Quadriga (price)

The Quadriga (here the copy given to Wikipedia in 2008 with a corresponding engraving in the base)

“The Quadriga” was an annual event in Berlin from 2003 to 2010 by the now insolvent “Netzwerk Quadriga gGmbH” on the initiative of the “ Werkstatt Deutschland e. V. “ award . The award was given to personalities or groups from politics, business and culture who, through their commitment, should have set an example for new beginnings, renewal and pioneering spirit. Until 2007, the prize was endowed with 100,000 euros, which were divided into four sub-prizes. After the withdrawal of the sponsor Vattenfall in 2008 it was undoped.

In 2011, the intention to award the prize to Vladimir Putin sparked massive protests. As a result, the award was initially suspended; then the award was never given again. The association was deleted from the register on March 14, 2017 . Insolvency proceedings were opened against Netzwerk Quadriga gGmbH and the company was dissolved on April 18, 2018.

The board of Werkstatt Deutschland e. V. and the Netzwerk Quadriga gGmbH included the politician Lothar de Maizière , the spokesman for the Association of Towns and Municipalities, Franz-Reinhard Habbel , and the publicist Marie-Luise Weinberger; the first chairman was the politician Klaus Riebschläger, who died in 2009 .

Award

The prize consisted of a miniature replica of the Quadriga on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The award ceremony took place annually on the Day of German Unity in Berlin: in the first two years in the Konzerthaus Berlin (Schauspielhaus) and from 2005 to 2008 in the Komische Oper . In 2009 the Quadriga was awarded in the Weltsaal of the Federal Foreign Office and again in 2010 in the Konzerthaus Berlin on Gendarmenmarkt.

Suspension of awards in 2011

For 2011 it was planned to award a prize to Vladimir Putin , which led to criticism from the public. The decision was criticized, among others, by the former SED opponent and civil rights activist Roland Jahn as well as Markus Löning , the human rights commissioner of the federal government. The Green politician Cem Özdemir resigned on the grounds that he held Putin out of the award committee as the “wrong winner”. The historian Edgar Wolfrum and the founder of the Berlin Bela Foundation, Barbara-Maria Monheim, also resigned in protest. Václav Havel threatened to return the award and Ólafur Elíasson returned his 2010 award on July 15, 2011 in protest. Ruprecht Polenz (CDU), the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag, criticized Putin only developed Russia economically, but not advanced the rule of law and the realization of human rights in Russia . The human rights policy spokeswoman for the Union parliamentary group Erika Steinbach said that "the value of the prize can only be saved if the decision is revised".

As a consequence of the criticism, the Board of Trustees decided in mid-July 2011 to completely cancel the award for 2011. Besides Putin, the nominees were actually:

• the Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa ,
• the Turkish-born author and teacher Betül Durmaz and
• the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad .

Award winners

2003

• Armin Mueller-Stahl , German actor, in the Charisma des Cosmopolitan category
• Norman Foster , British architect, in the Republic Symbol category
• Jean-Claude Juncker , Luxembourg Prime Minister, and Einars Repše , Latvian Prime Minister, in the category motors for growing together
• Amal Rifai , Odelia Ainbinder and Sylke Tempel , authors of We both want to live here: A difficult friendship in Jerusalem , in the category Project of Reconciliation

2004

• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , Turkish Prime Minister, in the Bridges of Respect category
• Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt , French writer, in the wisdom of smiling category
• Thomas Quasthoff , German bass-baritone, in the Aura category of the championship
• Šimon Pánek , Czech civil rights activist, in the Caritas category of the Civil Society
• Hamid Karzai , President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, in the United we Care category

2005

• Helmut Kohl , former German Chancellor, in the Cairo category of history
• Timothy Berners-Lee , British scientist, creator of the World Wide Web , in the Network of Knowledge category
• Catherine McCartney, Claire McCartney, Donna McCartney, Gemma McMahon, Paula Arnold and Bridgeen, Hagans, relatives of Robert McCartney, who was murdered by the IRA, who are calling for the perpetrators to be punished in Northern Ireland in the category of power of civil courage
• HH the Aga Khan , head of the Ismailis, in the United we Care category

2006

• Shimon Peres , Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, in the Position of Understanding category
• Riccardo Illy , Italian politician, in the European credibility category
• Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck , Ulrich Mühe and Sebastian Koch , German film artists (for the film The Lives of Others ), in the category Dialectics of the Ambivalent
• Viktor Yushchenko , President of Ukraine, in the United we Care category

2007

Prize winners and laudators 2007

• Gerhard Schröder , former German Chancellor, in the Risk of Caesura category
• Aicha El-Wafi and Phyllis Rodriguez, mothers of a perpetrator and a victim of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , who advocate reconciliation, in the Reconciliation Model category
• Der Spiegel , represented by Stefan Aust , editor-in-chief, in the category Institution der Republik
• Silvia , Queen of Sweden, in the United we Care category

2008

Award winners and laudators 2008

• Boris Tadić , Serbian President, in the Courage of Perseverance category
• Eckart Höfling , Franciscan priest and head of the social welfare organization Venerável Ordem Terceira de São Franciso de Peniténcia in Rio de Janeiro, in the category Home of Charity
• Wikipedia , represented by Jimmy Wales , in the Enlightenment Mission category
• Peter Gabriel , English musician and human rights activist, in the United we Care category

2009

• José Manuel Barroso , President of the European Commission, in the United for the better category
• Change for Equality , Iranian women's rights organization, represented by Rezvan Moghaddam and Farbia Davoodi , in the category “ Netz der Civil Courage”
• Marius Müller-Westernhagen , artist, in the category Sound of Freedom
• Bärbel Bohley , civil rights activist and initiator of the Neues Forum, and Václav Havel , writer and former President of the Czech Republic, in the category Power of walking upright
• Mikhail Gorbachev , Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and former President of the USSR, in the Dynamic of Hope category

