Axel Springer Award

The Axel Springer Award is given annually to outstanding personalities who are "exceptionally innovative, create new markets and change markets, shape culture and face their social responsibility". The award, which does not come with a cash prize, was first presented in 2016. The winners are selected by the board of directors of the publishing house Axel Springer SE .

The winners

• 2016: Mark Zuckerberg
• 2017: Timothy Berners-Lee
• 2018: Jeff Bezos
• 2019: Shoshana Zuboff

Web links

• Homepage of the Axel Springer Award (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage of the Axel Springer Award (English)
2. ↑ Axel Springer creates the Axel Springer Award - Mark Zuckerberg is the first prize winner . axelspringer.de, January 26, 2016
3. ↑ Axel Springer Award 2017 for World Wide Web inventor Sir Timothy Berners-Lee . axelspringer.de, March 27, 2017
4. ↑ Springer Award for web inventor Sir Timothy Berners-Lee . heise.de, March 27, 2017
5. ↑ Web inventor Sir Timothy Berners-Lee honored . handelsblatt.de, March 27, 2017
6. ↑ eBuch criticizes the Axel Springer Award to Jeff Bezos: "A first-class faux pas" , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on April 11, 2018
7. ↑ Florian Gehm: The professor who has enough. In: Die Welt , November 9, 2019, p. 9. Online version , accessed on November 11, 2019.