Bavarian Club
The Bavarian Club is an association that promotes the scientific examination of the culture and history of Bavaria . The Munich- based association “Bavarian Club for the Promotion of Bavarian Culture” supports many of the organization's activities.
history
The Bavarian Club was first founded in the 1920s as an informal group of friends without a legal form. The initiators were officials from politics, business, science and art who wanted to promote the culture and tradition of Bavaria - expressly with a view to all three parts of the state of Old Bavaria , Franconia and Swabia . At this point in time, the club had close ties to the deposed Bavarian ruling dynasty House Wittelsbach and monarchist tendencies.
The Bavarian Club was banned in 1933 during the National Socialist era . Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the re-establishment by former members followed. In the following decades, the club continued to see itself as an association of leaders and not as a broad organization. Members included the Prime Ministers Hanns Seidel , Alfons Goppel and Max Streibl . By 2015, the Bavarian Club had around 300 members throughout its existence.
From the year 2000 onwards, the previously loose organization became increasingly institutionalized. In 2001 the registered association “Bavarian Club for the Promotion of Bavarian Culture” was founded in Munich , which took over the sponsorship of various activities of the Bavarian Club and made them permanent. Members of the Bavarian Club do not necessarily have to be members of the Friends' Association, but they usually support it with donations.
Currently (2017), Albert Scharf , the former director of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation , is the spokesperson for the multi-member representative body of the Bavarian Club . The club also names Enno Burmeister (†) and Hermann Rumschöttel as representatives on its website (as of 2015) .
activities
The Bavarian Club sponsored scientific work early on. Since 2001 these activities have been put into fixed categories and provided with sets of rules.
High school graduate award
Since 2001, the Friends' Association has been awarding a prize in each of Bavaria's eight grammar school districts (Upper Bavaria is divided into East and West) for outstanding technical or seminar work by high school graduates who have dealt with Bavarian history, the present and culture. The definition is broad and scientific work with a regional reference has already been recognized. Each of the prizes is endowed with 750 euros. The best work is declared the state winner with double the prize money. The state's Ministry of Education and the eight ministerial representatives for the grammar schools make a pre-selection, the Bavarian Club makes the final decision on the award of the prize.
The award is presented by the President of the Bavarian State Parliament in its Maximilianeum in Munich .
Max Spindler Prize
In 2008, the funding for state history book publications, especially dissertations and habilitation theses, was transferred to a prize named after Max Spindler and given a fixed cycle once a year. Spindler was an important Bavarian regional historian and long-time chairman of the Bavarian Club. As a rule, the award ceremony takes place in December as part of the club's usual Advent celebration.
Andreas Kraus Fund
In 2013, the Bavarian Club set up a fund to promote ongoing research by students and academic staff at the Institute for Bavarian History at Ludwig Maximilians University . In particular, assistance with research at foreign institutions that take place in the context of habilitations, dissertations, master's theses is provided. The award is named after Andreas Kraus , who headed the Institute for Bavarian History founded by his teacher Max Spindler for many years.