Carl Richard Monday

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Carl Richard Montag (born July 26, 1929 in Freienohl , Sauerland ) is an architect and engineer, as well as the founder of the non-profit Montag foundation . His fortune goes back to his professional activity as a building contractor.

Life

Carl Richard Montag is strongly influenced by the experience of the dictatorship and the collapse of the “ Third Reich ”. The experiences during his youth made a decisive contribution to his basic understanding of freedom and democracy. The war had prevented a scholarship from being accepted at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin , which he had received in 1943 as the winner of a “music competition”. From 1946 to 1949 he initially continued his artistic career and attended courses at the Münster Werkschule. In 1950 he took over his father's craft business and became a successful entrepreneur. In 1955 he married Elisabeth Hano, who died in 1989.

The first foundation is dedicated to her memory - the Montag Foundation for Art and Society (formerly the Elisabeth Montag Foundation ), which was followed by three other foundations.

Carl Richard Montag lives today with his second wife Hella Montag-Michalik, who is interested in art and culture, in Bonn and Menaggio on Lake Como.

Act

As a result of Carl Richard Montag's entrepreneurial initiatives as a building owner and general planner, a large number of large building projects arose in the Federal Republic, such as the employment offices in Hanover, Bochum, Essen, Hagen and Halberstadt. The most extensive construction project was the T-Mobile Campus with its 5,000 workplaces in Bonn.

Carl Richard Montag founded four foundations, which are based in Bonn.

Carl Richard Montag has made almost all of his fortune available for the work of the three non-profit, operational foundations. It is administered by the Carl Richard Montag Foundation , which was founded in 2005 and, according to the will of the founder, is to be used to contribute to the development of a society in which all people have the same chance to benefit from material and immaterial goods. This claim of the Montag Foundations is expressed in the guiding principle: "Acting and shaping in social responsibility".

Awards

  • In 2007 he was honored by NRW School Minister Barbara Sommer for his commitment to children and young people.
  • In 2009 he received the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for his work as a donor.

literature

  • Carl Richard Monday: What remains. Autobiography Wuppertal 2011, ISBN 978-3-928766-98-2
  • Carl Richard Monday: The other way. Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-928766-70-8
  • Carl Richard Montag: Architecture and educational conception have to influence each other. In: Betonprisma, Volume 44, 2008, Issue 86.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Press release of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia from April 22, 2009, quoted from: Carl Richard Montag - Awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. In: Website of the Monday Foundations. Carl Richard Montag Förderstiftung, April 22, 2009, accessed May 31, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Carl Richard Monday: What remains. Autobiography, Wuppertal 2011, p. 192 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Monday, Carl Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder, building contractor
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Freienohl , Sauerland