Brandenburg Freedom Prize

The Brandenburg Freedom Prize "serves to promote the idea of freedom." It is awarded every two years to "personalities or institutions who have made an outstanding contribution to the realization of the idea of freedom, primarily through their work in the fields of culture, religion, economics or politics." “The lender is the Brandenburg Cathedral Foundation. Natural persons or institutions can be proposed. The Freedom Prize will be awarded for the first time on October 11, 2016, the 850th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Brandenburg an der Havel , and is endowed with 25,000 euros.

Prize winners

2016 Human Rights Center Cottbus e. V., holder of the Cottbus prison memorial
2018 Housing cooperative "Bremer Höhe" e. G., Berlin

jury

The honorary jury is independent and “not bound by instructions and the submitted proposals.” It consists of up to five people and is appointed by the curator of the Brandenburg Cathedral in agreement with the sponsors. The Domdechantin or the dean of the cathedral chapter Brandenburg is statutorily chairman of the jury. The other members of the jury are appointed to three awards, although they can be reappointed.

The jury consists of the following members:

Jutta Allmendinger , President of the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) gGmbH
Jakob Hein , writer and doctor for child and adolescent psychiatry
Wolfgang Huber (Chairman), Regional Bishop i. R., cathedral dean , cathedral monastery St. Peter and Paul in Brandenburg
Christoph Möllers , Professor of Public Law at the Humboldt University in Berlin
Sigrid Nikutta , Chairman of the Board of Management and Chief Operating Officer of Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe AöR (BVG)

patronage

Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is the patron of the Brandenburg Freedom Prize .

Sponsor

The award is sponsored equally by Deutsche Bank AG and ZF Friedrichshafen AG .

Web links

Web presence of the Brandenburg Freedom Prize
Foreign Minister Steinmeier calls for proposals for winners of the “Brandenburg Freedom Prize”. Press release from the Federal Foreign Office of February 6, 2016, accessed on February 29, 2016.
Flyer for the Freedom Prize 2016. (PDF; 438 kB) (No longer available online.) In: brandenburger-freiheitspreis.de. November 2, 2015, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 .; accessed on October 12, 2018
Statute of the Freedom Prize ( PDF; 55 kB )
Website of the Brandenburg Cathedral Foundation

Individual evidence

↑ Statute, point 3.
↑ The Brandenburg Freedom Prize, accessed on February 29, 2016. "Since the world has never 'found a good definition for the word freedom' ( Abraham Lincoln ), the relevant understanding of 'freedom' and the resulting focus of To be reformulated every time the award ceremony. ” Statute, point 3.
↑ Statute, point 4.
↑ NEWS - August 9, 2016: First prize winner announced. In: brandenburger- Freiheitspreis.de, accessed on August 13, 2016 (with press links). - Brandenburg Freedom Prize of the Brandenburg Cathedral Monastery: First Brandenburg Freedom Prize goes to the Cottbus Human Rights Center. Press release. In: brandenburger- Freiheitspreis.de (PDF; 138 kB), accessed on August 13, 2016.
↑ Brandenburg Freedom Prize 2018 goes to the housing cooperative "Bremer Höhe". Press release. In: brandenburger- Freiheitspreis.de. June 18, 2018, accessed on October 12, 2018 (PDF; 340 kB).
↑ ^a ^b Statute, Item 6.

[1] Statute, point 3.

[2] The Brandenburg Freedom Prize, accessed on February 29, 2016. "Since the world has never 'found a good definition for the word freedom' ( Abraham Lincoln ), the relevant understanding of 'freedom' and the resulting focus of To be reformulated every time the award ceremony. ” Statute, point 3.

[3] Statute, point 4.

[4] NEWS - August 9, 2016: First prize winner announced. In: brandenburger- Freiheitspreis.de, accessed on August 13, 2016 (with press links). - Brandenburg Freedom Prize of the Brandenburg Cathedral Monastery: First Brandenburg Freedom Prize goes to the Cottbus Human Rights Center. Press release. In: brandenburger- Freiheitspreis.de (PDF; 138 kB), accessed on August 13, 2016.

[5] Brandenburg Freedom Prize 2018 goes to the housing cooperative "Bremer Höhe". Press release. In: brandenburger- Freiheitspreis.de. June 18, 2018, accessed on October 12, 2018 (PDF; 340 kB).

[Statut,_6-6] Statute, Item 6.