Franz Josef Strauss Prize
The Franz Josef Strauss Prize is an award for outstanding achievements in politics, business, art and culture. It has been awarded by the Hanns Seidel Foundation since 1996 in memory of the political life work of Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss .
In particular, the prize is awarded to personalities who "stand up in an outstanding manner for peace, freedom and justice, for democracy and international understanding, or who have made special merits in the fields of business, science and technology as well as literature and art."
The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.
Previous winners
- 1996: Henry A. Kissinger , former US Secretary of State, winner of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize
- 1998: José María Aznar , Spanish Prime Minister
- 1999: George HW Bush , former US President
- 2001: Viktor Orbán , Hungarian Prime Minister
- 2003: Roman Herzog , former German President
- 2005: Helmut Kohl , former German Chancellor
- 2008: Jean-Claude Juncker , Luxembourg Prime Minister
- 2011: Mikhail Gorbachev , former President of the Soviet Union
- 2012: The announcement ceremony at the Israeli President Shimon Peres suggested this from
- 2015: Reiner Kunze , writer and GDR dissident
- 2018: Klaus Iohannis , Romanian President
Web links
- Franz Josef Strauss Prize , official website