Eugen Bolz Prize

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The Eugen Bolz Prize is a prize awarded by the Eugen Bolz Foundation based in Rottenburg am Neckar in memory of Eugen Bolz and has been endowed with around 5000 euros since 2014. The award is made according to the statutes to persons who make the life, work and thinking of the center politician who was executed in the time of National Socialism and former president of the People's State of Württemberg visible and tangible, and to "personalities who stand out in a particularly outstanding way from Christian Responsibility in science, politics and journalism for the rule of law and the constitution.

Eugen Bolz Foundation

The Eugen Bolz Foundation was established in 2007 as a foundation under civil law with legal capacity and emerged from the Eugen Bolz Association. The purpose of the foundation is the "general promotion of the democratic state and international understanding." The foundation's members include the city of Rottenburg am Neckar and the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart .

Foundation Board

  • Volker Derbogen, retired First Mayor D., City of Rottenburg am Neckar
  • Monsignor Uwe Scharfenecker, Cathedral Chapter, Diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart (DRS)
  • Gerhard Brand, Friends of the Eugen Bolz Foundation

Board of Trustees

  • Stephan Neher, Lord Mayor of Rottenburg am Neckar
  • Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Kreidler , Cathedral Dean, Diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart
  • Brigitte Schorpp-Heger, representative of the Bolz family
  • City dean Monsignore Christian Hermes , Friends of the Eugen Bolz Foundation

Friends of the Eugen Bolz Foundation

In addition to the foundation, there is also a support association, the association of which consists of chairman Klaus Tappeser and his deputy Clemens Stroppel. Brigitte Schorpp-Heger is another board member.

Award winners

Previous winners are:

1997 Steffen Heitmann Protestant theologian, church lawyer, Minister of Justice in Saxony and former CDU politician
1999 Bärbel Bohley Civil rights activist and co-founder of the New Forum in the GDR
1999 Arnold Vaatz Civil rights activist, Saxon Minister of State in the State Chancellery and for Environment and Regional Development, CDU politician.
2001 Paul Kirchhof Constitutional and tax lawyers and judges of the Constitutional Court .
2004 Joachim Fest Contemporary historian , editor of the FAZ and author a . a. of the book The Downfall. Hitler and the end of the Third Reich
2006 Wanda Półtawska Polish psychiatrist and concentration camp survivor
2008 Erwin the devil Prime Minister of the State of Baden-Württemberg and CDU politician
2010 Charlotte Knobloch President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria , Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the European Jewish Congress (EJC) and President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (ZdJ).
2014 Robert Antretter SPD politician and chairman of the sexual abuse commission in the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese.
2017 Angela Merkel Federal Chancellor and CDU politician

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eugen Bolz Prize for Angela Merkel. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, January 2, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2017 .