Theodor Heuss Foundation

Theodor Heuss Foundation
Legal form:	non-partisan non-profit foundation under civil law
Purpose:	Awarding of the Theodor Heuss Prize and Theodor Heuss Medals, promotion of political education and culture in Germany and Europe
Chair:	Ludwig Theodor Heuss
Board of Trustees:	Gesine Swan
Managing directors:	Birgitta Reinhardt
Consist:	since 1964
Seat:	Breitscheidstrasse 48 ; 70176 Stuttgart
Website:	Website of the Theodor Heuss Foundation

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The non-partisan Theodor Heuss Foundation (spelling Theodor Heuss Foundation ) was founded in 1964 after the death of the first Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany , Theodor Heuss , on the initiative of Hildegard Hamm-Brücher and Heuss' son Ernst Ludwig Heuss . Other founders of the foundation were Adolf Butenandt , Otto Hahn , Werner Heisenberg , Golo Mann and Carl Zuckmayer .

The foundation has been awarding the Theodor Heuss Prize every year since 1965 and the Theodor Heuss Medals, which are equal to the prize (spelling with spaces in each case ), in order to promote civic initiative and moral courage. In this way, important political and social developments should be brought to public awareness at an early stage.

In 2009, under the chairmanship of Ludwig Theodor Heuss, the association was transformed into a non-profit foundation under civil law, so that the task set by the founding members can continue to be carried out over the long term and across generations.

The seat of the foundation is in Stuttgart .

Committees of the Theodor Heuss Foundation

Board

Ludwig Theodor Heuss (Chairman)
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (Deputy Chair)
Rupprecht Podszun (Deputy Chairman)

Board of Trustees

Winner of the Theodor Heuss Prize

Awarded the Theodor Heuss Prize 1970

(No prize was awarded in the years not listed.)

1965: Georg Picht (educational reform); Action atonement (reconciliation)
1966: Marion Countess Dönhoff (Ostpolitik); Bamberg Youth Ring (Against racial hatred and intolerance)
1967: Wolf Graf von Baudissin (democratization of the Bundeswehr); Ludwig Raiser (Ostpolitik)
1968: Gustav Heinemann (judicial reform)
1969: Günter Grass (political debate with radical groups); Hans Heigert (personal engagement in the church); Hans Wolfgang Rubin (Introduction to Ostpolitik)
1970: Citizens' Action for the Protection of Democracy e. V. (against NPD)
1971: Walter Scheel (responsibility in democracy); Action young people in need , Giessen (prison system)
1972: Alois Schardt and the editorial community of the weekly magazine Publik (Church and Democracy)
1972: Prop Alternative e. V. (Association for prevention , youth welfare and addiction therapy )
1973: The responsible citizen
1974: Initiative group for the care of foreign children, Munich; Initiative group of foreign residents and the play and learning groups for guest worker children, Augsburg
1975: Forum Regensburg (old town renovation)
1976: Egon Bahr (Ostpolitik), Burkhard Hirsch (parliamentary reform)
1977: Karl Werner Kieffer (ecological responsibility); Dieter Fertsch-Röver (co-determination and wealth creation in companies); Model of vocational integration and vocational training for people with learning disabilities from the Munich Chamber of Crafts
1978: Helmut Schmidt (Democratic responsibility in the face of terrorist threat)
1979: City of Castrop-Rauxel (town twinning)
1980: Terre des hommes Germany (help for children in need), Horst-Eberhard Richter (involvement in psychiatry)
1982: The memorandum of the Chamber for Public Responsibility in the Evangelical Church in Germany, "Maintaining, promoting and renewing peace" (peace policy)
1984: Richard von Weizsäcker (tolerance towards those who think differently politically, initiatives on Eastern and German politics)
1985: Georg Leber (mediation in collective bargaining disputes)
1986: Werner Nachmann (Jewish-German reconciliation and peaceful coexistence of Jews and Christians in the Federal Republic of Germany)
1987: Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich (ecological responsibility); Ralf-Dieter Brunowsky and Lutz Wicke (ecology and economy)
1988: Walter Jens and Inge Jens
1989: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
1990: Hans-Dietrich Genscher
1991: The peaceful demonstrators of autumn 1989 in the GDR (in the form of medals to selected personalities, see medals)
1992: Commissioner for foreigners in the federal states and local authorities
1993: Václav Havel
1994: The 25th German Evangelical Church Congress in Munich
1995: Hans Koschnick , retired mayor D. von Bremen (engagement in the service of reconciliation); Helmuth Rilling , Head of the International Bach Academy Stuttgart (musical bridges in many countries around the world, Requiem of Reconciliation)

