Fritz Behrens Foundation

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Fritz Behrens Foundation
Legal form: legal foundation under civil law
Purpose: Promotion of the arts, monument protection, science and charity
Chair: Matthias Fontaine (CEO)
Consist: since 1923
Founder: Friedrich Eduard Behrens
Seat: Hanover
Hindenburgvilla , Bristol Strasse 6 , seat of the foundation

The Fritz Behrens Foundation is a German non-profit foundation for the promotion of art , monument protection , science and charity . It was built after the death of the lignite industrialist Friedrich Eduard Behrens (1836–1920) with funds from his estate and is based in Hanover .

history

The foundation primarily financed larger projects. Since the 1920s and 1930s, for example, more than a dozen sculptures have been set up in Hanover as art in public spaces , for example at the Maschsee , in the Eilenriede , in the city ​​park or in the zoo . Other purchased works of art were loaned to various museums, particularly in Hanover, on permanent loan .

After the Second World War , had as the Fritz Behrens Foundation based in the Gneisenaustraße 45 in Hanover, the Foundation raised capital through endowment contributions , donations from individuals and testamentary disposal grants . The long-standing curator of the foundation was the Hanoverian Lord Mayor Arthur Quantity († 1965).

Projects funded so far

(incomplete)

Major projects

(Donations to the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People )

Art in public space

Putto on the fish at the Maschsee
The rose boy in the city ​​park

At the Maschsee:

In Hannover City Park :

At or in the Eilenriede :

  • The tennis player figure created by Karl Constantin Starck was set up as a gift from the Fritz Behrens Foundation in 1935 on the premises of the " German Tennis Club " on its premises at (today's) Theodor-Heuss-Platz .
  • On June 27, 1961, the Pelikan fountain created by Vierthaler at the end of Fritz-Beindorff-Allee was donated to the city of Hanover.
  • In 1964 Ludwig Vierthaler created the Arthur-Menge-Brunnen on Vierthalerweg between the Eilenriede and the Maschsee, on the bastion at the Döhrener Turm , on behalf of the foundation .

In the streets of Hanover:

  • The arch tensioner by the Berlin sculptor Bernhard Lepke was set up in Prinzenstrasse , where it can no longer be found today.
  • The Leibniz memorial at the Hanoverian Opera Triangle (Stefan Schwerdtfeger, 2008, bronze on a granite base). Relevant participation.

Permanent loans to museums

Works by Bernardo Bellotto , Francesco Guardi , Emil Nolde and Max Ernst can be found on permanent loan from the Foundation in various Hanoverian museums .

In the Kestner Museum :

  • Depiction of the "Egyptian Sun King Amun"

In the permanent exhibition of the Leibniz University Hannover

  • the encryption / decryption machine (Machina deciphratoria) built for the first time in 2014 according to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's plans

Sponsorship of the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition

Young, particularly talented participants in the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media will receive a "violin that was made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini in Parma around 1765" on loan.

Science award

To promote science , the foundation has been awarding the Fritz Behrens Foundation's science prize, endowed with 30,000 euros, to individuals since 2010 . In cooperation with the Volkswagen Foundation, the " focus specifically on the science location Hanover" is to be directed towards the central future topics of education , science and research and will probably be awarded every 2 years.

Award winners

building

The administration resides at Hannoversche Bristol Straße 6 , the former Hindenburg villa , which is a listed building in the Zoo district , formerly the temporary residence of Field Marshal General and Reich President Paul von Hindenburg .

The building can be made available "for concerts, readings, panel discussions and other top-class events."

