two of The GBM itself sees itself as a party independently
The society for the protection of civil rights and human dignity (GBM) was onMay in Berlin by the former Employees of the Stasi, dismissed DDR-scientists, artists, and GDR-lawyers founded. In December, the Association is registered in the register of the local court of Charlottenburg. two political scientists, historians and victims associations of the GDR-dictatorship to throw the GBM and in particular the Stasi-insider Committee a GDR-apology in the primitive sense, geschichtsk suffered, and historical revisionism. three four five members of the Association organized interference of the guided tours through the memorial site Berlin-Hohenschönhausen.
The Logo was designed by the GDR artist Walter Wojack
six seven, The GBM was from, the quarterly magazine for social theory, human rights and culture: Icarus, the appearance of which was discontinued in due to financial reasons. Furthermore, the accents, the monthly newspaper of the GBM appears.
In addition, the GBM to the editor of various political books about the post-reunification period as well as some cartoon volumes.
According to the assessment of the constitutional protection, Berlin"the GBM-publications a significant distance, the authors of the Federal Republic of Germany and its political System“. two important for the Public image of older persons with and without SED-squad-past, which have lost after, their Offices, or Reputation, as members of the GDR functional elite, or as artists, scientists or lawyers. In, the GBM has natural members in thirty Chapters in the East of Germany. As corporate members of various other associations, including the society for Legal and Humanitarian support are connected. The members of which are considered to be among the GBM-members. The GBM-mark is a blue Rose. two of The historian Christian von Ditfurth to be filed in, the GBM, which are closely intertwined with the PDS, as well as the company Legal and Humanitarian support, and the speculative community for the protection of social rights. eight Identical also in the GDR were civil rights activists of the Konrad-and-White nine and the Thuringian Ministry of social Affairs, the Stasi, said that people today would be well-organised in associations such as the society for citizens rights and of the people or of the society for legal and humanitarian support. ten of The historian Hubertus Knabe, to be referred to the members in as a"GDR nostalgics", the activity"is an organised struggle for the interests of the Stasi and the SED cadres". eleven In a publication of the Bavarian state Central office for political education work, she was listed as an example for organizations that deal with the political and legal support from the SED and MfS - Active.
twelve, the GBM obtained by a court judgment, an injunction against the author Anna Finder, in your book, Stasi land allegations against the GBM collected.
thirteen of The NDR undertook,"in the future, to claim or to spread the Stasi would have founded would be officers of the society for the protection of civil rights and people". The Will was in the talk show, Anne (shipment, wrong goes by: the long shadow of the GDR on. September) has been claimed Berlin's interior administration saw the GBM as a"merger of old Stasi members", the System of the GDR justified. fourteen of The Berlin protection of the Constitution estimated that:"The democracy and legitimacy of the understanding of the GBM is still the of the SED from to."He sees the GBM as a"platform for people who have lost after, their Offices, or Reputation, as members of the GDR functional elite, or as artists, scientists or lawyers". five ten As the highest purpose called the Association for the"protection of human dignity", the"uncovering of human rights violations"and"contributions to the internal unit Of Germany“.
The protection of the Constitution of the state of Berlin was estimated in that"in the forefront of the Association's work.
the preservation of the GDR tradition stocks. “ two In may, the GBM to the UN Committee on economic, social and cultural rights, a complaint about the violation of economic and social Rights, particularly of people in the Eastern States, sixteen of the Committee, in its report of. July, took part seventeen In an article of the mirror. July, criticised the functioning of the Committee. eighteen of The GBM held exhibitions"the pension office hours"and art. In, a directory of artists of the GDR, was presented. twenty After the GBM was in vain been requested to publicly dissociate themselves from the Utterances to the construction of the wall, where the GDR border was justified regime, it was at. May from the human rights Forum excluded. twenty-two of The GBM awards an annual human rights prize that is awarded according to the assessment of the Berlin Constitution protection of ideologically related parties. two Previous award winners are.