1996: Ignatz Bubis , Chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany

1997: Lord Ralf Dahrendorf (for his life's work in political and humanities)

1998: Hans Küng (for lifelong commitment to religious and ethical existential issues of our time)

1999: Jürgen Habermas (for his lifelong, formative engagement in the public discussion about the development of democracy and social awareness and thus for the growth of a political culture based on democratic values)

2000: Wolf Lepenies and Andrei Pleșu (commitment to European and democratic politics)

2001: Wolfgang Thierse , President of the German Bundestag (for his exemplary commitment to strengthening our democracy as a form of government and way of life)

2003: Andreas Schleicher (impetus for a long overdue, broad and ongoing public debate about education and upbringing)

2004: Krzysztof Michalski , founder and rector of the Institute for Human Sciences

2005: Human Rights Watch New York; Meinhard Miegel , head of the Institute for Economy and Society in Bonn; Klaus Töpfer , Executive Director of the UN Environment Office in Nairobi

2006: James D. Wolfensohn , New York, former President of the World Bank (for his work against poverty and exclusion of the Roma )

2007: Rita Süssmuth and Mustafa Cerić (for their services to "Religion and Integration in Europe")

2008: Gerhart Baum , lawyer and former Federal Minister of the Interior

2010: Michael Otto , Chairman of the Otto Group Supervisory Board and Berthold Leibinger , Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Trumpf GmbH & Co. KG (for an exemplary corporate culture in both economic and ethical terms )

2011: Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (for his groundbreaking contributions to climate change and environmental protection)

2012: Wolfgang Edelstein

2013: Daniel Cohn-Bendit

2014: Christ

2015: Court of Justice of the European Union with its President Vassilios Skouris

2017: Timothy Garton Ash

2018: Yvonne Hofstetter

2019: Małgorzata Gersdorf

2020: Andreas Dresen

Winner of the Theodor Heuss Medals

Theodor Heuss Medal since 2015

Timothy Garton Ash

Theodor Heuss Prize and Medal Winner 2017

(No medals were awarded in the years not listed.)

1965: Evangelical elementary school Berchtesgaden (German-Danish school encounter), Jugendrotkreuz Roding (auxiliary services as a training ground for community spirit), Peter Gutjahr-Löser and Heinrich Sievers (student co-administration)

1966: Wendelin Forstmeier (rural school reform), Ehrengard Schramm (help for Greece), Association of German Scouts (Berlin seminar)

1967: Campaign "Student on the Country" (educational opportunities for rural children), Rainer Wagner (youth magazine "gabelmann")

1968: Karin Storch (school newspaper), witnesses in the concentration camp trials (reconciliation and coming to terms with the past)

1969: Gisela Freudenberg (model test comprehensive school), Christel Küpper (peace education)

1970: Lebenshilfe for the mentally handicapped e. V., Barbara Just-Dahlmann (criminal law reform)

1971: Hans-Hermann Stührenberg (Autobahn crash barriers), Aktion Bildungsinformation e. V. (more educational opportunities)

1972: Association for the Promotion of Community Work e. V., Association for Practiced Humanity e. V., PROP-Alternative e. V. (drug self-help group)

1973: Christian Wallenreiter (for journalistic services), Theodor Hellbrügge (disabled children), Aktiongemeinschaft Westend e. V. ( urban planning )

1974: Dorothee Sölle (engagement in the church), Thea Gerstenkorn (woman in the community)

1975: Working Group for Peace Services Laubach e. V. (active engagement for peace), model experiment "Justice - Peace" (Third World)

1977: Karl Klühspies (city maintenance), Society for Social Orphans e. V. (commitment to family-free children)

