Augsburg Peace Prize
The Augsburg Peace Prize is awarded every three years to personalities who have rendered outstanding services to the tolerant and peaceful coexistence of cultures and religions. The prize is endowed with 12,500 euros. It was founded in 1985 by the city of Augsburg and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria on the occasion of the Augsburg High Peace Festival. Because Augsburg celebrated the 450th anniversary of the religious peace in Augsburg in 2005, the award ceremony that was due for 2006 was brought forward as an exception.
Award winners
- 1985: Hermann Kunst , German military bishop
- 1988: Chiara Lubich , Rome, founder of the Focolare Movement
- 1991: Nathan Peter Levinson , State Rabbi of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein
- 1994: Richard von Weizsäcker , former Federal President
- 1997: Alfons Nossol , Archbishop in Opole / Poland
- 2000: Sumaya Farhat-Naser , peace broker in the West Bank
- 2003: Helmut Hartmann , founder of the Forum for Intercultural Living and Learning (FILL)
- 2005: Michail Gorbatschow , Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1990 and former head of state of the Soviet Union as well as Christian Führer , pastor of the Leipzig Nikolaikirche
- 2008: Hassan bin Talal , Prince of Jordan and former President of the Club of Rome
- 2011: Pope Schenuda III. of Alexandria , head of the Coptic Church
- 2014: Lea Ackermann , Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa and founder of the international organization SOLWODI
- 2017: Martin Junge , pastor, general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
- 2020: to the Catholic Archbishop of Munich Cardinal Marx and the Protestant Bavarian regional bishop and EKD council chairman Bedford-Strohm
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Augsburg Peace Prize - honor for Marx and Bedford-Strohm. In: Deutschlandfunk . August 8, 2020, accessed August 9, 2020 .