Overview

• The Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels named Schlögel its 2025 Peace Prize laureate on July 29, awarding him €25,000 and scheduling the formal presentation at October’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
• The prize jury praised him as an early voice warning of Vladimir Putin’s aggressive policies and encapsulated his message that Europe cannot be at peace without a free Ukraine.
• Schlögel’s scholarly career began with field research in the Soviet Union in 1966 and includes firsthand witness of the 1968 Prague Spring along with landmark works like Terror und Traum (2008) and Das sowjetische Jahrhundert (2017).
• He has longstanding ties to the award, having delivered laudations in 2009 and 2013 and served on the Peace Prize foundation council from 2011 to 2017.
• Born in 1948 in Hawangen in the Allgäu, Schlögel studied Slavic studies and Eastern European history in Berlin, held professorships in Konstanz and Frankfurt (Oder), and lives in Berlin.