1978: Manfred Rommel (life and action in a democratic sense, characterized by liberality, tolerance and justice), Alfred Grosser ( Franco-German understanding ), Johannes Hanselmann (advocating tolerance, justice, humanity)

1979: Aid campaign Bretagne (oil disaster), Lilo Milchsack ( German-English communication ), Hans Paeschke ("Merkur" magazine)

1980: The four neighborhood helpers Unterschleißheim-Oberschleißheim / Garching / Hochbrück / Unterpfaffenhofen-Germering social service (social help), German-Turkish children's club (foreigners work), Gerhard Mauz (democracy and justice)

1981: Unemployment Initiative Stuttgart (self-help organization), project "Youth Education Work" of the Philips-Werke Wetzlar, junior working group Haßberge of the IHK Würzburg / Schweinfurt (apprenticeships in the border area)

1982: Association for Peace Education Tübingen and the Meeder community near Coburg (peace festivals), Klaus Peter Brück and Karl Hofmann for the teacher training program in Soweto / South Africa (peace between races)

1983: Renate Weckwerth and the “Regional Office for the Promotion of Foreign Children and Adolescents”, Izzetin Karanlik (German-Turkish training workshop ), Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation e. V., Hilde Rittelmeyer (German-American clubs)

1984: Liselotte Funcke (Commissioner for Foreigners), Ruth Leuze (Commissioner for Data Protection), Foundation “Die Zusammenarbeit e. V. “(funding of citizens' initiatives), Association of Youth Farms and Active Playgrounds e. V.

1985: Aktion Menschen für Menschen - Karlheinz Böhm (Help for Ethiopia), German Committee for Emergency Doctors e. V. - Rupert Neudeck (Doctors' commitment all over the world)

1986: Working group Jews and Christians at the German Evangelical Church Congress (breaking down mutual prejudices in German-Jewish relations), Tadeusz Szymański (working as supervisor and discussion partner for visitor groups in the former Auschwitz concentration camp), Förderverein Internationale Jugendbegegnungsstätte Dachau e. V. (dealing with National Socialism ), Hartmut Peters and the student-teacher project “Jews visit Jever” (German-Jewish reconciliation using the example of the hometown), Erwin Essl (German-Soviet cooperation), Eilert Tantzen

1987: Dieter Menninger and the Rheinisch-Bergische Naturschutzverein e. V. (regional nature conservation), Max Himmel Resister (ecologically responsible entrepreneur and patron for intellectual, philosophical and cultural initiatives), City of Rottweil (development and testing of environmentally friendly municipal energy and waste disposal policies)

1988: Klaus von Dohnanyi

1990: Hermann Lutz (chairman of the police union), student co-administration and liaison teacher at the Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium in Munich (used in dealing with xenophobic and right-wing extremist tendencies in and outside the school), Claus Hinrich Casdorff (German radio and television journalist ) for his journalistic services

1991: Christian Führer , David Gill , Joachim Gauck , Anetta Kahane , Ulrike Poppe and Jens Reich on behalf of “The peaceful demonstrators of autumn 1989 in the former GDR”.

1992: The initiative "Students from Brandenburg say no to violence and right-wing extremism", the "Via Regia" initiative in Görlitz and Zgorzelec (German-Polish encounter and reconciliation)

1993: The Foundation for European Understanding in Kreisau / Krzyżowa (reconciliation between Germans and Poles), the initiator Frédéric Delouche and the 12 authors of the first “European history book”, the (former) class 12b of the “Free Waldorf School Mannheim” and their teacher Anton Winter (Romania project)

1994: Hanna-Renate Laurien (then President of the Berlin House of Representatives), Wolfgang Ullmann (Member of the Bundestag Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Peter Adena (local politician, commitment against (youth) unemployment, violence), Frauenbrücke Ost-West (personal encounters between women between East and West), the 8th comprehensive school Cottbus "Muticultural District School" (joint projects with right-wing extremist and xenophobic youth and asylum seekers)

1995: The student initiative Schüler Helfen Leben (humanitarian work in the regions of civil war in the former Yugoslavia), Christian initiative for Europe with its project "Voluntary Social Services Europe" (locations at hot spots of social needs in Europe)

