Committee of the Staufer Friends

Staufer stele in Fiorentino in Apulia

Individual parts of a Staufer stele in Markus Wolf's sculptor workshop

EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger (right) and sculptor Markus Wolf (front left) unveil a Staufer stele in Markgröningen on April 21, 2012

The Staufer Friends Committee was founded on June 1st, 2002 and set itself the task of erecting Staufer steles “at Europe's most outstanding Staufer sites” in memory of the Staufer people. The Hohenstaufen were Roman-German kings and emperors in the High Middle Ages .

The monuments are works by the Stuttgart sculptor Markus Wolf . Donors took over the financing of the steles . The committee ceased its activities at the end of 2018. By this time, thirty-eight Staufer steles had been built in six European countries.

Members of the committee

The committee was an association of volunteers and has no legal status. The members of the committee were:

Alexandra Holler-SAGES, student councilor in Nürtingen
Georg Friedrich Kempter , monument conservator i. R. in Stuttgart
Ulf Merbold , spaceman in Stuttgart
Andreas Raab , retired Lord Mayor D. in Dinkelsbühl
Gerhard Raff , writer in Stuttgart- Degerloch
Karl-Heinz Rueß , city archivist in Göppingen and managing director of the Society for Staufer History
Johann Heinrich von Stein , emeritus of the University of Hohenheim
Walter Ziegler , district archivist i. R. in Faurndau

The committee acted in memory of the Tübingen university professors

Hansmartin Decker-Hauff (1917–1992)
Heinz Löwe (1913–1991)
Sönke Lorenz (1944–2012)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Committee of the Staufer Friends: Staufer Friends donate Staufer Steles , Gerlingen 2014, p. 12 (PDF; 122 kB) and P. 92 (PDF; 116 kB). Retrieved October 20, 2014.
↑ Peter Koblank: How a Staufer Stele is made. From the quarry to the inauguration in Justingen on October 7th, 2012. Accessed on October 7th, 2012.
↑ Staufer stele project in future without a committee. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
^ Website of the Staufer Steles . Retrieved October 27, 2019.
↑ Failed tragically. Interview with Ulf Merbold. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
↑ The door opener. Interview with Andreas Raab. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
↑ The historian. Interview with Walter Ziegler. Retrieved April 18, 2013.

[sss-1] Committee of the Staufer Friends: Staufer Friends donate Staufer Steles , Gerlingen 2014, p. 12 (PDF; 122 kB) and P. 92 (PDF; 116 kB). Retrieved October 20, 2014.

[2] Peter Koblank: How a Staufer Stele is made. From the quarry to the inauguration in Justingen on October 7th, 2012. Accessed on October 7th, 2012.

[sok-3] Staufer stele project in future without a committee. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .

[ssn-4] Website of the Staufer Steles . Retrieved October 27, 2019.

[5] Failed tragically. Interview with Ulf Merbold. Retrieved April 18, 2013.

[6] The door opener. Interview with Andreas Raab. Retrieved April 10, 2013.

[7] The historian. Interview with Walter Ziegler. Retrieved April 18, 2013.