Peter Payer (lawyer)

Peter Payer (born May 1, 1927 in Freudenstadt ; † July 29, 2009 ) was a German lawyer and managing director of the Robert Bosch Foundation .

Life

From the summer semester of 1948, Payer studied law at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , where he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity, Derendingia . He passed his first and second state exam successfully and received his doctorate in 1957 for Dr. iur.

On July 1, 1970, he joined the Robert Bosch Foundation as a permanent employee and became deputy managing director in 1972. From 1977 to 1990 Payer was the full managing director. He has made a particular contribution in the areas of health system research and international understanding. In addition, he was particularly committed to deepening German-French, German-American and German-Polish relations. He has received several awards for his services.

In 1990 he retired. In the same year he became Vice President of the German Poland Institute in Darmstadt. Payer resigned from this post in 2005 for health reasons.

Awards

• 1979: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
• Chevalier des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• Diether von Isenburg Medal

Fonts

• The imperial city of Schwäbisch Gmünd at the end of the 18th century and its transition to Württemberg , 1957.
• Foreign Language Teaching and International Relations , 1982.
• The Robert Bosch Foundation: 1964–1988 , 1991.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen. 1967, master roll no. 942.
2. ↑ Obituary by Peter Payer ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at www.bosch-stiftung.de 
3. ↑ Peter Payer leaves the institute , on www.kulturforum.de