Lucie Bolte Foundation

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The Lucie-Bolte-Stiftung is a foundation under civil law with legal capacity with its seat in Dillingen / Saar . The purpose of the foundation is the non-material and material support of medical research in the fields of liver cirrhosis and liver coma by awarding the Lucie Bolte Prize and the Lucie Bolte Prize .

history

The Lucie Bolte Foundation was set up on January 18, 1980 by the office furniture manufacturer Erich Bolte in memory of his wife Lucie Bolte, née. Stiegler (born February 24, 1906 in Arnsberg , † November 3, 1978 in Riegelsberg ). The Saarwellingen community honored Lucie Bolte in 1991 for her social commitment by naming Lucie-Bolte-Strasse.

Benefactor

Erich Bolte was born on February 8, 1900 in Zirke in the northwest of the Prussian province of Posen . After the end of the First World War and finished school, he enrolled at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg in the shipbuilding department for the winter semester 1920/21 and joined the Corps Saxonia-Berlin. He completed his studies in a very short time in 1924 as a graduate engineer. After a few intermediate stops, he settled in Saarland and built up his own company for the production of office furniture, which had been based in Saarwellingen since 1954 . Erich Bolte died on July 29, 1981 in Cannes and was buried in Riegelsberg .

Lucie Bolte Prize

The Lucie Bolte Prize, endowed with € 15,000 (as of 2017), honors internationally renowned liver researchers. It is the highest award in the field of liver research in Germany and has an international reputation. The award often takes place during the annual meeting of the Society for Research on the Liver.

Prize winners:

Lucie Bolte Prize

The foundation awards the Lucie-Bolte-Förderpreis to young scientists at irregular intervals. Since 1990 13 prizes have been given to the following people:

  • 1990 Detlef Schuppan, Berlin; Lorenz Theilmann, Heidelberg
  • 1991 Hans-Jürgen Schlicht, Ulm; Hans-Ulrich Schulz, Magdeburg
  • 1993 Tilman Sauerbruch, Bonn
  • 1994 Erich Lotterer, Halle; Frieder Berr, Leipzig
  • 1996 Brigitte Vollmar, Homburg
  • 1997 Mrs. Bauer, Homburg
  • 2000 Reiner Wiest, Regensburg; Jörg Heller, Bonn; Christian Rust, Munich
  • 2001 Darius Moradpour, Freiburg im Breisgau

Foundation bodies

The foundation is managed by a board of directors consisting of three members and an advisory board consisting of five members. Manfred Breyer is the chairman of the board. Dieter Häussinger, winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 1991 , is the chairman of the advisory board, to which three chair holders of liver medicine and research belong .

Web links

literature

(to the founder)

  • Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867-1967 , Aachen 1968
  • Joachim Grub: Contributions to the history of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin zu Aachen, 1967-1992 , Aachen 1993

Individual evidence

  1. Thanks to the selfless head of the company in the Saarbrücker Zeitung of February 3, 2011