Ludwig Wishes Foundation
Ludwig Wishes Foundation | |
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Purpose: | Promotion of understanding and tolerance towards foreign citizens |
Chair: | Kai wishes |
Managing directors: | Matthias Jochem |
Consist: | since 1994 |
Founder: | Wishes AG |
Seat: | Hamburg |
The Ludwig-Wünsche Foundation is a foundation established in 1994 by the Wünsche Aktiengesellschaft in Hamburg to promote understanding and tolerance towards foreign citizens.
Namesake
Name giver is Carl Constantin Ludwig Wünsche (1908–1985).
Laureate Ludwig Wishes Prize
- 1995: Ignatz Bubis
- 1996: Richard von Weizsäcker
- 1997: Nelson Mandela
- 1998: Eduard Shevardnadze
- 1999: Gyula Horn
- 2000: Shimon Peres
Current funding projects
Since February 2012, the foundation has been awarding scholarships for intensive courses in German as a foreign language for foreign pupils and students in cooperation with the Institute for Languages and Communication in Ahrensburg. In the sense of its statutes, the Ludwig-Wünsche Foundation has made it its business to promote the best possible integration of foreign citizens into our society for the good of the community.
Sponsor
Kai wishes son of the namesake of the foundation
In March 2012, Noah Wunsch presented the foundation with one of his works of art, the proceeds of which are to flow into the foundation's work.