Golden Goethe Medal
The Golden Goethe Medal is an honor that has been given irregularly since 1910 by the Goethe Society , which was founded in Weimar in 1885 , and which is bestowed on people with special merits in researching and communicating the life, work and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . The award is made in public form by the President of the Goethe Society at the decision of the Executive Board. The Golden Goethe Medal is the highest award of the Goethe Society. It was created over decades by the medalist Helmut König , who died in 2017 .
Other Goethe honors
The Golden Goethe Medal should not be confused with the Goethe Medal for Art and Science ; the Goethe Medal of the Goethe Institute ; the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt ; the Goethe plaque of the city of Frankfurt am Main or the Goethe plaque of the state of Hesse .
Medal holder
- 1910: Julius Wahle
- 1910: Max Morris
- 1920: Max Hecker
- 1920: Hans Gerhard Gräf
- 1924: Max Friedländer
- 1928: Rudolf Payer-Thurn (Payer von Thurn)
- 1929: Konrad Burdach
- 1934: Anton Kippenberg
- 1935: Hans Wahl
- 1938: Julius Petersen
- 1942: Eduard Scheidemantel
- 1942: Eduard Spranger
- 1948: Otto von Günther
- 1970: William G. Moulton
- 1970: Andreas Bruno Wachsmuth
- 1975: Erich Trunz
- 1975: Helmut Holtzhauer
- 1976: Wilhelm Girnus
- 1976: Hans Tümmler
- 1979: Karl-Heinz Hahn
- 1982: Leiva Petersen
- 1984: Fritz Martini
- 1985: Ilse Graham
- 1985: Pierre Grappin
- 1989: Hans-Günther Thalheim
- 1989: Walter Müller-Seidel
- 1991: Dorothea Kuhn
- 1991: Dorothea Höscher-Lohmeyer
- 1991: Wolf von Engelhardt
- 1993: Wilhelm Emrich
- 1993: Arthur Henkel
- 1993: Lev Zinovievich Kopelew
- 1993: Victor Lange
- 1995: Siegbert Salomon Prawer
- 1995: Stuart Atkins
- 1995: Effi Biedrzynski
- 1995: Jutta Hecker
- 1997: Renate Grumach
- 1997: Gonthier-Louis Fink
- 1997: Hans Siegbert Reiss
- 1999: Karl Robert Mandelkow
- 1999: Peter Michelsen
- 1999: Katharina Mommsen
- 1999: Terence James Reed
- 1999: Siegfried Unseld
- 2001: Karl Richter
- 2001: Gerhard Kaiser
- 2001: Luciano Zagari
- 2001: Peter Stein
- 2001: Daniel Barenboim
- 2003: Naoji Kimura
- 2005: Hans-Jürgen Schings
- 2007: Manfred Eigen
- 2009: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- 2009: Norbert Miller
- 2010: Werner Keller
- 2011: Young-Ae Chon
- 2013: Yang Wuneng
- 2013: Jochen Schmidt
- 2015: Walter Hinderer
- 2017: Nicholas Boyle
- 2018: Dieter Borchmeyer