Konrad Adenauer Prize (City of Cologne)
The City of Cologne's Konrad Adenauer Prize was donated in 2002 by the City of Cologne in memory of its former Lord Mayor Konrad Adenauer . The undoped award has been presented every two years since 2004.
According to the statutes, the prize is intended to recognize “outstanding contributions and special merits on the subject of living and working in a big city: innovative and courageous contributions to the development of a liveable city worldwide, to European integration or to preserving and strengthening local self-government in a Europe that is growing together” .
The awarding of the Konrad Adenauer Prize will take place (as of 2008) in a festive setting in the historic town hall of Cologne .
From September 12th to 19th, 2008, an accompanying program organized by the City of Cologne, the Adenauer Week, took place for the first time to award the prize. A touring exhibition by the Federal Chancellor Adenauer House Foundation, supplemented by exhibits from the Historical Archives of the City of Cologne, illuminating the life and work of Adenauer was on view in the historic town hall. A city tour was also offered on the subject of “On the trail of Adenauer through Cologne”. There were also lectures and film screenings as well as an accompanying program for school classes.
According to the statutes, a board of trustees made up of the mayor of the city of Cologne and parliamentary group members of the council of the city of Cologne, sponsor representatives and a board representative of the Federal Chancellor Adenauer House decide on the award of the prize .
Award winners
- 2004 Raymond Barre , French politician, for his life's work, also as Mayor of Lyon
- 2006 Traian Băsescu , Romanian politician, for his services as President of Romania and as the former first directly elected Lord Mayor of Bucharest
- 2008 Leoluca Orlando , Italian politician, former Lord Mayor of Palermo (and again Lord Mayor of the Sicilian city since May 21, 2012), among other things for his fight against organized crime
- 2010 Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga , former President of Latvia , for her services to building democracy in Latvia and her commitment as a determined European
- 2012 Petra Roth , former Lord Mayor of the City of Frankfurt am Main
- 2015 Vitali Klitschko , former boxing champion and current mayor of Kiev, for his "commitment to peace and democracy in Ukraine"
- 2017 City of Liverpool (twin city of Cologne) as a tribute to the Liverpool people's vote for European integration, as the majority of citizens in the English port city voted for Britain to remain in the EU in the referendum
- 2019 Daniel Barenboim , Argentine-Israeli pianist and conductor, for his unparalleled commitment to peace and international understanding ( West-Eastern Divan Orchestra )
Current advisory board
An advisory board (made up of well-known representatives from architecture, culture, politics, business, media, industry and universities) advises the board of trustees. Members of the advisory board of the Konrad Adenauer Prize of the City of Cologne are (as of 2015)
- Stephan Articus ( General Manager of the German Association of Cities )
- Gerald Böse (Chairman of the Management Board Koelnmesse GmbH )
- Jost Dülffer (Department of History, University of Cologne )
- Jutta Ebeling (Former Mayor of the City of Frankfurt am Main )
- Gudrun Gersmann (Director of the German Historical Institute Paris )
- Kaspar Kraemer (architect, Association of German Architects )
- Peter Kulka (architect, Association of German Architects)
- Walter von Lom (architect, Association of German Architects)
- Bernhard Mattes (CEO of Ford Werke GmbH )
- Hans-Gert Pöttering ( Former President of the European Parliament , Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V. )
- Günther Schulz (History Department of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn )
- Uli Seher (architect)
- Willi Steul (Director of Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur)
Former advisory board members
- Erik Bettermann (Director Deutsche Welle )
- Ernst Elitz (Director of Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur)
- Carl Fingerhuth (architect)
- Michael Garvens (Managing Director of Flughafen Köln / Bonn GmbH)
- Stephan Gemkow (Member of the Board of Management Deutsche Lufthansa AG )
- Ruth Hieronymi (Member of the European Parliament)
- Karl-Ludwig Kley (Chairman of the Executive Board of Merck KGaA )
- Jörg Maier (Chair for Economic Geography and Regional Planning at the University of Bayreuth )
- Petra Roth (Lord Mayor of the City of Frankfurt am Main )
- Bernhard Vogel (former Prime Minister, President of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.)
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ City of Cologne: Konrad Adenauer Prize for the former Latvian President , accessed on November 6, 2010.
- ↑ Press release of June 29, 2012
- ↑ Gregor Timmer: The 2015 Konrad Adenauer Prize goes to Vitali Klitschko. City of Cologne - Office for Press and Public Relations, December 9, 2014, accessed on December 9, 2014 .
- ↑ City of Cologne press release of September 23, 2019: Star conductor Daniel Barenboim receives Konrad Adenauer Prize , accessed on September 23, 2019
- ↑ Board of Trustees and Advisory Board. City of Cologne, archived from the original on May 4, 2015 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .