Leo Baeck Prize
The Leo Baeck Prize is the highest award given by the Central Council of Jews in Germany .
Founded in 1956, it has been given annually since 1957 in memory of the Jewish scientist and Rabbi Leo Baeck . This award honors personalities who have made an outstanding contribution to the Jewish community in Germany. The Leo Baeck Prize is endowed with € 10,000.
Award winners
- 1957: Peter Adler and Hermann Levin Goldschmidt
- 1958: Hans Günther Adler , Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich and Erwin Sylvanus
- 1959: Eleonore Sterling and Schalom Ben-Chorin
- 1960/1961: Karl Otten , Heinrich Strauss , Walter Kaufmann and Joseph Wulf
- 1962: David Baumgardt , Reinhold Mayer (1926–2016), Franz Rödel
- 1963: Hans-Joachim Herberg , Helmut Paul , Julius I. Löwenstein , Pnina Navé Levinson
- 1964: Konrad Schilling
- 1965: Ernst Blum (lawyer)
- 1966: Ludwig Wörl
- 1967: Charles H. Jordan (posthumous)
- 1970: Franz Böhm and Johannes Giesberts
- 1971: Rolf Vogel
- 1973: Hendrik George van Dam (posthumous)
- 1975: Jeanette Wolff
- 1977: Josef Neuberger (posthumously)
- 1980/1981: Bernhard Brilling , Anton Maria Keim and Robert Weltsch
- 1988/1989: Gisbert zu Putlitz and Gerhard Rau
- 1990: Heiner Lichtenstein
- 1992: Norddeutscher Rundfunk
- 1994: Richard von Weizsäcker
- 1995: Johannes Rau
- 1996: grandstand. Journal for the Understanding of Judaism , Otto R. Romberg
- 1997: Helmut Kohl
- 1998: Roman Herzog
- 1999: Berthold Beitz , Else Beitz
- 2000: Friede Springer
- 2001: Hans-Jochen Vogel
- 2002: Iris Berben
- 2003: Ralph Giordano
- 2004: Joschka Fischer for his services in the Middle East conflict as a mediator between Palestinians and Israelis .
- 2005: Peter Hommelhoff
- 2006: Hubert Burda
- 2007: Angela Merkel
- 2009: Theo Zwanziger
- 2011: Christian Wulff
- 2013: Nikolaus Schneider
- 2015: Volker Beck
- 2018: Norbert Lammert
- 2019: Mathias Döpfner
literature
- 50 years of the Leo Baeck Prize. 1957-2007. Awarded by the Central Council of Jews . Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz and Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938485-67-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Merit for Tolerance In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger .de, October 30, 2001, accessed on July 27, 2019.
- ^ Leo Baeck Prize for Iris Berben. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger .de. February 24, 2002, accessed July 30, 2019 .
- ^ Laudatory speech by the poet and songwriter Wolf Biermann. ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2009 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.
- ^ Central Council of Jews in Germany Kdö.R: Mathias Döpfner receives Leo Baeck Prize. January 18, 2019, accessed May 15, 2019 .
