RUNNING GERMANY - Rainer Eppelmann - Patron of the 100MilesBerlin 2011 and 2013
The same association paid tribute to Eppelmann for merits of freedom and democracy in times of dictatorship and for the peaceful revolution of 1989 and his commitment to the working out of SED injustice.
RUNNING GERMANY - Rainer Eppelmann - Patron of the 100MilesBerlin 2011 and 2013 ©100MeilenBerlin Organisation
Rainer Eppelmann decisively shaped the peaceful Revolution of 1989 and Reunification. He is a priest, a former civil- rights activist in the GDR, and was the Minister for Disarmament and Defense in the last East German government.
In early times, the Berlin-native was involved in the opposition and among other things Eppelmann actively took part in the central Round Table that accompanied changes in the GDR.
After the unification of the two German states Eppelmann was a member of the CDU parliament for several years. To date, he is also Chairman of the National Foundation for the Study of the SED dictatorship.
On 8 November 2009 Rainer Eppelmann was awarded the prize: Against Forgetting - For Democracy.
The same association paid tribute to Eppelmann for merits of freedom and democracy in times of dictatorship and for the peaceful revolution of 1989 and his commitment to the working out of SED injustice.
The patron of the 100MilesBerlin, Rainer Eppelmann, in the middle. Left and right Joerg Levermann and Alexander von Uleniecki from the Club of Longrunning Community Wall Trail.
100MeilenBerlin – Der Mauerweglauf. 17./18. August 2013
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