Freimut Duve

Freimut Duve
Duve in 1979
Member of Bundestag
In office 1980–1998
Personal details
Born	(1936-11-26)26 November 1936 Würzburg, Germany
Died	3 March 2020(2020-03-03) (aged 83) Hamburg, Germany
Political party	SPD
Education	University of Hamburg
Occupation	Journalist writer human rights activist
Organizations	Stern Rowohlt Verlag OSCE
Awards	Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Freimut Duve (26 November 1936 – 3 March 2020) was a German journalist, writer, politician and human rights activist. From 1980 to 1998 he was a member of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was the first OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media from 1998 to 2003. He was lesser known on the German literary scene.