Joseph von Görres Prize

The Joseph von Görres Prize , donated by the FVS Foundation (since 1994 Alfred Toepfer FVS Foundation ) in 1935, was intended for the German-speaking area on the Middle and Lower Rhine (including Lorraine, Luxembourg and East Belgium). The award was made by the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Board of Trustees

• Ernst Bertram
• Kurt Koelsch
• Hans Naumann (V)
• Karl Justus Obenauer
• Friedrich Pietrusky
• Louis Pinck
• Hermann Pongs
• Martin Spahn
• Alfred Rod
• Heinz Steguweit
• Franz Steinbach
• Nikolaus Welter

Award winners

• 1936 Louis Pinck , pastor, folk song researcher
• 1937 Nikolaus Welter , writer, school clerk
• 1938 Heinrich Bischoff , Germanist and literary critic
• 1939 Ernst Bertram , Germanist, writer
• 1940 Nikolaus Warker , high school teacher
• 1941 Paul Clemen , art historian
• 1942 Adolf von Hatzfeld , writer

literature

• Jan Zimmermann: The FVS Foundation's Culture Awards 1935–1945. Presentation and documentation. Published by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS Christians, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-7672-1374-5 .