Axel Springer SE is a European multinational mass and online media company, based in Berlin, Germany. The company is organized as a societas Europaea (SE) publishing house and is one of the largest mass media publishers in the European Union, with numerous multimedia news brands such as Business Insider, Politico, The Daily Telegraph, or the price comparison service Idealo.
Axel Springer can rightfully say they’ve been a significant part of the rise of neonazis in all their iterations up to and including the AfD in Germany throughout the decades. This is just one more guy, who in fact paid to get this award.