The winners of the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal 2021 have been announced: The highest award of the State of Hesse this year goes to the former Federal Constitutional Judge Herbert Landau, the former Bundestag Vice President Hermann Otto Solms, the former Mayor of Rüsselsheim Ottilia Geschka and the nurse Zeynep Kallmayer.
Wiesbaden - As the State Chancellery announced on Friday in Wiesbaden, the award ceremony is planned for December 1st - the Hessian Constitution Day - in Wiesbaden.
Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) justified the choice that the four winners had “been extremely committed to democratic society and its fellow human beings”.
As a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, Landau had prepared a number of significant decisions by the Senate and “stood up for compliance with law and order for life,” said Bouffier.
Hermann Otto Prinz zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich receives the award according to the information for his entire political life's work.
He is "a highly esteemed politician".
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As the first female mayor in the history of Hesse and the first authorized representative for women's affairs in the cabinet, Geschka gave women a “strong voice”. The Frankfurt nurse Zeynep Kallmayer received the award on behalf of the "many citizens of the State of Hesse who were faced with enormous professional challenges as a result of the pandemic and who achieved outstanding mental and physical performance in the care sector". "It is thanks to people like Zeynep Kallmayer that we are mastering this pandemic so well," said the Prime Minister.
The Wilhelm Leuschner Medal has been honoring people who have stood up for democracy, freedom and social justice in an exemplary manner since 1965.
Most recently it went to the Kassel bishop Martin Hein, the former state parliament president Norbert Kartmann, the former mayor of Frankfurt Andreas von Schoeler and the Frankfurt writer Minka Pradelski.
Name giver Wilhelm Leuschner was one of the most important Hessian resistance fighters against the Nazi regime.
After the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in 1944, he was sentenced to death and executed.
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