(kreuz.net) The community service Comenius-Foundation has withdrawn the prize conferred on alleged educational reformer Hartmut von Hentig, which was originally given to him in 1994 on 18 October.
The 'Frankfurter Allgemeinen' reported this on Thursday.
The prize of the Comenius Foundation was given for the support of needy children and youth.
Homosexual, Child abuser, Atheist
Von Hentig has been celebrated for decades in Germany as the left-liberal star pedagogue.
He lived with the child abuser and director of the Hessian Odenwaldschule, Gerold Becker in a homosexual relationship.
But there's more, von Hentig is a member of the board of the German anti-Church organization "Humanistische Union'.
Attacks instead of Information
The money associated with the Comenius prize at that time of 20,000 D-Mark had to be passed, according to the statutes of the prize winners, to needy young people.
Hentig directed the money toward both institutions Odenwaldschule and Helene-Lange School in Wiesbaden, which have been notorious in the past for child abuse.
When the Comenius Foundation came to know of the offenses in those schools, they asked for clarification from Hentig.
But Hentig and the administrators of these schools accused the founder and chairman of the foundation of "prejudice".
The Foundation presented three questions about his possible homosexual involvement as well as regarding the homosexual rape of children in the Odenwald School.
Hentig left them unanswered.
Therefore, the Foundation came to the conclusion that Hentig was only prolonging his "concealment, trivializing and covering up".
It asked him to transfer the prize money then into the victims' fund of the Odenwald School, "so that at least one substantive gesture of reparation will be apparent."
"So that's one of those boys'
In 2010, former students from Odenwaldschule accused Hentig.
As Becker's homosexual partner, he was involved with the school and didn't work out.
He is said to have overnighted with at least one of Becker's victims.
The Odenwald victim Jürgen Dehmer describes in his book "How loud should I scream?", that he met Hentig sitting in Becker's living room, while the latter sat in a flat leather chair:
"I had just gone through Becker's apartment to smear me a loaf of bread, or perhaps to get something to drink, when Hentig looked at me with a penetrating, almost greedy eye. He looked at me, he looked at Becker, back to me and said, "So that's one of those boys."!
Von Hentig had stated in the past that the child abuser Becker is perhaps the object of child seduction.
On 21 October, he was to give a paper on Golo Mann- despite his history - in the German National Library in Frankfurt at the invitation of 'Golo Mann Society'.
He cancelled his appearance, when he learned that abuse victims were planning a demonstration to ask him to account for himself.
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