1996: Cem Özdemir (at that time member of the Bundestag, committed to breaking down prejudices), Maria von Welser (with the women's journal “Mona Lisa” on ZDF), initiators and creators of the peace village of Storkow / Brandenburg

1997: The Hamburg donation parliament and its initiator Prelate Stephan Reimers (realization of new forms of social solidarity through helping people to help themselves ), döMak Tauschring in Halle and its initiator Helmut Becker (through the exchange of activities and / or goods cashless cycle of supply and demand for monetary services ), Initiator of the Berlin self-help project group “Building the Future”: Dieter Baumhoff

1998: European Forum for Freedom in Education e. V. (Development of Central and Eastern European Education Systems), Peter Eigen : Founder and initiator of Transparency International e. V. (fight against global corruption), the German-Russian Exchange Initiative. V. (Development and advice of democratic social structures in Russia)

1999: Belziger “Forum against right-wing radicalism and violence e. V. "together with network" For a tolerantes Eberswalde "(engagement against right-wing extremism and xenophobia), Uta Leichsenring , former police chief of Eberswalde together with Bernd Wagner , head of the Center for Democratic Culture in Berlin (engagement against right-wing extremism and youth violence), Deutscher Frauenring e . V., State Association of Thuringia and Gisela Poelke , State Chairwoman Schleswig-Holstein (promotion of women in East Germany), Ruth Zenkert (work for street children in Romania)

2000: European Youth Parliament (developing and shaping a vibrant European democracy), Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (renewing and helping to shape our democracy)

2001: Foreign members of the International Committee of the City Council in Stuttgart (for long-term local political engagement and constructive influence on decisions on foreigner issues ), citizens of the city of Arnsberg / Sauerland and the mayor Hans-Josef Vogel (for engagement in all matters relating to coexistence with refugees and foreigners ), Network Democratic Culture e. V. Wurzen (for engagement against right-wing extremist violence and xenophobia)

2003: French school in Tübingen, Heinrich von Stephan high school in Berlin, Martin Luther school in Herten, Jenaplan school in Jena, Max Brauer school in Hamburg, Friedrich Schiller high school in Pirna

2004: Young European Federalists , MitOst e. V., PICUM (Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants) (for their commitment to ensuring that young Europeans participate in Europe, that people from different cultures get to know each other and that every person, regardless of their status, has the right to humane treatment )

2006: Pakiv European Roma Fund; Schaworalle - Hallo Kinder , ( Roma e.V. daycare center , Frankfurt / Main)
2008: Association for the Promotion of Public Moved and Non-Moving Data Traffic (FoeBuD) e. V. (for his commitment to civil rights); the editor of the Fundamental Rights Report on the situation of civil and human rights in Germany; Boris Reitschuster (journalist), soccer fan project Dresden
2009: Mayor Jörg Lutz and the local Agenda 21 projects in Grenzach-Wyhlen in southern Baden, Mayor Uli Paetzel and the Herten community foundation , Lord Mayor Markus Ulbig and the civil courage campaign in Pirna, Saxony, The First Mayor of Wunsiedel, Karl-Willi Beck and the citizens - and youth initiative "Wunsiedel is colorful - not brown"
2010: Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and Oxfam Deutschland e. V. for engagement in new types of cooperative value creation and for responsible action to achieve a fairer world.
2011: Campact , association for public relations in nature and environmental protection (FÖN) and Wikiwoods .
2012: Anti-Bias Workshop, Kinderhilfe Afghanistan e. V., Lothar Krappmann and "School without Racism - School with Courage"
2013: Finance Watch , Constanze Kurz and the participatory budget Berlin-Lichtenberg
2014: Erdem Gündüz , Shermin Langhoff , Live Music Now , Theater of Experiences
2015: Átlátszó.hu, CET Center for European Trainees, Giusi Nicolini , Maximilian Schrems
2016: Clowns Without Borders Germany e. V. , Grandhotel Cosmopolis e. V. , Kiron Open Higher Education , Welcome United 03 of SV Babelsberg and "the silent helpers"
2017: Patrick Dahlemann , Aslı Erdoğan (in absence), Dunja Hayali , Marcus da Gloria Martins
2018: the “ AlgorithmWatch ” initiative ; the digital concept “aula - design school together”; the “ Jugend hackt ” funding program .
2019: A group of the cultural alliance "Hand in Hand" from Chemnitz; Operation Libero ; Refugee Law Clinics Germany eV
2020: Initiative "Perspective hoch 3 eV - Third Generation East Germany", Jakob Springfeld, Bernhard Winter

