germany and Austria above all, from the crimes committed by the National Socialists.
Mr. Zülch has been awarded the Geo Environment Prize (1982), the Lower Saxony Prize for Journalism (1996), the Silver Order of the Arms of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996), the Annual Award of the Federation of Expulsees (2001), the Federal Cross of Merit (2002), the Human Rights Prize of the Sudeten Germans Welfare and Culture Association (2003), the Göttingen Peace Prize in recognition of his lifetime work (2003), the Medal of the Iraqi-Kurdish National Assembly (2005), the «Srebrenica Award against Genocide» of the Three Womens' and Mothers' associations (2006) and the Sarajevo Anti-War Centre's Freedom Prize for Human Rights (2006).
Tilman Zülch is an Honorary Member of the Saxony-Anhalt Federation of the Victims of Stalinist Persecution and the Union of Women Camp Detainees of Bosnia Herzegovina as well as a member of the Jury for the Weimar Human Rights Prize and the Centre against Expulsions Supporters Association.
In 1968 in response to the genocide of the Ibos in Nigeria, together with Dr. Klaus Guercke, Tilman Zülch founded Aktion Biafra-Hilfe in Hamburg and after an onsite visit during 1969, in 1970 the organisation Aktion Biafra-Hilfe was renamed Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker.
The commitment to human rights means for Tilman Zülch a commitment to campaign for persecuted minorities. He regards this as an obligation to speak out on behalf of religious and ethnic persecuted people, an obligation that derives, for Germany and Austria above all, from the crimes committed by the National Socialists.
Mr. Zülch has been awarded the Geo Environment Prize (1982), the Lower Saxony Prize for Journalism (1996), the Silver Order of the Arms of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996), the Annual Award of the Federation of Expulsees (2001), the Federal Cross of Merit (2002), the Human Rights Prize of the Sudeten Germans Welfare and Culture Association (2003), the Göttingen Peace Prize in recognition of his lifetime work (2003), the Medal of the Iraqi-Kurdish National Assembly (2005), the «Srebrenica Award against Genocide» of the Three Womens' and Mothers' associations (2006) and the Sarajevo Anti-War Centre's Freedom Prize for Human Rights (2006).
Tilman Zülch is an Honorary Member of the Saxony-Anhalt Federation of the Victims of Stalinist Persecution and the Union of Women Camp Detainees of Bosnia Herzegovina as well as a member of the Jury for the Weimar Human Rights Prize and the Centre against Expulsions Supporters Association.
