Martin Böttger

Martin Böttger (born 14 May 1947 in Frankenhain, a village now part of Frohburg) was a prominent civil rights activist in East Germany.

In September 1983 he was arrested for a longer period for "attempted participation in a human chain during the International Day of Peace".

In 1989 he was a founding member of New Forum[2] and the coordinator of this civil rights movement in the district of Karl-Marx-Stadt.

On 13 October 2009 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony in celebration of the 20 year anniversary of Die Wende.

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