Honoring a Champion for Human Rights: Vitali Klitschko Wins the Franz Werfel Award
Human rights activist Vitali Klitschko awarded Franz-Werfel-Human Rights Prize. - Klitschko honored with Franz Werfel Prize for his outstanding work in human rights advocacy.
Wrap your head around this: the illustrious Franz Werfel Human Rights Award is being handed to none other than Vitali Klitschko today, at high noon, right in the heart of Frankfurt Paulskirche!
As the current Mayor of Kyiv, and a renowned ex-boxer to boot, Klitschko's tireless pursuit of freedom, democracy, and human rights has earned him this prestigious honor, worth a cool 10,000 euros.
But who's gonna be dishing out the laudation for this heavyweight champ? No less than Boris Pistorius, Federal Defense Minister from the SPD party. And you can bet your boots that Boris Rhein, Hesse's Minister President (CDU), will be there too, with the event falling under his patronage.
The Franz Werfel Human Rights Award is a bi-annual event, presented by the Stiftung Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen (Centre against Expulsions Foundation), based in the city of Wiesbaden. Remember Klaus Iohannis, Romania's former President? Well, he picked up the trophy in 2023. If you're keen to discover who the other lucky recipients were before Klitschko, you might want to give the organization a call or take a peek at their official site for the inside scoop.
- Vitali Klitschko
- Human Rights Awards
- Frankfurt Paulskirche
- Boris Pistorius
- Stiftung Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen
- Wiesbaden
- Remarkable personality Vitali Klitschko, the current Mayor of Kyiv and a celebrated former boxer, was honored with the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award, a bi-annual event organized by the Stiftung Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen based in Wiesbaden.
- In light of the upcoming Franz Werfel Human Rights Award ceremony taking place at Frankfurt Paulskirche, German Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius from the SPD party will be giving the laudation for honoree Vitali Klitschko, while Hesse's Minister President Boris Rhein (CDU) will also be present, given the event's patronage.
