Tilman Zülch, Senior Associate

born 1939 in the Sudetenland, is founder and President of the Society for Threatened Peoples International (GfbV). Study of economics and politics in Hamburg, 1968 foundation of the Aktion Biafra-Hilfe, from which the GfbV emerges 1970. Since then active as human rights activist, supporting oppressed minorities worldwide. Conversion of the GfbV into the internationally recognized, second-largest human rights organization in Europe. Author of numerous publications and reports, editor of the journal pogrom, specialized on the situation of ethnic and religious minorities and indigenous peoples. Numerous awards, among them the silver medal of the Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina, the Göttinger Friedenspreis and the order of the Federal Republic of Germany. He has been a supporter of KDUN since its establishment in 2003.