Funding applications

With the help of donations, endowments or testamentary contributions, the foundation can also fulfill individual funding requests over the long term, which the individual donor can freely determine and also associate with his name. The contact person is the lawyer and notary Matthias Fontaine .

literature

  • Theda Minthe: Fritz Behrens Foundation. In: donate. promote. shape. Guide to foundations in Hanover , ed. by the City of Hanover, Mayor's Office - Fundamental Matters, in cooperation with the Hanover Foundation Initiative, updated new edition, Hanover: City of Hanover, November 2007, p. 56
  • Helmut Zimmermann : The Fritz Behrens Foundation. In: Kurt Kreuser: Foundations from the past and the present , Volume 5, ed. from the Federal Association of German Foundations and the Association of German Charitable Foundations, Bonn: Federal Association of German Foundations, 1993
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Fritz Behrens Foundation. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 196.
  • Ralph Ludwig (conc., Text, interview), Matthias Fontaine, Thomas Himstedt, Jan Philipp Poppelbaum (red.): 90 years of the Fritz Behrens Foundation , 1st edition, Hanover: Fritz Behrens Foundation, 2013

Web links

Commons : Fritz-Behrens-Stiftung  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e Juliane Kaune: Fritz-Behrens-Stiftung / Two important researcher prizes from Hanover , also online in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) on October 13, 2010, last accessed on March 1, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Fritz Behrens Foundation (see literature)
  3. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Behrens, (2) Friedrich Eduard. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 55
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Theda Minthe: Fritz-Behrens-Stiftung (see literature)
  5. ↑ Reinhard Renger (Ed.): The organization of the insurance industry in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany and in the German Democratic Republic from 1945 to 1989 , p. 245; online through google books
  6. ↑ a b Klaus Mlynek: MENGE, Arthur. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 250f; online through google books
  7. ↑ Veit Pagel (1st chairman): Information on IMAS / world class in Lower Saxony on the imas-meisterkurse.de page , last accessed on February 23, 2013
  8. ↑ Gerd von der Osten: Hermann Scheuertstuhl, Fisch mit Putte .... In: Bildwerke from three centuries in Hanover , with photos by Hildegard Müller, Munich: Verlag F. Bruckmann, 1957, p. 122f.
  9. ^ Karljosef Kreter : The Maschsee. Buildings and sculptures from the time of National Socialism , leaflet of the project culture of remembrance in cooperation with the City of Hanover, the Lord Mayor, Department of Education and Qualification, as well as the District Council of Südstadt-Bult, City of Hanover, February 2012; downloadable as a PDF document
  10. ↑ Compare this photo documentation
  11. ^ Ludwig Zerull: Karl Constantin Starck. In: Art without a roof. Sculptures and objects in the cityscape of Hanover , Hanover: Edition Libri Artis, Schäfer, 1992, ISBN 3-88746-278-5 , p. 56
  12. ↑ a b c Fritz Behrens Foundation in Hanover Chronicle , passim , partly online via Google books
  13. ↑ Compare this picture documentation about Prinzenstrasse
  14. ↑ a b Lower Saxony Foundation: Fritz Behnsen Foundation (see literature)
  15. ↑ Karl-Ludwig Baader (Interviewer): Integration / Foroutan: “Integration is difficult to measure” on HAZ's haz.de website from October 10, 2012, last accessed on February 23, 2013
  16. ↑ Science Prize 2012 of the Fritz Behrens Foundation goes to Stefan Hell at the Science Information Service (idw-online); Retrieved October 17, 2012
  17. ↑ Göttingen psychologist receives science award from the Fritz Behrens Foundation. Press release from June 17, 2014 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de)
  18. ↑ Science prizes for Karsten Danzmann and Kai Sina: Fritz Behrens Foundation honors researchers with 30,000 euros each: Volkswagen Foundation. (No longer available online.) In: volkswagenstiftung.de. September 14, 2015, archived from the original on December 1, 2016 ; accessed November 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volkswagenstiftung.de
  19. ↑ Wolfgang Neß: Villa district at the zoological garden. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, [Bd.] 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 152ff., here: p. 154; as well as plant zoo. In: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), as of July 1, 1985 , City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 10f.
  20. ↑ Note: The " Heritable building right on the listed house in Hanover-Wülfel that the Foundation uses for its purposes" stated on the Lower Saxony Foundation: Fritz Behnsen Foundation is probably a transmission error with regard to the seat of the Foundation; compare the photo documentation at Commons (see section web links )
  21. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Hindenburg, Paul von Beneckendorff and. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 169.
  22. ↑ Matthias Fontaine ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the fontaine-goetze.de page , last accessed on October 14, 2018  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fontaine-goetze.de

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