literature

Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (ed.): Order and commitment of the middle. Benchmarks of democracy in the Federal Republic. Munich 1974.
Theodor Heuss Prize Foundation V. (Ed.): From the right use of freedom. A contemporary history reader in documents from 1964 to 1974. Munich 1974.
Paul Noack; Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, Norbert Schreiber (Ed.): The future of our democracy. Munich 1979.
Klaus Wedemeier: Courage to remember. Against forgetting. Bremen 1979.
Theodor Heuss Prize Foundation V. (Ed.): From the right use of freedom II. Munich 1984.
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, Norbert Schreiber (Hrsg.): The enlightened republic. A critical balance. Munich 1989.
Theodor-Heuss-Stiftung (ed.): Courage for civil society, 30 years of Theodor-Heuss-Stiftung. Stuttgart 1994.
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (Ed.): Our Heuss, thinking about responsibility in democracy. Speeches and texts. In: Writings of the Theodor Heuss Foundation. Volume 2. Schwalbach am Taunus 1999.
Theodor Heuss Foundation (Ed.): 35 years of Theodor Heuss Foundation, review and time announcement. In: Writings of the Theodor Heuss Foundation. Volume 1. Stuttgart 1999.
Beatrice von Weizsäcker (Ed.): "Democracy is not an insurance of happiness". Forty years of Theodor Heuss Prize 1965–2005. Stuttgart 2005.

Web links

Commons : Theodor-Heuss-Stiftung - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Website of the Theodor Heuss Foundation

Individual evidence

^ Theodor Heuss Prize for ECJ “A court of unique stature” , Deutschlandradio Kultur, May 16, 2015, accessed on May 16, 2015.
^ Theodor Heuss Foundation: Timothy Garton Ash Theodor Heuss Prize Winner 2017. May 16, 2017, accessed on October 4, 2018 .
↑ 2017: Theodor Heuss Foundation. Accessed October 4, 2018 (German).
^ Badische Zeitung: "The responsible citizen cannot be silenced" - Culture - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on October 4, 2018]).
↑ ^a ^b Digitization: Theodor Heuss Prize for Yvonne Hofstetter , Frankfurter Rundschau online from June 16, 2018, accessed on June 16, 2018.
↑ badische-zeitung.de , Kultur , April 3, 2017, Bettina Wieselmann: The responsible citizen cannot be silenced (April 6, 2017).
↑ Press release Theodor Heuss Prize 2017. (PDF) Theodor Heuss Foundation, accessed on March 30, 2017 .

[1] Theodor Heuss Prize for ECJ “A court of unique stature” , Deutschlandradio Kultur, May 16, 2015, accessed on May 16, 2015.

[2] Theodor Heuss Foundation: Timothy Garton Ash Theodor Heuss Prize Winner 2017. May 16, 2017, accessed on October 4, 2018 .

[3] 2017: Theodor Heuss Foundation. Accessed October 4, 2018 (German).

[4] Badische Zeitung: "The responsible citizen cannot be silenced" - Culture - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on October 4, 2018]).

[THP2018-5] Digitization: Theodor Heuss Prize for Yvonne Hofstetter , Frankfurter Rundschau online from June 16, 2018, accessed on June 16, 2018.

[badische-zeitung.de_3-4-017_Bettina_Wieselmann-6] sche-zeitung.de , Kultur , April 3, 2017, Bettina Wieselmann: The responsible citizen cannot be silenced (April 6, 2017).

[7] Press release Theodor Heuss Prize 2017. (PDF) Theodor Heuss Foundation, accessed on March 30, 2017 .