Carl von Ossietzky

Carl von Ossietzky (October 3, 1889 – May 4, 1938) was a radical German pacifist and the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize. He was convicted of high treason and espionage in 1931 after publishing details of Germany's alleged violation of the Treaty of Versailles by training troops and sailors in the Soviet Union. In 1990 his daughter, Rosalinda von Ossietzky-Palm, called for a resumption of proceedings, but the complaint she filed was finally rejected by the German Supreme Court in 1992.

Further reading

• Burger, Felix : Carl von Ossietzky (Zürich, 1937)
• Singer, Kurt: Carl von Ossietzky: Fredshelten i Koncentrationslejren (1937) (online text, in Danish)
• Sternburg, Wilhelm von: "Es ist eine unheimliche Stimmung in Deutschland." Carl von Ossietzky und seine Zeit (Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 1996).