2010

Award ceremony 2010 in the Schauspielhaus in Berlin

• Olafur Eliasson , artist in Berlin, in the Art of Interaction category (Eliasson returned his prize to Vladimir Putin on July 15, 2011 in protest about the planned 2011 award ceremony .)
• Giorgos Papandreou , Greek Prime Minister, for restructuring financial policy and averting national bankruptcy, in the category Power of Truthfulness
• The Bundeswehr , represented by Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg , Federal Minister of Defense, and Lieutenant General Günter Weiler , Deputy Inspector General, in the category Service of Responsibility
• Albrecht and Kristina Hennig, founders of the Sagarmatha Choudhary Eye Hospital, Lahan (Nepal), in the category Light of Empathy
• Lothar de Maizière , lawyer, and Wolfgang Schäuble (represented by Ms. Ingeborg and daughter Juliane), Federal Minister of Finance, in the category Architecture of Unity .

Laudators

2003

• Peter Ustinov
• Friedrich-Christian Flick
• Kjell Magne Bondevik
• Sayed Kashua
• Avi Primor

2004

• Gerhard Schröder
• Obiora Ike
• Mario Adorf
• Armin Rohde
• Lech Wałęsa
• Michael Rogowski

2005

• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Klaus Kleinfeld
• Maria Furtwängler
• Hamid Karzai
• Benjamin William Mkapa

2006

• Wolfgang Schäuble
• Lilli Gruber
• Nico Hofmann
• Karim Aga Khan IV.

2007

• Viktor Yushchenko
• Bernard Kouchner , José Ramos-Horta
• Kurt Beck
• Joschka Fischer

2008

• Heinz Fischer
• Frank-Walter Steinmeier
• David Weinberger
• Jean Asselborn

2009

• Donald Tusk
• Jaleh Lackner-Gohari
• Astrid Kirchherr
• Jens Reich
• György Konrád

2010

• Daniel Birnbaum
• Josef Ackermann
• Sigmar Gabriel
• Iris Berben
• Richard Schröder

Web links

Commons : Quadriga Award  - Collection of Images

• Former website of Netzwerk Quadriga gGmbH ( Memento from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Former website of Werkstatt Deutschland e. V. ( Memento from July 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charlottenburg District Court , HRB 123138
2. ↑ Self-assessment by the awarder according to tafelderdemokratie.de ( memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ taz.de: The Quadriga Bubble , July 18, 2011
4. ↑ District Court Berlin-Charlottenburg VR 14373, entry from March 14, 2017.
5. ↑ Commercial register excerpt HRB 123138 B of April 18, 2018: "Netzwerk Quadriga gGmbH, Berlin, Unter den Linden 80 / 3c, 10117 Berlin. Legal relationship: The company is dissolved due to the opening of insolvency proceedings in accordance with Section 60 (1) No. 4 GmbHG. "
6. ↑ Claudia von Salzen : Critique of Putin Award. Does Wikipedia return Quadriga price? In: Der Tagesspiegel from July 11, 2011; Retrieved July 12, 2011.
7. ↑ German unit price for Putin highly controversial  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Berliner Zeitung of July 11, 2011; Retrieved July 12, 2011.  
8. ↑ spiegel.de July 11: Putin's award irritates politicians and human rights activists
9. ↑ faz.net: Unprincipled (comment by Kerstin Holm)
10. ↑ Özdemir resigns from committee: Whirling around Quadriga award for Putin ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at rp-online.de, July 13, 2011 (accessed July 13, 2011). 
11. ↑ No Quadriga Prize - not even for Putin ( memento of July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in: tagesschau.de of July 16, 2011; Archive copy ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ zeit.de: Özdemir leaves Quadriga Board of Trustees
13. ↑ tagesschau.de July 13, 2011 ( Memento from July 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ faz.net, July 12, 2011: Quarrels about "Quadriga": Putin should receive a price despite criticism
15. ↑ welt.de: Criticism of Putin's honor: Quadriga board of trustees suspends award ceremony
16. ↑ spiegel.de July 16, 2011: Kremlin downgrades price embarrassment
17. ↑ Laureate 2003 ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2008 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. 
18. ↑ Elisabeth Binder: In red socks to the national gala. Der Tagesspiegel, October 5, 2003, accessed on November 24, 2014 . 
19. ↑ 2004 award winners ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
20. ↑ Laureate 2005 ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2008 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. 
21. ^ Quadriga Prize for Kohl and Aga Khan. Der Tagesspiegel, September 30, 2005, accessed on November 24, 2014 . 
22. ↑ Prizewinner 2006 ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2008 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. 
23. ↑ Yushchenko, Peres and Illy. Der Tagesspiegel, October 3, 2006, accessed on August 15, 2008 . 
24. ↑ 2007 Prize Winners ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2008 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. 
25. ↑ Barbara Jänichen: Quadriga with Queen. Welt Online, October 5, 2007, accessed August 17, 2008 . 
26. ^ Wikipedia receives prize for services to the enlightenment , Spiegel Online , August 20, 2008
27. ↑ September 4, 2009 Quadriga Prize 2009: ( Memento from November 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
28. ^ Peter Ramsauer Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, George Papandreou, Olafur Eliasson, Sigmar Gabriel - The Associated Press October 3, 2010
29. ↑ Artist Olafur Eliasson is honored for his "Art of Interaction" ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
30. ↑ Olafur Eliasson returns Quadriga Prize. faz.net from July 15, 2011