David Ben-Gurion Foundation in Germany
| David Ben-Gurion Foundation in Germany | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Foundation, endowment |
| founding | 2008 |
| founder | Waltraut Rubien and others |
| Seat | Hamburg 
|
| purpose | International understanding and the promotion of mutual cultural and scientific exchange between Germany and Israel |
| people | Felix Husmann (Chairman), Heinz Wings (Chairman of the Board of Trustees) |
| Website | www.davidbengurionstiftung.de |
The David Ben-Gurion Foundation in Germany , is an independent foundation based in Hamburg . Just like the David Ben-Gurion Foundation in Israel, the German David Ben-Gurion Foundation is committed to the founding President of the State of Israel, who paved the way for reconciliation and the development of political and social relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Jews in Israel and worldwide applies.
history
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, Waltraut Rubien established the foundation on May 14, 2008. The patron was the former ambassador of the State of Israel to Germany, Shimon Stein .
tasks
The purpose of the foundation is to promote international attitudes and tolerance in all areas of culture as well as the idea of international understanding. This should take place in particular through cooperation with scientific institutes, museums, libraries, and educational and cultural institutions. Scientific symposia are to be organized for this purpose.
The aim of the youth meeting place in Sde Boker is to deepen the ties between the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and Israel and to promote it in the field of welfare. The foundation also wants to deepen economic cooperation between Germany and Israel, in particular between medium-sized companies in the fields of modern technologies, agriculture, handicrafts and tourism.
The foundation should also develop and promote training and exchange opportunities in Germany and Israel, especially between German universities and the Ben Gurion College and the Blaustein Institute for Economic Research. Topics from the areas of climatology and geology are to be dealt with, in particular the development of alternative energies and new irrigation methods as well as the development of agriculture in desert regions.
organization
The board consists of Felix Husmann (chairman), who also coordinates the Foundation's Berlin Circle of Friends, Stefan Hensel and Annette Winkelmann. The board of trustees includes: Heinz Wings (chairman), Rolf Eggert , Gert Prantner, Niklaus Kaiser von Rosenburg, Jürgen Illing, Jens H. Rubien and Samuel Appelbaum.
Groups of friends who sponsor special projects, such as art scholarships or school partnerships, exist in Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main.
The David Ben-Gurion Foundation is a member of the Association of German Foundations eV
activity
The extension of the Hamburg House in the Kibbutz Sde Boker, originally founded by David Ben-Gurion, was expanded to become a memorial and meeting place for young people.
Since it was founded in 2008, the foundation has supported the exchange of young people from Israel and Germany by promoting school partnerships and youth projects. In this context, a school partnership between the Lessing-Gymnasium (Berlin) and the Yitzhak Rabin School in Eilat was funded from 2010 to 2014 .
In 2015, the foundation financially supported the European Maccabi Games as a partner and supported the swimmer Patrick Kühl as a gaming partner.
From 2016 to 2019 partnerships between the Margaretha-Rothe-Gymnasium in Hamburg-Barmbek and the Neta Erez Waldorf High School Beer Sheva as well as between the Regine Hildebrandt-Gesamtschule in Birkenwerder (Brandenburg) and Yitzak Shamir High School Petach Tikwa were funded.
In 2017, an exchange between the business school at Oswaldsgarten in Gießen and the Hadassah Meurim Youth Village Netanya as well as between the Peter Weiss Comprehensive School in Unna and the Druze Friendship Highschool Yerha was funded. For this purpose, a cooperation was agreed with the François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture until 2022.
In 2019, an exchange between the Kurt-Körber-Gymnasium in Hamburg-Billstedt and the Helmut-Schmidt-Gymnasium in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg will be funded.
Since 2018 the foundation has taken on additional funding for German-Israeli school partnerships with the "Waltraut Rubien Funding", for which schools from all over Germany can apply.
Shimon Stein , Henryk M. Broder , Michael Wolffsohn , Martin Biesel and Ahmad Mansour were among the guests of individual public events of the David Ben-Gurion Foundation in Germany .
There is a special partnership between the Foundation and the François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture , which identifies them as the ultimate beneficiary in the event of dissolution.
Foundation assets and financing
At the current time (as of June 8, 2019) there does not seem to be any publicly available information about the foundation's assets or the funding of the foundation. The establishment of the foundation was made possible largely by a generous donation from Sparda-Bank Hamburg . There is also a request from the Hamburg City Council calling on the Senate to support the expansion of the Hamburg House of the Foundation with 850,000 euros.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sparda Bank Hamburg: press release. May 13, 2008, accessed May 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Hans-Juergen Fink: The Reconciler of the David Ben Gurion Foundation. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. September 26, 2013, accessed May 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Ben-Gurion Foundation: Obituaries. December 26, 2017, accessed May 30, 2019 .
- ^ A b Briefing of the Hamburg citizenship by the President of the citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. (PDF) Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
- ^ Ben-Gurion Foundation: Articles of Association in the version of the Hamburg Foundation Supervision. Retrieved May 30, 2019 .
- ^ Embassy of the State of Israel in Berlin: Students of the Lessing School from Berlin-Wedding in Eilat. In: Official Blog. November 13, 2012, accessed May 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Foundation was a partner of the European Maccabi Games 2015. (Foundation website). Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
- ^ Frank Bachner: The Jewish Olympia is coming to Berlin . In: Der Tagesspiegel . 23rd July 2015.
- ↑ Christina Iglhaut: Change of perspective included. Conclusion Communication, May 14, 2019, accessed on June 3, 2019 .
- ^ David Ben-Gurion Foundation: Call for proposals for the Waltraud-Rubien funding. 2018, accessed May 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Katharina Schmidt-Hirschfelder: From Wedding to Eilat. Jüdische Allgemeine, January 4, 2011, accessed May 29, 2019 .
- ^ Francois Maher Presley Foundation: Articles of Association. Retrieved May 30, 2019 .