Freedom Prize (Friedrich Naumann Foundation)
Hans-Dietrich Genscher, 1st prize winner 2006, Wolfgang Gerhardt (Chairman of the Board of Management), Jürgen Morlok (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)
The Freedom Prize of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom has been awarded every two years since 2006 in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main . The prize is intended to honor personalities who have given impulses for the development of a liberal civil society and thus contribute to the further development of liberal goals and values in Germany and Europe. Karen Horn is the chairman of the jury for the Freedom Prize .
Excellent
Hans-Dietrich Genscher, 2006 awardee
Mario Vargas Llosa, 2008 award winner
Necla Kelek, 2010 award winner
Wolfgang Kersting, award winner 2012
Helen Zille, 2014 awardee
Kaspar Villiger, 2016 award winner
Joachim Gauck, Prize Winner 2018
- 2006: Hans-Dietrich Genscher (laudator: Richard von Weizsäcker ) for having made a contribution to the freedom of millions of people with his political commitment as Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 2008: Mario Vargas Llosa (laudator: Frank Schirrmacher ) as the liberal voice who achieves the irrational in people, while liberalism is otherwise often caught in the rationalistic coldness of the Enlightenment. The jury's reasoning: “Mario Vargas Llosa recorded many very personal experiences and observations in literary terms. But he by no means lived his life between two book covers. He was politically active, right up to the presidential elections in Peru in 1990, in which he was defeated by Alberto Fujimori in the second ballot. How much better would it have been in Peru if Mario Vargas Llosa had won! Such personalities do not abound in any society. We are honoring Mario Vargas Llosa today so that others can orientate themselves on him. "
- 2010: Necla Kelek (laudator: Alice Schwarzer ) for advocating more openness and honesty in the integration debate with great personal commitment and not without risk, and always taking a clear position on the value of freedom.
- 2012: Wolfgang Kersting (laudator: Klaus von Dohnanyi ) for representing the values of freedom and justice with extraordinary precision as a skeptical enlightener.
- 2014: Helen Zille (laudator: Horst Köhler ) for campaigning against apartheid and for freedom throughout her life in South Africa.
- 2016: Kaspar Villiger (laudator: Ludwig Theodor Heuss ) for having made a contribution to the further development of freedom goals and values as the father of the Swiss debt brake and federalism reform.
- 2018: Joachim Gauck (laudator: Ludwig Theodor Heuss)
- 2020: Friede Springer (Laudator: Mathias Döpfner )
Web links
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Individual evidence
- ↑ ARCult Media GmbH: Kulturpreise.de: Freedom Prize of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. Retrieved December 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Genscher receives the foundation's first freedom award . In: Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom . ( freiheit.org [accessed December 23, 2017]).
- ↑ Hans-Dietrich Genscher receives the first Freedom Prize from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . In: presseportal.de . ( presseportal.de [accessed on November 23, 2017]).
- ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH: Freedom Prize: The Confessor: Frankfurt celebrates Mario Vargas Llosa. November 9, 2008, accessed November 23, 2017 .
- ^ Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (ed.): Frankfurt: Freedom Prize 2008 for Mario Vargas Llosa . Explanation of the jury by Karen Horn: ( freiheit.org [accessed December 23, 2017]).
- ↑ DerWesten: Schwarzer contradicts the Federal President . ( derwesten.de [accessed on November 23, 2017]).
- ^ Peter Mühlbauer: Necla Kelek receives Freedom Prize from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. In: Heise online , November 6, 2010.
- ↑ Wolfgang Kersting, Wolfgang Gerhardt, Jörg-Uwe Hahn, Karen Horn, Klaus von Dohnanyi: Awarding of the Freedom Prize 2012. (PDF) Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, 2012, accessed on July 19, 2017 (brochure on the awarding of the 2012 Freedom Prize in the Paulskirche on November 3rd, 2012. Available free of charge as a pdf file).
- ↑ Helen Zille, Wolfgang Gerhardt, Uwe Becker, Christian Lindner, Karen Horn, Horst Köhler: Awarding of the Freedom Prize 2014. (PDF) Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, 2014, accessed on July 19, 2017 (brochure on the awarding of the Freedom Prize 2014 on November 8, 2014 in the Paulskirche. Available free of charge as a pdf file).
- ↑ Freedom Prize 2014 goes to Helen Zille . In: Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom . ( freiheit.org [accessed December 23, 2017]).
- ↑ Freedom Prize for Kaspar Villiger | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 12, 2016, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed November 23, 2017]).
- ↑ Joachim Gauck receives Freedom Prize 2018 . In: Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom . ( freiheit.org [accessed November 18, 2018]).
- ↑ Freedom Prize 2018: Gauck warns of society drifting apart . In: presseportal.de . ( presseportal.de [accessed on November 18, 2018]).
- ^ WORLD: Friede Springer: publisher receives Freedom Prize from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . In: THE WORLD . August 24, 2020 ( welt.de [accessed August 24, 2020]).
- ^ Johann Ahlers: Freedom Prize for Friede Springer. In: press release. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, August 24, 2020, accessed on August 24, 2020 .