East Prussian Cultural Foundation
The East Prussian Cultural Foundation is a foundation based in Ansbach . Its task is to preserve and care for the East Prussian cultural heritage and to make it accessible to research and the public.
history
After 1945, numerous institutions for the care of the cultural heritage of East Prussia were established in the Federal Republic of Germany . These foundations did not come about according to plan, but went back to local activities of individual East Prussians or East Prussian groups. One example is the former East Prussian Hunting Museum in Lüneburg , which was founded in 1958 by forester Hans Loeffke , destroyed by arson in 1959, rebuilt and reopened in 1964 and finally moved into its new building in 1987 as the East Prussian State Museum .
Some institutions managed to get public funding. This was done on the basis of Section 96 of the Federal Expellees Act (BVFG) , according to which “the federal government and the states must preserve the cultural assets of the expulsion areas in the awareness of the expellees and refugees, the entire German people and abroad. For this purpose, archives, museums and libraries must be secured, supplemented and evaluated. The federal and state governments have to promote science and research in fulfilling the tasks that result from the expulsion and the integration of the displaced and refugees, as well as the further development of the cultural achievements of the displaced and refugees ” .
founding
Many activities of the Lüneburg East Prussian State Museum, the East Prussian Cultural Center in Ellingen and the Oberschleißheim East and West Prussian Foundation were not coordinated. In addition, the sponsorship of the three institutions was different, which resulted in problems for the funding ministries in Bonn , Hanover and Munich with a sensible allocation of funds. Therefore, at the end of the 1980s, the Federal Ministry of the Interior came up with the idea of grouping these institutions under the umbrella of a foundation in terms of organization, but not in terms of space and content.
To carry out this measure was club Ostpreußische Cultural Foundation e. V. founded on January 19, 1991. The drafts for the foundation business and the foundation statutes were drawn up with the help of the government of Middle Franconia , the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Culture, Science and Art and the tax office in Ansbach. Reservations of the Ost- und Westpreußenstiftung in Bayern eV towards the statutes, however, meant that it ultimately did not join the East Prussian Cultural Foundation.
In October 1992 in Hanover, the statutes of the East Prussian Cultural Foundation were approved by authorized representatives of the Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen e. V., Hamburg , and the East Prussian Hunting and State Museum e. V., Lüneburg, signed. At the beginning of December 1993 the Bavarian Ministry of Culture approved the statutes, the constituent meeting took place on January 21, 1994 under the direction of the then chairman of the foundation council, the spokesman for the East Prussian Landsmannschaft, Wilhelm von Gottberg in Lüneburg.
The operation of the two facilities in Lüneburg and Ellingen is based on usage contracts. The open character of the foundation allows further accessions and cultural measures of all kinds. The aim is to increase the foundation's capital. This money secures the East Prussian cultural heritage as part of the German cultural property for the next generations.
Web links
- www.ostpreussen.de Information page of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft about the East Prussian Cultural Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sponsorship and funding. Ostpreussisches Landesmuseum , Lüneburg , accessed on April 6, 2014 .