The Foundation - Board & Board of Trustees
The starting point and object of the foundation's work is the Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte of the same name, which today at Greifswalder Straße 4 in Berlin offers space for the current commitment to civil and human rights. Citizens' movements work in a democratic and dialogue-oriented way. Their principle is not the rationality of exploitation, but that of understanding. The bundling of social competence, as it develops among people in solidarity, is the most important force they oppose to state or private rule.
The political independence of the house is based on the work and financial contributions of its tenants*. On the one hand, the financial barriers for the use of our rooms must be kept as low as possible in order to enable many to work here. On the other hand, however, the income must secure the preservation of the house and the further work of the foundation.
From time to time we succeed in satisfying a self-imposed demand: to facilitate the start of new social movements by networking different groups and with the "free spaces" of the house. For example the anti-Hartz protests, the Monday demonstrations in East Germany in 2004, the rent and district protests or the student protests. The prerequisite for this is the stamina needed to maintain a house that does not have the rich and powerful on its side.
â–¶ Board members
Isa-Lorena Messer,
â–¶ Members of the Board of Trustees
Tobias Baur, Freda von Bussche, Reinhard Dalchow, Madelon Dimmerling, Mardela Mesias-Zeuke, Björn Mohr, Angelika Nguyen, Arkadiusz Osinski, Pia Paust-Lassen, Robert Niedworok, Andreas Schreier, Lavern Wolfram
â–¶ Sending organisations
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Amnesty International Sektion der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V.
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Bibliothek der Freien
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Grüne Liga e.V.
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Humanistische Union e.V. (Landesverband Berlin)
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Interventionistische Linke
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Verein Haus der Demokratie e.V.
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The Foundation - Statutes