Berthold Leibinger Foundation
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| Legal form: | gGmbH |
| Purpose: | Promotion of culture, science, church and social issues |
| Chair: | Brigitte Diefenbacher |
| Consist: | since 1992 |
| Founder: | Berthold Leibinger |
| Foundation capital: | 16.6 million euros |
| Seat: | Ditzingen |
| Website: | [1] |
The Berthold Leibinger Foundation is a non-profit, limited liability company founded by Berthold Leibinger in 1992 . This takes on cultural, scientific, ecclesiastical and social issues. The capital stock amounts to 16.6 million euros (as of 2016). Brigitte Diefenbacher is the managing director.
Since 2000, the organization has been awarding the internationally advertised Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize for applied laser technology every two years . With the Berthold Leibinger Future Prize , the organization has been honoring outstanding milestones in research on the application or generation of laser light every two years since 2006.
Funded institutions and projects include the Museum of Modern Literature , the International Bach Academy Stuttgart , the Fellow Program of the American Academy in Berlin , the Stuttgart Children's Hospice and the “Library of Burned Books”. Since 2011, the funded Foundation at the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart , the foundation professorship effect history of technology . In 2016, the foundation supported the Federal Republic of Germany in acquiring the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles . It finances the entire interior design as well as a German-English catalog on the history of the house, its residents and visitors, the literary and political work of Thomas Mann on site, and maintains fellowships at Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles for at least five years.
In addition, the foundation has been awarding the Berthold Leibinger Foundation's comic book prize since 2014 , with 20,000 euros for the winner and 2,000 euros each for the finalists. The comic book prize is awarded annually for an excellent, unpublished, German-language comic.
Fritz Hüttinger Foundation
The foundation manages the legally dependent Fritz Hüttinger Foundation. This promotes science and research in the field of electrical energy, as well as community and civic engagement. It was founded in 2006 by Gerda and Fritz Ruf , daughter and son-in-law of Fritz Hüttinger, founder of Hüttinger Elektronik in Freiburg.
With the Fritz Hüttinger Professorship, the foundation supports the Institute for Microsystems Technology (IMTEK) at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Berthold Leibinger Foundation: Publications. Retrieved October 1, 2017 .
- ↑ "Giving something back to the country". Stuttgarter Nachrichten , June 20, 2008
- ↑ University receives endowed professorship , Stuttgarter Zeitung, November 13, 2010
- ^ Building bridges between engineering and the humanities, press release from the University of Stuttgart on September 12, 2011
- ↑ Good news for young comics , Der Tagesspiegel online, January 13, 2014
- ↑ Comic book award
- ↑ Appreciation for Fritz Hüttinger Badische Zeitung, May 2, 2010