Leo Baeck Medal
The Leo Baeck Medal , named after the liberal German rabbi Leo Baeck , has been awarded at irregular intervals by the Leo Baeck Institute in New York since 1978 to people who have made a special contribution to German-Jewish reconciliation.
This price is not to be confused with the Leo Baeck Prize of the Central Council of Jews in Germany .
Bearer of the Leo Baeck Medal
- 1978 - Axel Springer , publisher, Berlin
- 1980 - Fred W. Lessing , board member of the Leo Baeck Institute New York
- 1995 - Fred Grubel , Secretary and Vice President of the Leo Baeck Institute New York
- 1996 - Ernst Cramer , CEO of the Axel Springer Foundation in Berlin
- 1997 - Helmut Sonnenfeldt , policy advisor and former member of the United States National Security Council
- 1998 - George L. Mosse , Professor at the University of Wisconsin and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 1999 - W. Michael Blumenthal , director of the Jewish Museum Berlin
- 2000 - Edgar Bronfman Sr. , President of the World Jewish Congress
- 2001 - Johannes Rau , Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2002 - Ruth Westheimer , psychotherapist and author
- 2003 - Daniel Libeskind , architect, including the Jewish Museum Berlin
- 2004 - Fritz Stern , historian and author
- 2005 - Otto Schily , Federal Minister of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 2006 - James David Wolfensohn , former President of the World Bank D.
- 2007 - Mathias Döpfner , CEO of the German media company Axel Springer AG
- 2008 - Wolfgang Ischinger , former ambassador
- 2009 - Joschka Fischer , retired Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs D.
- 2010 - Kurt Masur , conductor
- 2010 - Angela Merkel , Federal Chancellor
- 2011 - Anselm Kiefer , painter and sculptor
- 2012 - Margarethe von Trotta , director
- 2013 - Stuart E. Eizenstat , diplomat
- 2014 - Joachim Gauck , Federal President
- 2015 - Ismar Schorsch , President Emeritus of the Leo Baeck Institute
- 2016 - Robert M. Morgenthau
- 2017 - Max Warburg, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of MMWarburg & CO
- 2018 - Huberta von Voss-Wittig and Peter Wittig , ambassadors
- 2019 - Martha Minow , legal scholar and author
Individual evidence
- ^ LBI: Leo Baeck Medal for Kurt Masur
- ^ LBI: LBI Presents Leo Baeck Medal to Chancellor Angela Merkel ; September 21, 2010: Speech by Chancellor Merkel on the award of the Leo Baeck Medal ( 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.
- ↑ http://www.lbi.org/2011/11/leo-baeck-institute-gala-award-dinner/
- ↑ a b c recipient list of the Leo Baeck Medal (English)
Web links
- The Leo Baeck Institute for the medal (English)