Carl Goerdeler Prize
The Carl Goerdeler Prize is awarded for innovative work and achievements in the field of local science and local politics .
Foundation, endowment
At the end of the 1990s , Leipzig's Lord Mayor Hinrich Lehmann-Grube suggested the creation of Carl Goerdeler Prizes in recognition of the former OB colleague and resistance fighter against National Socialism . The Municipal Science Prize has been awarded since 1999 and is awarded to sociologists, economists, philosophers and lawyers.
The Carl Goerdeler Prize is given to young academics for outstanding dissertations or Ph.D. -Work in the field of communal science awarded. This is intended to strengthen democracy at the local and regional level in German society.
Since 2016, the practice-oriented prize for local politics and international understanding has also been awarded every two years . It honors outstanding achievements in municipal administrative practice in Europe. The award is intended to promote peaceful cooperation between regional and local authorities in Europe that unites people and promotes mutual learning for the benefit of the residents.
Individuals, institutions and projects can apply for the calls for tenders that take place each summer.
The Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation awards the prizes annually in cooperation with the city of Leipzig and well-known public institutions and universities, including B .:
- 2017 : the Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation; the Institute for the Public Sector eV funded by KPMG Germany ; the city of Leipzig; the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ); Hertie School of Governance ; Council of the Municipalities and Regions of Europe (German Section).
- 2018 : the Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation with the support of the Institute for the Public Sector and the City of Leipzig funded by KPMG Germany.
The prize is awarded in Leipzig on February 2nd, the anniversary of Carl Goerdeler's death (2018 by the Lord Mayor of Leipzig, Mr. Burkhard Jung , and the spokesman for the Foundation's Board of Trustees, Rainer Goerdeler ).
Both prizes are endowed with 2000 euros in 2018 .
The winners are selected by a supraregional jury with the participation of a member of the foundation and the city of Leipzig.
Price item
The sculptor Stephan Voigtländer and Sabine Epple, curator at the Grassi Museum for Applied Art , designed the award as an upright open book (see illustration on),
“Which symbolizes the appreciation of the scientific work on topics of local politics, connected with stairs that not only stand for the search for knowledge, but also form the arch to the Goerdeler monument at the New Town Hall . Text passages from his letter to General Friedrich Olbricht of May 17, 1944 are engraved on the outside of the book in Goerdeler's handwriting . "
Prize Winner (Local Science)
- 2000: Gerhard Schwabe and Volker Kunz
- 2001: Elisabeth Vorbuchner and Lars Holtkamp
- 2002: Dietmar Bräunig and Jörg Bogumil
- 2003: Georg Raffetseder and Ralf Daum
- 2004: Jens Philipp Karr and Karsten Schneider
- 2005: Klaus Lederer and Carl-Peter Kleidat
- 2006: Nils Behrndt and Carsten Maas
- 2007: Marion Reiser and Frank Lohse
- 2008: Thomas Ammermann
- 2009: Christine Hahn and Doris Holtmann
- 2010: Petra Pfisterer
- 2011: NALAS - Network of Local Authorities of South East Europe, Skopje
- 2012: Renate Reiter and Torsten Schmidt
- 2013: Alexander Kroll
- 2014: André Göbel
- 2015: Michael Broens
- 2016: Andrea Walter
- 2017: Dominik Vogel
- 2018: David Kaufmann
- 2019: Markus Kowalski
Prize winners (local politics and international understanding)
- 2016: Project "German-Greek communal knowledge transfer" of the municipal council of Baden-Württemberg (President: Roger Kehle ) and the Central Association of Cities and Municipalities Greece KEDE (KEDE representative and mayor of the city of Drama: Christodoulos Mamsakos)
- 2018: Neighboring border towns Frankfurt (Oder) ( Germany , Lord Mayor: Martin Wilke ) and Słubice ( Poland , Mayor Tomasz Ciszewicz ) for their cross-border partnership and close, constructive cooperation that has existed since 1975.
- 2019: The City of Duisburg is awarded the Municipal Policy Prize for its cross-border cooperation with the Dutch city of Nijmegen , which has a lasting positive impact on the lives of local people.
Web links
- idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from October 20, 2007 , accessed March 5, 2018
- Journal of the Bavarian Municipal Association 02/2009, p. 17 , accessed March 5, 2018
- Website of the "German-Greek Assembly" (DGV) , accessed March 5, 2018
- Norbert Barthle (Member of the Bundestag) on November 15, 2017 in front of the Greek community of Backnang , accessed March 5, 2018
- Focus online from January 29, 2018 , accessed March 5, 2018
- Contribution on Sachsen-Fernsehen on February 2, 2018 at 5:42 pm , accessed March 5, 2018
- Article in mephisto 97.6 (local radio of the University of Leipzig) on February 2, 2018 at 7:50 p.m. , accessed March 5, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Website of the Institute for the Public Sector , accessed February 12, 2018
- ↑ a b c | Goerdeler Foundation website accessed January 30, 2018
- ↑ Call 2017 , accessed March 5, 2018
- ↑ a b c d Press release of the Foundation of February 2, 2018
- ↑ | OB gallery of Leipzig with reference to the Goerdeler Prize 2018
- ↑ a b MOZ: Doppelstadt is awarded in Märkische Oderzeitung from January 30, 2018, p. 13 or in MOZ article online
- ↑ a b Website of the City of Leipzig ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 12, 2018
- ^ Goerdeler Prize awarded in Leipzig , Lausitzer Rundschau , February 19, 2004
- ↑ Carl Goerdeler Prize for Communal Science awarded , leipzig-seiten.de , February 1, 2008
- ↑ Local authority network NALAS receives German award ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2018 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. , Press release from the German Embassy in Skopje
- ↑ Dr. Alexander Kroll , Potsdam Center for Politics and Management
- ↑ Andreas Schneider: André Göbel convinces the city of Leipzig with a doctoral thesis on economic development , Science Information Service , February 11, 2014
- ↑ Award: Awarding of the Municipal Science Prize to the Unterbalbacher Dr. Michael Broens: Helpful framework for municipalities , Fränkische Nachrichten , March 10, 2015
- ↑ Karin Völker: Influence on the city administration: How citizens participate in decisions , Westfälische Nachrichten , January 29, 2016
- ↑ Dominik Vogel awarded the Carl Goerdeler Prize , uni-hamburg.de , February 15, 2017
- ^ A b Goerdeler prizes for communal cooperation and dissertation. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
- ^ The German-Greek Assembly receives the local political award from the Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation , German-Greek Assembly , February 2016
- ↑ Frankfurt and Słubice are awarded local political awards , Focus , January 29, 2018