James Simon Foundation

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The James Simon Foundation was established in 2006 and is a foundation under civil law with legal capacity based in Berlin. The purpose of the foundation is to promote art, culture and the common good. At the time of the recognition of the foundation, the foundation's assets consist of a right to transfer 1,000,000 euros in cash.

Naming

With this name, the foundation intends to bring James Simon back into the public eye. After years of being forgotten as a result of the Nazi era and the division of Germany, the Jewish donor has only been publicly available again since 2007 thanks to James-Simon-Park and the construction work on the James-Simon-Galerie as the central entrance building on Museum Island (Berlin) City awareness present.

Foundation members

The chairman is Peter Raue . Founders within the meaning of the statutes are private individuals from Germany, u. a. Tessen von Heydebreck , also chairman of the board of trustees, Traudl Herrhausen , Hubertus Erlen and Karin von Welck . A total of around 30 donors from politics, business and culture signed.

James Simon Prize

Every two years the foundation awards the James Simon Prize for exemplary, social and cultural commitment in Germany in a ceremonial act . The prize money was 50,000 euros until 2010 and has been 25,000 euros since 2012.

In 2008 the award was presented to the married couple Werner Otto and Maren Otto in the presence of the Federal President, and in 2010 to Udo van Meeteren , who doubled the prize money and donated it to four aid organizations. In 2012 the couple Carmen and Reinhold Würth received an award. The laudators were the former Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg Erwin Teufel and the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger . The 2014 award winner is Barbara Lambrecht-Schadeberg . Wilhelm Winterstein received this award in 2016, Christian Dräger in 2019 .

literature

  • Bernd Schultz (Ed.): James Simon - Philanthropist and patron of the arts . Prestel, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7913-3759-9 .
  • Olaf Matthes: James Simon. The art of meaningful giving, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-942271-35-6 (as well as a special edition of the James Simon Foundation 2019).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Articles of Association of the James Simon Foundation , Section 5 Foundation Assets, 1
  2. ↑ The Otto entrepreneurial couple honored with the first James Simon Prize. In: Märkische Oderzeitung , July 1, 2008.
  3. ↑ Hermann Rudolph; Like the namesake. In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 2, 2008.
  4. ↑ James Simon Prize for Udo van Meeteren. In: art - Das Kunstmagazin , March 25, 2010. ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  5. ↑ Patronage award for Carmen and Reinhold Würth. In: Focus online , August 22, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Speech by Federal President Joachim Gauck on the occasion of the 4th award of the James Simon Prize In: Zivilgesellschaft Info , December 3, 2014 .
  7. ↑ James Simon Prize for Dr. Christian Dräger , in: Lübeckische Blätter 184 (2019), pp. 90f