Legacy
Supporters of convicted Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu and Nobel prize winning Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo have compared them to Ossietzky.
The International League for Human Rights (ILHR) awards an annual Carl von Ossietzky Medal "to honor citizens or initiatives that promote basic human rights."
In 1963, East German television produced the film Carl von Ossietzky about Ossietzky's life, starring Hans-Peter Minetti in the title role.
Carl von Ossietzky was portrayed in the comic series Berlin by Jason Lutes.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)