Dinah Radtke

Dinah Christine Radtke (born 10 September 1947) is a German activist in the disability rights movement. She is a co-founder of the Center for Independent Living for People with Disabilities (ZSL) in Erlangen.

Biography Dinah Radtke is a state-certified translator for English and French. Due to spinal muscular atrophy, she uses a wheelchair. Since the 1970s, she has been advocating for the rights and needs of people with disabilities. As a champion of the independent living movement, she co-founded the Center for Independent Living (Zentrum für Selbstbestimmtes Leben e.V.) in Erlangen in 1987 and headed its counseling department from 1997 to 2014.

In 1990, she co-founded the nationwide umbrella organization eV (ISL). In 1991, the association became a member of the international disability rights organization Disabled Peoples International (DPI), where Radtke served as vice president for several years. From 2003 to 2006, she actively participated in the negotiations on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, serving as the DPI's representative for human rights.

In 1998 she co-founded the association , a nationwide umbrella organization for disabled women, and in 1999 she co-founded the network of and for women with disabilities in Bavaria.

Honours

2000: Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2009: Officer's cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2019: Bezirksmedaille des Bezirks Mittelfranken 2019: Bayerische Verfassungsmedaille in Silber

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