Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation

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Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation
(Doornkaat Foundation)
legal form non-profit foundation under private law
founding November 19, 1988 (recognition: December 13, 1988)
founder Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolmans
Seat North (East Frisia)
Chair Claas Brons (Emden)
Website www.doornkaat-stiftung.de

The Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation (also referred to as the Doornkaat Foundation for short , also in the following article) is a non-profit foundation under private law based in the north ( East Friesland ). It was founded in 1988 by Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman , then Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Doornkaat AG . Initially it was planned as a corporate foundation with the purpose of continuing the company after the death of the founder. The difficult situation of Doornkaat AG on the spirits market around 1990 finally led the foundation to sell the company to its Emsland competitor Berentzen . The proceeds from the sale to Berentzen formed the basis of the foundation, which from then on was dedicated to promoting charitable purposes, primarily science and research, art and culture, environmental, landscape and monument protection, the idea of ​​home and rescuing from danger to life with local Focus on East Frisia.

structure

The Doornkaat Foundation is represented in and out of court by a board of directors. The chairman of the board is currently (as of February 2013) the Emden businessman Claas Brons. The board of directors is supported by a board of trustees headed by Fokko Büttner ( Leer ). Until his death on March 22, 2019, Walter Schulz, former head of the Johannes a Lasco library in Emden , was the managing director, called in the Doornkaat Foundation Syndikus . The foundation bodies usually meet twice a year to discuss funding applications and to approve or reject them. According to the wishes of the founder, the foundation bodies consist exclusively of people with experience in business.

Financial development

The foundation's assets amounted to almost 17.2 million DM at the end of 1991, the equivalent of around 8.8 million euros. In 1993 and 1996 Berentzen AG added endowments totaling the equivalent of a little more than 380,000 euros. Despite difficulties on the capital market in the 2000s, the foundation's assets grew to just under 20 million euros by September 15, 2012. At the same time, in the 20 years of its existence (up to and including December 31, 2011) a little more than seven million euros were distributed for the foundation's purposes, which corresponds to an annual average of around 350,000 euros. This was made possible not least by a conservative investment policy and the foundation's low administrative burden.

Projects supported

Restored with the help of a foundation:
organ in Backemoor
East Frisian State Museum
in the Emden town hall
Lifeboat
Gerhard ten Doornkaat

According to its statutes, the Doornkaat Foundation usually only provides one-off grants, i.e. it does not subsidize ongoing operating costs. As a rule, personal scientific funding such as doctoral or other scholarships is only funded if “the subject of the respective scientific endeavors corresponds to the foundation's purposes and is of particular importance”. Following the express wish of the founder that “promoting the idea of ​​home” is one of the foundation's purposes, the clear focus of the funding lies in the East Friesland area: In the first 20 years of its existence, of a good seven million euros, 5.977 million remained in the region.

The protection of monuments has taken a large part from the beginning of the foundation's activities. Between 1992 and 2003, more than 43 percent of the funding went to this area, of which 44.65 percent went to the old district of the north and a further 37.94 percent to the rest of East Frisia. The foundation paid particular attention to the preservation and restoration of the organs in the organ landscape of East Friesland , which is considered to be outstanding in the professional world. The region's more than 60 historic windmills and more than 100 historic churches were also given consideration. The Doornkaat Foundation spent 934,000 euros on the organs, and another 390,000 euros went into the restoration of the interiors of several churches. For the church area alone (excluding the Johannes a Lasco Library ), 22.2 percent of the funds were spent, including the library even 26.7 percent.

In the field of cultural goods in public institutions, the Kunsthalle in Emden benefited in particular from the purchase of a sculpture by the British artist David Nash , which the foundation made available to the Kunsthalle as a permanent loan. The Society for Fine Art and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden , which co-operates the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum in Emden , received works on permanent loan, including paintings by the Emden painter and architect Martin Faber and Felix Nussbaum . The foundation supported the acquisition of exhibits for the East Frisian Tea Museum and its renovation. Secular buildings such as several of the historical castles and stone houses received grants for restoration work amounting to 557,000 euros. By far the largest single project of the Doornkaat Foundation was the acquisition of a picture by the marine painter Ludolf Backhuysen , who came from Emden and who became famous in Amsterdam : The work Die Yacht von Emden and other ships in the roadstead of Emden from 1698, acquired by one Art dealer in Amsterdam, cost 575,000 euros.

Since then, several scientific works on regional studies of East Frisia and the recording of the field names of East Frisia have also been financially supported. The Johannes a Lasco Library , the Library of the East Frisian Landscape and the Aurich State Archives expanded their holdings with the help of the Foundation.

In the area of ​​environmental protection, funding was allocated to a natural history trail on Norderney and the National Park House on Borkum , to the preservation of the historic parks in Lütetsburg and Leer-Loga, and to several environmental education projects. The founder, who was close to the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People throughout his life , also included rescuing from mortal danger as a foundation purpose. While the geographic focus of the foundation is now clearly on East Frisia, in the past projects in the new federal states were also supported with a little more than one million euros (until 2011). In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on it accounted for the lion's share.

literature

  • Eckart Krömer: The history of the Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolmann Foundation , in Heinrich Schmidt et al. (Ed.): Tota Frisia in partial views. Hajo van Lengen on his 65th birthday (treatises and lectures on the history of East Frisia, Volume 82), Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 2005, pp. 481–496.
  • Walter Schulz: The Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation. A report on 20 years of funding activity. In: Emder yearbook for historical regional studies of East Frisia , Volume 92 (2012), pp. 361–381.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Schulz: The Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation. A report on 20 years of funding activity. In: Emder Yearbook for Historical Regional Studies Ostfriesland , Volume 92 (2012), pp. 361–381, here p. 361. In the following Schulz: The Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation.
  2. ↑ Eckart Krömer : The history of the Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolmann Foundation , in Heinrich Schmidt et al. (Ed.): Tota Frisia in partial views. Hajo van Lengen on his 65th birthday (treatises and lectures on the history of East Frisia, Volume 82), Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 2005, pp. 481–496. In the following Krömer: History of the Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolmann Foundation.
  3. ↑ www.doornkaat-stiftung.de: The Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation , accessed on February 22, 2013.
  4. ^ Schulz: The Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation. Pp. 362, 364.
  5. ^ Schulz: The Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation. P. 370.
  6. ↑ www.doornkaat-stiftung.de: The Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation , accessed on February 22, 2013.
  7. ^ Schulz: The Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation. P. 368.
  8. ^ Krömer: History of the Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolmann Foundation.
  9. ^ Schulz: The Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation. Pp. 368, 373.
  10. ^ Schulz: The Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation. P. 373 f.
  11. ^ Schulz: The Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation. P. 376.
  12. ↑ www.flurnamen-ostfriesland.de: Foreword by Hajo van Lengen for publication in 2002 , PDF file, 13 pages, p. 1, accessed on February 22, 2013.
  13. ^ Schulz: The Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation. P. 364 f.