{"id":17260,"date":"2021-03-22T15:09:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T14:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pointalpha.com\/?page_id=17260"},"modified":"2024-06-21T21:01:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T19:01:23","slug":"the-point-alpha-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pointalpha.com\/en\/the-point-alpha-award\/","title":{"rendered":"The Point-Alpha-Award"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; column_margin=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_tablet=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_phone=&#8221;default&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; row_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; row_border_radius_applies=&#8221;bg&#8221; overflow=&#8221;visible&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; 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In 2005, the Point-Alpha-Award was presented for the first time at the former U.S. Observation Point to George H.W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Dr. Helmut Kohl &#8211; under whose political leadership the issue of German reunification was negotiated in 1989\/90. Since then, 13 distinguished individuals have been honored with the award.<\/p>\n<p>All of those honored have rendered outstanding services to the reunification of Germany, unity, and peace. The <u>members of the Board of Trustees<\/u> are guided by the idea that the historical process of the peaceful revolution of 1989, and the background to reunification, must never be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>The award acknowledges the accomplishments of the past and simultaneously desires to point the way into the future. In particular, it wants to provide young people with role models, encourage them and give them hope. It wants to inspire them to be vigilant, to get actively involved and to help shape the future so that unity and peace are lastingly preserved &#8211; in Germany and in Europe.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; column_margin=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_tablet=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_phone=&#8221;default&#8221; bg_color=&#8221;#f9f9f9&#8243; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; top_padding=&#8221;5%&#8221; bottom_padding=&#8221;5%&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; row_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; row_border_radius_applies=&#8221;bg&#8221; overflow=&#8221;visible&#8221; id=&#8221;recipients&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; enable_shape_divider=&#8221;true&#8221; shape_divider_position=&#8221;both&#8221; shape_divider_height=&#8221;50&#8243; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; shape_type=&#8221;tilt_alt&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_tablet=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_phone=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; column_element_direction_desktop=&#8221;default&#8221; column_element_spacing=&#8221;default&#8221; desktop_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_backdrop_filter=&#8221;none&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_position=&#8221;default&#8221; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;default&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; border_type=&#8221;simple&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][carousel script=&#8221;flickity&#8221; flickity_formatting=&#8221;fixed_text_content_fullwidth&#8221; flickity_fixed_content=&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Point-Alpha-Award Recipients<\/h3>\n<p>&#8221; flickity_fixed_content_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; button_color=&#8221;Accent-Color&#8221; desktop_cols_flickity=&#8221;3&#8243; desktop_small_cols_flickity=&#8221;2&#8243; tablet_cols_flickity=&#8221;1&#8243; phone_cols_flickity=&#8221;1&#8243; color=&#8221;default&#8221; flickity_column_vertical_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; flickity_element_spacing=&#8221;default&#8221; border_radius=&#8221;10px&#8221;][item simple_slider_bg_image_position=&#8221;default&#8221; simple_slider_overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; simple_slider_bg_image_loading=&#8221;default&#8221; title=&#8221;Item&#8221; id=&#8221;1718996413803-9&#8243; tab_id=&#8221;1718996413803-1&#8243;][team_member image_url=&#8221;43336&#8243; bio_image_url=&#8221;43329&#8243; team_memeber_style=&#8221;bio_fullscreen&#8221; image_loading=&#8221;default&#8221; team_member_bio_full_html=&#8221;simple&#8221; name=&#8221;Dr. Dalia Grybauskait\u0117&#8221; job_position=&#8221;2024&#8243; team_member_bio=&#8221;Former President of the Republic of Lithuania (2009 \u2013 2019)<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Grybauskait\u0117 has made exemplary contributions to European integration and Lithuania\u2019s international relations. As an EU Budget Commissioner, she was highly regarded as a determined and strong-willed politician. She internalized the European idea and promoted the unification of countries with passion, responsibility, and foresight. 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It sees Europe as a peaceful community of freedom and strives for a united Europe of free people, nations and ethnic groups, which stands up for its interests and for the ideals of freedom and human rights everywhere in the world. Unforgotten is the &#8221;Pan-European Picnic&#8221; held by the Pan-European Union in Sopron in August 1989, a milestone that anticipated the events that led to the end of the GDR and German reunification.