Florence Hervé

Florence Hervé (born 17 April 1944) is a Franco-German journalist, historian and feminist activist. In the words of one commentator, she "moves in a space between scholarship and journalism". Since 1993 she has also appeared regularly on broadcast media.

In 2014 the German government wanted to award her the "Bundesverdienstkreuz". She rejected the state decoration explaining in an open letter to the then President of Germany Joachim Gauck that although the honour came in recognition of her many years of unpaid work on women's issues and policies, along with Franco-German co-operation and international co-operation more generally, her work had frequently placed her in direct opposition to whichever one of a succession of German governments was in power at the time. Provided by Wikipedia