Fritz Thyssen Foundation
| Fritz Thyssen Foundation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Foundation (Germany) |
| founding | July 7, 1959 |
| founder |
Amélie Thyssen , Anita Countess Zichy-Thyssen |
| Seat | Cologne |
| purpose | Promotion of science |
| Chair | Frank Suder |
| sales | 20,397,166 euros (2017) |
| Foundation capital | 467,011,513 euros (2017) |
| Website | fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de |
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports young scientists and research projects. It was founded in 1959 and is based in Cologne .
Funding purpose
The purpose of the foundation is to promote science at scientific universities and research institutions, primarily in Germany, with special consideration of the next generation of scientists. To this end, the foundation has concentrated its activities on the promotion of specific and temporally foreseeable research projects. It supports smaller scientific conferences, awards grants to young scientists who have completed their university education with a doctorate , finances several international scholarship and exchange programs and also supports, to a limited extent, the publication of the results of research work it supports. The foundation also cooperates with other institutions. One example is the “Humanities International” prize awarded jointly with the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and the Foreign Office . The prize money is used to translate the award-winning works in the humanities and cultural studies into English.
The foundation does not maintain its own research institutes or teaching facilities. Furthermore, it does not fund any projects that relate to areas from which the foundation's income comes.
history
The foundation was established on July 7, 1959 by Amélie Thyssen and her daughter Anita Countess Zichy-Thyssen in memory of Fritz Thyssen . With shares with a nominal value of almost DM 100 million, the foundation was the first large private individual scientific foundation in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1972 the foundation acquired part of the Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza , which became the seat of the German Study Center in Venice .
In the new federal states, the foundation financed over a hundred projects and accompanied the development of German legal unity in seven scientific working groups. With invitation grants, it gave young scientists from the GDR the opportunity to integrate into the West German scientific system before the reunification .
Seat
In 2007, the foundation acquired the former Amerika Haus in Cologne, which is now a listed building . Since the premises were insufficient for use and the building fabric was in need of renovation, the foundation had the building rebuilt and refurbished over a period of two years in coordination with the Cologne Monument Protection Agency. In addition to the existing building complex, a two-storey office bracket was added to the west and a single-storey conference room to the north. The America House North Rhine-Westphalia association has moved to nearby Apostelnstrasse.
organs
- Chairman of the Board of Trustees: Werner Wenning
- Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board: Christoph Markschies
- Board of Directors: Frank Suder
Humanities International
“With the Humanities International Award - Prize for the Promotion of the Translation of Humanities Literature , the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels , the Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort , the Foreign Office and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation promote the translation of outstanding works in the humanities and social sciences into English. The award is linked to the financing of the translation costs. "
The prize has been awarded since 2008. The aim of the translation funding is to contribute to the worldwide dissemination of research results in the humanities from Germany and at the same time to preserve German as the scientific language and the language of the first publication of humanities works.
2013 Prize Winner
- Franz Mauelshagen
- Börries Kuzmany
- Daniel Barben
- Martin Mulsow
- Marie Luise Knott
- Christoph Kreutzmüller
- Christine Hatzky
- Michael Zeuske
- Jan Plamper
- Martin Geck
- Ulrich Broeckling
- Wolfgang Streeck
- Martina Loew
literature
- Hans Günter Hockerts: A legacy for science. The Fritz Thyssen Foundation in the Bonn Republic. Schöningh, Paderborn 2018, ISBN 978-3-506-78890-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 18 works in the humanities were awarded the prize for translation funding. Exchange Association of the German Book Trade
- ↑ Manfred Schneider: 50 years of private science funding , in: 50 years of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Cologne , p. 14 f.
- ^ Fritz Thyssen Foundation: 50 Years of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Cologne , p. 7
- ↑ Humanities International - Prize for the Promotion of the Translation of Humanities Works, Fritz Thyssen Foundation ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Award-winning works since 2008, boersenverein.de
- ↑ Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, July 11, 2008
- ↑ Fritz Thyssen Foundation: Annual Report 2013 , pdf p. 36 ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
