Enno and Christa Springmann Foundation

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The Enno and Christa Springmann Foundation is a foundation in Germany. It was founded in 1995 by Enno (1926–2017) and Christa Springmann (1929–2017) and is based in Wuppertal .

Description and goal

The foundation's assets were around 760,000 euros in 2009 and the funding volume was 15,000 euros; In 2017, the foundation's assets were around 900,000 euros and the funding volume was 20,000 euros.

The aim of the foundation is to promote art and culture. This is to be achieved by awarding culture prizes for Wuppertal artists. The field of artists extends across all areas of culture. Furthermore, the culture is to be promoted through the purchase of pictures and works of art for the art and museum association Wuppertal , which sees itself as the sponsoring association of the Von der Heydt Museum .

Death of the donor couple

Enno and Christa Springmann were found dead in their house in Wuppertal - Ronsdorf on March 20, 2017 . The police assume a homicide. A grandson of the couple and one of their friends were arrested as suspects in June 2017; the grandson was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Wuppertal district court in November 2018 .

Award winners

Special prices

Individual evidence

  1. Enno Springmann turns 90. In: wz.de. Westdeutsche Zeitung, accessed on February 21, 2016 .
  2. Enno and Christa Springmann Foundation at stifterverband.info, accessed in November 2009.
  3. Praise on a false pretext. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (online), November 1, 2009.
  4. ^ Enno and Christa Springmann-Stiftung Kulturdatenbank Stiftung kulturserver.de gGmbH, accessed in November 2009.
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  6. ^ Enno and Christa Springmann Foundation . In: German Foundation Center . March 30, 2016 ( deutsches-stiftungszentrum.de ).
  7. ^ Corpses found in Ronsdorf: Crime suspected: Wuppertaler art patrons dead. In: wuppertaler-rundschau.de. Wuppertaler Rundschau, accessed on March 20, 2017 .
  8. Grandson imprisoned after the double murder of an entrepreneurial couple. In: rp-online.de, accessed on June 27, 2017.
  9. Springmann's grandson sentenced to life imprisonment. In: sz.de, accessed on November 14, 2018.
  10. Great honor: Lennart and the Springmann Prize. In: wuppertaler-rundschau.de. Wuppertaler Rundschau, accessed on June 3, 2018 .
  11. ^ Enno and Christa Springmann Foundation. March 30, 2016, accessed May 9, 2020 .
  12. ^ Enno and Christa Springmann Foundation. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .