Justus Möser Medal
The Justus Möser Medal is the highest honor awarded by the city of Osnabrück . It is named after the lawyer, statesman, writer and historian Justus Möser , who was born in Osnabrück . It was awarded for the first time on the 150th anniversary of his death in 1944 and is usually awarded on Handgiftentag , the first working day of the year, in the historic Friedenssaal of the Osnabrück town hall .
The medal honors personalities who have made a special contribution to the public good, in particular to the city of Osnabrück and the region. The award goes to people who were born in Osnabrück or whose services are connected to the city's cultural life. Creative achievements in the field of art, literature and science are to be honored; in addition, their merits should relate to the cultural life within the Osnabrück area.
On January 10, 1944, the Osnabrück newspaper "Neue Volksblätter" reported, the former "Osnabrücker Volkszeitung":
- After the lecture, Mayor Dr. Gärtner presented the Möser Medal he donated that day, which from now on will always be presented on the Handgiftentage, for the first time to Prof. Brandi for his research into Möser, which stimulates wide circles of science, to the painter Franz Hecker, who in his life's work was our image Osnabrück homeland expressed far beyond our area, to the senior lecturer Prof. Dr. Schirmeyer, who worked in the Historical Association for the knowledge of Möser and the forthcoming new edition of his works, and on Ludwig Bäte, who dealt primarily with Möser's relationship to Goethe and the life of Möser's daughter Jenny von Voigts in his local history and poetry .
The first statute on the award was not formulated until 1954 and gave the council's cultural committee the opportunity to honor not only poets and scholars, but also visual artists. Since all files from the founding period had been destroyed, new criteria had to be set up, in which particular care was taken to exclude political and social merit, as the Lower Saxony Order of Merit was already available for this.
Bearer of the Justus Möser Medal
- 1944 Ludwig Bäte (1892–1977), writer, poet, cultural historian
- 1944 Ludwig Schirmeyer (1876–1960), grammar school professor in Osnabrück and local historian
- 1944 Karl Brandi (1868–1946), historian
- 1944 Franz Hecker (1870–1944), painter and graphic artist
- 1945 Karl Koch , editor of the flora of the Osnabrück government district and the neighboring areas
- 1945 Hermann Rothert (1875–1962), Ministerialrat, historical researcher
- 1952 Christian Dolfen (1877–1961), cathedral archivist , author of the works on the Codex Gisle and the Osnabrück Imperial Cup, restorer of the Osnabrück cathedral
- 1955 Karl Kennepohl (1895–1958), numismatist , teacher at the Carolinum grammar school in Osnabrück
- 1955 Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (1899–1962), graphic artist, painter, sculptor, writer
- 1955 Wilhelm Fredemann (1897–1984), native poet of the Osnabrück region in High and Low German
- 1956 Theodor Heuss (1884–1963), President of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1958 Mathias Wieman (1902–1969), actor
- 1961 Günther Wrede (1900–1977), state archivist and historian
- 1962 Friedrich Vordemberge (1897–1981), painter and art professor
- 1964 Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), writer
- 1966 Karl Kühling (1899–1985), editor-in-chief of the Osnabrück daily newspaper "Neue Tagespost"
- 1968 Hans Bohnenkamp (1893–1977), member of the NSDAP and later the SPD , German educator, university professor and university director
- 1969 Josef Schwetje, professional, political and literary work
- 1979 terre des hommes Germany eV , children's aid organization
- 1983 Franz Schmedt (* 1932), editor-in-chief of the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung"
- 1983 Fritz Wolf (1918–2001), caricaturist
- 1984 Elisabeth Siegel (1901–2002), professor for education and social education
- 1984 Roswitha Poppe, published achievements
- 1984 Hermann Poppe-Marquard (1908–1993), achievements in the cultural field
- 1985 Wilhelm Karmann (1871–1952), company founder
- 1986 Walter Haas (1920–1996), local politician
- 1987 Heinrich Koch, for services to the city's history
- 1990 Theodor Penners, merits in coming to terms with the city's history
- 1991 Manfred Horstmann (1928–1992), President of the University
- 1994 Gisela Wagner, commitment to coming to terms with the work and life of Justus Möser
- 1995 posthumously Hans Georg Calmeyer (1903–1972), lawyer, Righteous Among the Nations
- 1996 Hubert Schlenke (1932–2014), involved in building up and securing the Felix Nussbaum collection for the city of Osnabrück
- 1998 Ursula Flick (1924–2006), Lord Mayor of the City of Osnabrück
- 2003 Johann-Tönjes Cassens (* 1932), former Lower Saxony Minister for Science and Culture
- 2005 Klaus J. Bade (* 1944), historian, founding director of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück
- 2006 Peter Koch (* 1925), teacher and composer, founder of the Lower Saxony Youth Orchestra and the Federal Youth Orchestra
- 2009 Franz-Josef Bode (* 1951), Bishop of the Diocese of Osnabrück
- 2012 Erhard Mielenhausen (* 1942), merits including extraordinary commitment to the expansion and further development of the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
- 2014 Gisela Bohnenkamp, Friedel & Gisela Bohnenkamp Foundation (support for innovative and sustainable educational initiatives)
- 2016 Hans-Wolf Sievert , for his "extraordinary commitment to scientific and intercultural exchange and the strengthening of the relationship with Osnabrück's Chinese friendship city Hefei "
- 2018 Hélène Cixous (* 1937), French writer, for her literary achievements and especially for her book Osnabrück
- 2019 Franz-Josef Hillebrandt, for his commitment to many Osnabrück institutions, in particular for his commitment and his impulses for the establishment and development of the foundation culture in Osnabrück
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ilsetraut Lindemann: The Osnabrück Justus Möser Medal and its bearers In: Heimat-Jahrbuch Osnabrücker Land 1981, p. 170.