Alexandra Hildebrandt
Alexandra Hildebrandt (née Weissmann on 27 February 1959 in Kyiv) is a German human rights activist and museum director of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. In 1995, she married the museum's co-founder and former director Rainer Hildebrandt, and they remained married until his death in 2004. She is internationally noted for leading the construction of the Freedom Memorial, which was controversially demolished in 2005. The focus of Alexandra Hildebrandt's work is the preservation and advancement of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, the rehabilitation of the victims of the GDR-Regime, and the clarification of more destinies of  refugees who suffered death at the East–west border. In 2004 she endowed the international human rights award, the "Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Medal", which is given annually in recognition of extraordinary, non-violent commitment to human rights.<ref name="diplomatisches-magazin.de 2012/02"></ref> From 2010 until 2013, Hildebrandt worked to secure the release of oligarch turned political activist, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Initially she started with an exhibition in her Checkpoint Charlie Museum, to raise awareness about the fate of Mr Khodorkovsky after Khodorkovskys lawyers and family asked her for help. Eventually, she involved former German Foreign Secretary, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, in her international  campaign to free Khodorkovsky. In 2013 Khodorkovsky was released from prison after serving some ten years. Hildebrandt married anew in 2016 and has eight child. Laureates - Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award. Members of the jury include: Henry Kissinger, Joachim Gauck, Avi Primor, James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, Sara Nachama and Rainer Haushofer (nephew of Albrecht Haushofer).