&#8221; social_icon_1=&#8221;fa fa-wikipedia-w&#8221; social_link_1=&#8221;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paneuropean_Union&#8221;][\/team_member][\/item][item simple_slider_bg_image_position=&#8221;default&#8221; simple_slider_overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; simple_slider_bg_image_loading=&#8221;default&#8221; id=&#8221;1718996413847-3&#8243; tab_id=&#8221;1718996413847-1&#8243; title=&#8221;Item&#8221;][team_member image_url=&#8221;33273&#8243; bio_image_url=&#8221;29426&#8243; team_memeber_style=&#8221;bio_fullscreen&#8221; image_loading=&#8221;default&#8221; team_member_bio_full_html=&#8221;simple&#8221; name=&#8221;Joachim Gauck&#8221; job_position=&#8221;2022&#8243; team_member_bio=&#8221;Former Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (2012-2017)<\/p>\n<p>Joachim Gauck already took a critical stance towards the SED regime as an Evangelical Lutheran pastor, which led him to play an important role in the GDR&#8217;s civil rights movement. As Federal Commissioner for the Stasi files, he led the office with such conviction that the agency was eventually identified with his name. After his election, he understood how to be a non-partisan Federal President of all Germans. 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As a passionate democrat and Catholic, the Prime Minister in West and East was always convinced that the division of Germany was unnatural and that freedom and unity belong together.&#8221; social_icon_1=&#8221;fa fa-wikipedia-w&#8221; social_link_1=&#8221;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernhard_Vogel&#8221;][\/team_member][\/item][item simple_slider_bg_image_position=&#8221;default&#8221; simple_slider_overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; simple_slider_bg_image_loading=&#8221;default&#8221; id=&#8221;1718996413875-6&#8243; tab_id=&#8221;1718996413875-10&#8243; title=&#8221;Item&#8221;][team_member image_url=&#8221;13519&#8243; bio_image_url=&#8221;13519&#8243; team_memeber_style=&#8221;bio_fullscreen&#8221; image_loading=&#8221;default&#8221; team_member_bio_full_html=&#8221;simple&#8221; name=&#8221;Jean-Claude Juncker&#8221; job_position=&#8221;2019&#8243; team_member_bio=&#8221;Former President of the European Commission<\/p>\n<p>The laudator, Bundestag President and Point-Alpha-Award winner Dr. Wolfgang Sch\u00e4uble, praised Jean-Claude Juncker as a &#8220;convinced European who has led the European Union through troubled waters, among other things through his commitment to the common currency, and as a bridge builder between the different nations and interests in Europe.&#8220; In his acceptance speech, Juncker emphasized, &#8220;I enjoy standing on a border that no longer exists. `{`&#8230;`}` We must take a greater interest in each other. 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With the uncomfortable truths in his songs and literary texts, he is an unrelenting champion of democracy and the Western community of values. &#8230; The expatriation of Wolf Biermann from the GDR in November 1976 `{`&#8230;`}` was one of the most formative events for the GDR opposition and the initial spark for an increasingly open criticism of the SED regime.&#8220;&#8221; social_icon_1=&#8221;fa fa-wikipedia-w&#8221; social_link_1=&#8221;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wolf_Biermann&#8221;][\/team_member][\/item][item simple_slider_bg_image_position=&#8221;default&#8221; simple_slider_overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; simple_slider_bg_image_loading=&#8221;default&#8221; title=&#8221;Item&#8221; id=&#8221;1718996413904-3&#8243; tab_id=&#8221;1718996413904-10&#8243;][team_member image_url=&#8221;13479&#8243; bio_image_url=&#8221;13479&#8243; team_memeber_style=&#8221;bio_fullscreen&#8221; image_loading=&#8221;default&#8221; team_member_bio_full_html=&#8221;simple&#8221; name=&#8221;Prof. Dr. Richard Schr\u00f6der&#8221; job_position=&#8221;2016&#8243; team_member_bio=&#8221;Prof. Dr. Richard Schr\u00f6der, Theologian and Philosopher, served in 1990 in the only freely elected Volkskammer (People&#8217;s Chamber) as Chairman of the SPD-Volkskammerfraktion (SPD parliamentary group) and was involved in the preparation of German unity.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Trustees honored Dr. Richard Schr\u00f6der as a &#8220;highly deserving, upright patriot for whom the unity of Germany and Europe was and is a matter close to his heart and whose name stands for effective cooperation between democrats across party lines; `{`&#8230;`}` a Germany-understanding person\u2018 with extensive knowledge and experience in East and West, in church, science and politics; an outstanding representative of a united Germany, whose word carries weight&#8220;.&#8221; social_icon_1=&#8221;fa fa-wikipedia-w&#8221; social_link_1=&#8221;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Schr%C3%B6der_(Theologe)&#8221;][\/team_member][\/item][item simple_slider_bg_image_position=&#8221;default&#8221; simple_slider_overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; simple_slider_bg_image_loading=&#8221;default&#8221; title=&#8221;Item&#8221; id=&#8221;1718996413924-8&#8243; tab_id=&#8221;1718996413924-4&#8243;][team_member image_url=&#8221;13475&#8243; bio_image_url=&#8221;13475&#8243; team_memeber_style=&#8221;bio_fullscreen&#8221; image_loading=&#8221;default&#8221; team_member_bio_full_html=&#8221;simple&#8221; name=&#8221;Dr. Wolfgang Sch\u00e4uble&#8221; job_position=&#8221;2015&#8243; team_member_bio=&#8221;President of the German Bundestag<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Trustees praised Wolfgang Sch\u00e4uble as &#8220;the architect of the Unification Treaty of 1990 and a great European. `{`&#8230;`}` Today, as then, Germany and Europe, democracy, peace and freedom are his guiding principles. `{`&#8230;`}` Wolfgang Sch\u00e4uble has always unwaveringly formed wise German and European policy with a sensible pragmatism, professionalism and knowledge, credibility and straightforwardness. 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Trust is an indispensable foundation for the future if Europe is to succeed. Only a few `{`&#8230;`}` in the days of November and December 1989 expressed their confidence in Germany as firmly and unshakably as you did, Mr. Gonz\u00e1les. 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