Autumn 1998
Founding of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation. 

Autumn 1999
Then Speaker of the Parliament, Wolfgang Thierse, becomes official patron of the Foundation.

December 1999
A stonemason organizes the restoration of 103 gravestones in the Jewish cemetery of Berlin-Weissensee free of charge after they had been destroyed by neo-Nazis.  When his business is subsequently trashed, the Foundation starts a fundraiser and is able to raise 60,000 Euros.  30,000 Euros are used to restore the stonemason’s damaged property and the other 30,000 Euros to establish the Stonemason's Fund for victims of neo-Nazi violence was founded.

June 2000
The beginning of the campaign "Stand Up Against Right-wing Violence." The Hamburg magazine stern begins initial fundraising for the campaign. Since then, a long lasting partnership has formed between the Foundation and stern. A highlight of this teamwork is the string of concerts against right-wing violence that has been organized by the campaign since September of 2000 (“Rock against right-wing violence”).

Summer 2000
The foundation pushes for the establishment of a federal program to combat neo-Nazi hate groups. These efforts, supported through the Berlin House of Representatives, are successful. At the beginning of 2001, the "CIVITAS- initiative against right-wing extremism in the former East Germany” emerged. Its implementation marks the beginning of a five-year program between the Foundation for Democratic Youth and the Amadeu Antonio Foundation. 

Autumn 2000
Together with the Center for Democratic Culture and the movement “Courage Against neo-Nazi violence,” the Foundation develops the innovative aid program “EXIT Germany” for those who want to leave the neo-Nazi scene.

July 2001
In collaboration with the magazine "Die ZEIT," the Foundation begins a fundraiser to help establish the Network for Democratic Culture by purchasing a house to be dedicated to Democracy in the city of Wurzen. Readers of "Die ZEIT" donate 20,000 Euros. The Foundation supplements the fundraiser with an additional 51,000 Euros, and in November of 2002 the house is bought. After almost four more years of work, this organization opens its doors in 2006.

Early 2002
A tour of schools with the members of the hip-hop/reggae group “Brothers Keepers.” The Foundation organizes meetings in areas dominated by neo-Nazis by holding classroom discussions with Afro-German musicians about everyday racism and neo-Nazi violence.

February 2003
With the support of the Foundation, the grassroots organization Barnim-Uckermark was called to life-the first such organization in East Germany with a commitment to democratic culture rooted in its charter.

April 2003
The beginning of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation’s and the magazine stern’s internet portal www.mut-gegen-rechte-gewalt.de.

June 2003
The Foundation begins to take more targeted action. It develops new ideas for the fight against anti-Semitism (www.projekte-gegen-antisemitismus.de). Furthermore, the Foundation works in cooperation with its partners to establish fundraising strategies to ensure  long-term financial security for the Foundation’s projects against neo-Nazi violence. The model of a democratic grassroots organization that operates on the communal level to fight neo-Nazi violence continues to develop (www.community-foundation.de).

July 2004
The Amadeu Antonio Foundation sets up its own fund for victims of neo-Nazi violence (www.opferfonds-cura.de). The " CURA Victims' Support Fund" provides victims of neo-Nazi violence and their relatives direct and bureaucracy-free support. It also supports the work of recognized victims' aid offices and makes them better known to the general public. The fund builds on the success of the CURA Campaign founded in 1993 by Ursula Kinkel.

September 2005
In cooperation with the campaign "Loud Against Nazis," the Foundation begins a new string of concerts against neo-Nazi violence, for the first time in areas of western Germany. In addition to this tour, the Foundation publishes an audio book with selected texts by famous authors performed by such prominent sponsors as Johannes B. Kerner and Peter Lohmeyer.

November 2006
The Amadeu Antonio Foundation, in cooperation with "Blick nach Rechts" ("A look to the Right"), oversees the Federal Authority for Civic Education’s new internet project (www.bpb.de/rechtsextremismus). This informational portal continually informs people about neo-Nazi violence through its monthly themes and publications.

April 2007
In cooperation with the Cultural Foundation of Dresden, the Bank of Dresden, Dresden's Church of our Lady, and the Freudenberg Foundation, the Amadeu Antonio Foundation offers the first Saxony Award for Democracy. The prizes go to projects and initiatives that advocate human and minority rights, that strengthen local democracy, and those against right wing extremism, racism or anti-Semitism.

You want to make a change by supporting young and committed initiatives to stand against racism and neo-Nazism? Why not make a donation to the Amadeu Antonio Foundation?