Freimut Duve (26 November 1936 – 3 March 2020) was a German journalist, writer, politician and human rights activist. From 1980 to 1998 he was a member of theBundestag for theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was the firstOSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media from 1998 to 2003. He was lesser known on the German literary scene.
Born inWürzburg on 26 November 1936,[1][2] Duve grew up inHamburg.[1] He studied history, English literature and sociology at theUniversity of Hamburg.[1][3] In 1961, he studied Britain's colonial history in South Africa and Zimbabwe.[1] He was the supervisor of foreign students at the University of Hamburg in 1965.[1]
In 1966, Duve joined theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and became a personal assistant ofHelmuth Kern [de], the Hamburg senator for business.[4] He campaigned for the party together withGünter Grass andSiegfried Lenz.[5] He worked as a political journalist forStern magazine from 1969 and as an editor forRowohlt Verlag from 1970 to 1989, responsible for a series of political books, among others.[1][6] He published political writings byVáclav Havel, a manifesto against dictatorship in Portugal byMário Soares and yearbooks on human rights in Central and East Europe, among others.[3] Duve was a member of theBundestag for the SPD, directly elected by theHamburg-Mitte electoral district, from 1980 to 1998.[1]
Der Rassenkrieg findet nicht statt. Entwicklungspolitik zwischen Angst und Armut. Econ, Düsseldorf 1971,ISBN978-3-430-12264-1.
Vom Krieg in der Seele. Rücksichten eines Deutschen. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998,ISBN3-49960486-8.
Kulturpolitik, auswärtig. In:Robert Picht u. a. (ed.):Fremde Freunde. Deutsche und Franzosen vor dem 21. Jahrhundert. Piper, München 2002,ISBN3-49203956-1, pp. 377–383.
As editor
Kap ohne Hoffnung oder Die Politik der Apartheid. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1965.[9]
Die Restauration entläßt ihre Kinder oder Der Erfolg der Rechten in der Bundesrepublik. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1968.
Technologie und Politik. Das Magazin zur Wachstumskrise. Reinbek No. 1/1975 to No. 16/1980.
^World Report 2000: The Events of 1999 Human Rights Watch Staff – 1999 – Page 249 "The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, much to his credit, actively pushed for greater press freedom in Azerbaijan. He visited Azerbaijan in February, urging reform of libel laws and intervened in the Gakhramanly ..."
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