Elsie Kühn Leitz Prize
The Elsie Kühn Leitz Prize is endowed with 10,000 euros by the Association of German-French Societies for Europe (VDFG) and has been awarded every two years since 1986 for outstanding services to Franco-German relations and European unification . The prize winner should use the prize money to support a non-profit Franco-German cause of his choice. The prize money of the 2010 winner, the city of Avignon, was B. used for the production of a Franco-German short film.
Elsie Kühn-Leitz was the founding president of the VDFG and comes from the Leitz entrepreneurial family based in Wetzlar .
Award winners
- 1986: Pierre Pflimlin
- 1988: Pierre Marie Paul André (1910–1989), Chartres Cathedral Chapter
- 1989: Peter Scholl-Latour
- 1991: Jacques Delors
- 1993: Hans-Dietrich Genscher
- 1995: Hans Stercken
- 1996: Joseph Rovan
- 1998: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
- 2001: Helmut Kohl
- 2003: Werner Spies
- 2005: Jean-Claude Juncker
- 2007: ARTE
- 2010: City of Avignon
- 2015: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
- 2018: Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Elsie Kühn Leitz Prize. In: Website Association of German-French Societies for Europe. Retrieved on August 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Fréquence et Vibrations tourne dans un court métrage franco-allemand. In: Midi Libre website . February 24, 2013, accessed August 25, 2015 (in French).
- ↑ Pierre Marie Paul André. In: VDFG website. Retrieved August 25, 2015 .
- ↑ News / Kramp-Karrenbauer is Elsie-Kühn-Leitz-Prize winner 2015. In: Website VDFG. February 4, 2015, accessed August 25, 2015 .
- ↑ - Federal President awarded the Elsie Kühn Leitz Prize. Retrieved on February 14, 2018 (German).