Peter Wilhelm Müller Foundation

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The Peter Wilhelm Müller Foundation was a private German foundation from 1881 to 1938.

history

The heirs of Peter Wilhelm Müller, who died in 1881, founded the Peter Wilhelm Müller Foundation in 1882 for charity and the promotion of art, science and commerce . On the one hand, less well-off families and people were supported, as well as young people in artistic, scientific and industrial training, and on the other hand, services were rewarded with prizes. The endowment totaled 1,530,982 marks and 82 pfennigs.

The foundation's documents are now in the Institute for Urban History in the Carmelite Monastery in Frankfurt am Main . These are statutes, factual files, rules of procedure, cash receipts, correspondence with external offices, log books, repertories, letters from the Frankfurter Bank from 1881 to 1919 and files on the individual scholarship holders.

Award winners

Honorary award and commemorative medal of the foundation

year category Judges Award winners
1885 painting Andreas Achenbach , Hermann Baisch , Anton von Werner Adolph Menzel
1888 literature Gustav Freytag , Anton Springer (?), Karl Rössler Paul Heyse , Rudolf Baumbach , Ludwig Anzengruber , KF Meyer
1891 philosophy - did not materialize
1894 mathematics Leo Koenigsberger , Max Planck , Emil Warburg Karl Weierstrasse
1897 plastic Gustav Eberlein , Rudolf Maison , Emil Hundrieser Reinhold Begas
1900 music - did not materialize
1903 history Ernst Ludwig Dümmler , Siegmund Riezler , Gerold Meyer von Kronau H. Hauck, Heinrich Friedjung
1906 Naturg. Hugo von Seeliger , Max Verworn , Adolf von Baeyer (?) Ludwig Boltzmann
1909 painting Norbert Schrödl , Hermann Knackfuß , Julius Bergmann Ludwig Knaus
1912 literature Ludwig Fulda , Rudolf Presber , Wilhelm Brambach (Member of the Foundation Board) Herbert Eulenberg , Wilhelm Schmidtbonn
1914 philosophy Wilhelm Wundt Theodor Lipps
1917 mathematics Leo Königsberger , Felix Klein , Max Noether Albert Einstein , David Hilbert
1921 plastic Georg Kolbe , Karl Albicker Gaul (August Gaul?)