Rupert Neudeck
Rupert Neudeck ( born May 14, 1939 in Danzig, Free City of Danzig, today in Poland ) is a German journalist, founder of the Cap Anamur / German Emergency Doctors eV and Chairman of the Peace Corps Grünhelme eV
Life and work
He received worldwide recognition in 1979 by the rescue of thousands of Vietnamese refugees (so-called "boat people " ) in the China Sea with the Cap Anamur.
He lives in Troisdorf, North Rhine -Westphalia. There, stands on a street corner in Troisdorf- center an original boat from which he saved 1982 Vietnamese refugees. He is married since 1970 with Christel Neudeck, which greatly assisted him in his work. The couple has two daughters and a son.
After his graduation in 1958, he studied philosophy, German literature, sociology and Catholic theology. In 1961, he broke off his studies and joined the Jesuit Order. After discharge he took up the study again and closed it in 1970 from. He received his doctorate with the thesis " Political Ethics of Jean -Paul Sartre and Albert Camus " Doctor of Philosophy in 1972.
In 1971 he began as a journalist for the Catholic radio correspondence in Cologne, 1976, he then moved to the outdoor journalism. In 1977 he became editor of the Germany radio, Department of Political feature.
On the occasion of the great distress of Vietnamese refugees in the South China Sea, he founded with the support of the writer Heinrich Böll 1979, the Committee A ship for Vietnam. In 1982 it became the charity committee Cap Anamur / German paramedics eV was named after the freighter Cap Anamur, with which the crew to Rupert Neudeck total of 10,375 Vietnamese refugees, the so-called "boat people ", recorded and brought to Germany. This was followed by numerous other relief operations with the Cap Anamur.
"I never want to be a coward. Cap Anamur is the most beautiful result of the German desire never to be again a coward, but always courageous. "
Until 1998 he was a member of the board of the Committee Cap Anamur, after which he was spokesman for the charity. In April 2003, he was co-founder and chairman of the Association for International Peace Corps Green Helmets
Since 2002 Neudeck made several trips to Israel and the Palestinian territories in order, as he told to make, on the Israeli separation barrier and the situation of the Palestinians locally knowledgeable. With the ensuing publication I will no longer be silent. Law and justice in Palestine he wanted by his own admission against Israeli human rights violations, a new protest apartheid and the " monster wall " and rejected with warnings about " friendship trap Israel " the former military support of Israel by the Federal Republic from. This came in the circles of the German solidarity with Israel with heavy criticism.
In June 2010, Neudeck criticized Israel's actions with respect of issuing building permits and home demolitions in the West Bank. The occasion was the demolition bill of an organization built by the Green Helmets and become known in Germany vocational training center, between Bethlehem and Hebron. According Neudeck, it is possible for Palestinians in the area of Palestine (Zone C, which comprises about 60 % of the West Bank ) are generally not able to obtain a building permit; the internationally wrongful Jewish settlements around the area in question would, however, continue to spread.
Rupert Neudeck is an official supporter of freedom of demonstration rather than fear.