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FAQ: Taking a Stand against Antisemitism, Racism and Discrimination at Freie Universität Berlin

Prof. a.D. Dr. Rainer Kampling, Prof. Dr. Marina Allal, and Prof. Dr. Alexander Libman are the contact persons for university members affected by antisemitism at Freie Universität Berlin. You can get in touch with them via email at ansprechperson-antisemitismus@fu-berlin.de or by filling out the contact form.

More information on the contact persons for university members affected by antisemitism

You can reach out to the Diversity and Antidiscrimination Office, which offers confidential antidiscrimination counseling sessions. It is currently in the process of establishing a complaint management system. Please get in touch with the Diversity team if you would like to talk to someone about your experience: diversity@fu-berlin.de.

If you are in immediate danger or a crime is being committed, call the police. The emergency number for the police in Germany is 110. Please inform the Office of the General Counsel after the incident as well.

If action needs to be taken quickly because someone is causing a disruption, authorized individuals may call on their authority to remove people who are disturbing the peace from the premises. Here you can find a list of individuals who have the authority to ban people from the premises.

You can find information on student advising and psychological counseling at Freie Universität on this website. Information on walk-in appointments at the support.points around campus is available on their website.

There are also other counseling resources available to you outside of the university context, for example, on the following sites:

  • You can chat online with a professional any time of the day or night at krisenchat (available to young people under the age of twenty-five in multiple languages, including English and Ukrainian).
  • Nightline Berlin is a telephone hotline run by students for students who are facing a crisis or hardship.
  • In acute cases, the Berlin Crisis Service can be reached at +49 (0)30 390 63 00.
  • The Telefonseelsorge organization provides telephone counseling across Germany at 0800 111 0111. They only offer counseling services in German but have information about international helplines on their website, too: https://www.telefonseelsorge.de/internationale-hilfe
  • The “Matan” Hebrew Helpline offers telephone support in Hebrew to Hebrew-speaking people in Germany who are in difficulty or distress. They are available at 0800 000 1642.
  • Muslimisches (Muslim) SeelsorgeTelefon telephone counseling services can be reached at +49 (0)30 443 509 821. Counseling is primarily available in German, but can be provided in Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, Urdu, English, and other languages upon arrangement.

You can get in contact with the Diversity and Antidiscrimination Office. If you are in immediate danger or a crime is being committed, call the police. The emergency number for the police in Germany is 110. Please inform the Office of the General Counsel after the incident as well.

If action needs to be taken quickly because someone is causing a disruption, authorized individuals may call on their authority to remove people who are disturbing the peace from the premises. Here you can find a list of individuals who have the authority to ban people from the premises.

The Office of the General Counsel reports antisemitic and racist incidents that can be prosecuted under criminal law to the authorities as soon as Freie Universität Berlin has been notified.

Please report graffiti – along with additional information regarding the specific building and room number or a description of where you found it – to the following email address: dienstleistung@ggm.fu-berlin.de. Our colleagues at the Facilities and Properties Service Unit will do their utmost to track down and remove the graffiti as soon as they have been informed.