Carl Goerdeler Prize

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The Carl Goerdeler Prize is awarded for innovative work and achievements in the field of local science and local politics .

Foundation, endowment

At the end of the 1990s , Leipzig's Lord Mayor Hinrich Lehmann-Grube suggested the creation of Carl Goerdeler Prizes in recognition of the former OB colleague and resistance fighter against National Socialism . The Municipal Science Prize has been awarded since 1999 and is awarded to sociologists, economists, philosophers and lawyers.

The Carl Goerdeler Prize is given to young academics for outstanding dissertations or Ph.D. -Work in the field of communal science awarded. This is intended to strengthen democracy at the local and regional level in German society.

Since 2016, the practice-oriented prize for local politics and international understanding has also been awarded every two years . It honors outstanding achievements in municipal administrative practice in Europe. The award is intended to promote peaceful cooperation between regional and local authorities in Europe that unites people and promotes mutual learning for the benefit of the residents.

Individuals, institutions and projects can apply for the calls for tenders that take place each summer.

The Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation awards the prizes annually in cooperation with the city of Leipzig and well-known public institutions and universities, including B .:

The prize is awarded in Leipzig on February 2nd, the anniversary of Carl Goerdeler's death (2018 by the Lord Mayor of Leipzig, Mr. Burkhard Jung , and the spokesman for the Foundation's Board of Trustees, Rainer Goerdeler ).

Both prizes are endowed with 2000 euros in 2018 .

The winners are selected by a supraregional jury with the participation of a member of the foundation and the city of Leipzig.

Price item

The sculptor Stephan Voigtländer and Sabine Epple, curator at the Grassi Museum for Applied Art , designed the award as an upright open book (see illustration on),

“Which symbolizes the appreciation of the scientific work on topics of local politics, connected with stairs that not only stand for the search for knowledge, but also form the arch to the Goerdeler monument at the New Town Hall . Text passages from his letter to General Friedrich Olbricht of May 17, 1944 are engraved on the outside of the book in Goerdeler's handwriting . "

Prize Winner (Local Science)

  • 2000: Gerhard Schwabe and Volker Kunz
  • 2001: Elisabeth Vorbuchner and  Lars Holtkamp
  • 2002: Dietmar Bräunig and Jörg Bogumil
  • 2003: Georg Raffetseder and Ralf Daum
  • 2004: Jens Philipp Karr and Karsten Schneider
  • 2005: Klaus Lederer and Carl-Peter Kleidat
  • 2006: Nils Behrndt and Carsten Maas
  • 2007: Marion Reiser and Frank Lohse
  • 2008: Thomas Ammermann
  • 2009: Christine Hahn and Doris Holtmann
  • 2010: Petra Pfisterer
  • 2011: NALAS - Network of Local Authorities of South East Europe, Skopje
  • 2012: Renate Reiter and Torsten Schmidt
  • 2013: Alexander Kroll
  • 2014: André Göbel
  • 2015: Michael Broens
  • 2016: Andrea Walter
  • 2017: Dominik Vogel
  • 2018: David Kaufmann
  • 2019: Markus Kowalski

Prize winners (local politics and international understanding)

  • 2016: Project "German-Greek communal knowledge transfer" of the municipal council of Baden-Württemberg (President: Roger Kehle ) and the Central Association of Cities and Municipalities Greece KEDE (KEDE representative and mayor of the city of Drama: Christodoulos Mamsakos)
  • 2019: The City of Duisburg is awarded the Municipal Policy Prize for its cross-border cooperation with the Dutch city ​​of Nijmegen , which has a lasting positive impact on the lives of local people.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Website of the Institute for the Public Sector , accessed February 12, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c | Goerdeler Foundation website accessed January 30, 2018
  3. ↑ Call 2017 , accessed March 5, 2018
  4. ↑ a b c d Press release of the Foundation of February 2, 2018
  5. ↑ | OB gallery of Leipzig with reference to the Goerdeler Prize 2018
  6. ↑ a b MOZ: Doppelstadt is awarded in Märkische Oderzeitung from January 30, 2018, p. 13 or in MOZ article online
  7. ↑ a b Website of the City of Leipzig  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 12, 2018@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.leipzig.de  
  8. ^ Goerdeler Prize awarded in Leipzig , Lausitzer Rundschau , February 19, 2004
  9. ↑ Carl Goerdeler Prize for Communal Science awarded , leipzig-seiten.de , February 1, 2008
  10. ↑ Local authority network NALAS receives German award ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release from the German Embassy in Skopje @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skopje.diplo.de
  11. ↑ Dr. Alexander Kroll , Potsdam Center for Politics and Management
  12. ↑ Andreas Schneider: André Göbel convinces the city of Leipzig with a doctoral thesis on economic development , Science Information Service , February 11, 2014
  13. ↑ Award: Awarding of the Municipal Science Prize to the Unterbalbacher Dr. Michael Broens: Helpful framework for municipalities , Fränkische Nachrichten , March 10, 2015
  14. ↑ Karin Völker: Influence on the city administration: How citizens participate in decisions , Westfälische Nachrichten , January 29, 2016
  15. ↑ Dominik Vogel awarded the Carl Goerdeler Prize , uni-hamburg.de , February 15, 2017
  16. ^ A b Goerdeler prizes for communal cooperation and dissertation. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
  17. ^ The German-Greek Assembly receives the local political award from the Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation , German-Greek Assembly , February 2016
  18. ↑ Frankfurt and Słubice are awarded local political awards , Focus , January 29, 2018