Reinhold Maier Medal
Since 1989, the Reinhold Maier Medal has been awarded to people who “have made a special contribution to liberalism and the value of freedom”.
The medal is awarded alternately by the Reinhold Maier Foundation , the FDP / DVP parliamentary group and the FDP Baden-Württemberg .
Award winners
- 1989: Hermann Müller , Minister of Finance of Baden-Württemberg
- 1990: Wilhelm Hofmann , German teacher and politician
- 1991: Theodor Eschenburg , professor of political science at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
- 1993: Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Foreign Minister and Federal Chairman of the FDP
- 1994: Ralf Dahrendorf , German-British sociologist, politician and publicist
- 1996: Marion Gräfin Dönhoff , editor-in-chief and co-editor of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit
- 1997: Ulrich Wildermuth , editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Südwest Presse
- 1998: Otto Graf Lambsdorff , Minister of Economics and Federal Chairman of the FDP
- 1999: Martin Bangemann , Minister of Economic Affairs and EU Commissioner
- 2000: Walter Scheel , Foreign Minister and Federal President
- 2001: Wolfgang Mischnick , Federal Minister for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims and Chairman of the FDP parliamentary group
- 2002: Reinhold Würth , entrepreneur at the Würth screw trading company and professor
- 2004: Hans D. Barbier , journalist and chairman of the Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung
- 2005: Klaus Kinkel , President of the BND, Federal Minister and Federal Chairman of the FDP
- 2007: Helmut Markwort , journalist, publishing manager and former editor-in-chief and publisher of the news magazine Focus
- 2007: Neelie Kroes , Dutch politician of the liberal People's Party for Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD)
- 2008: Wolfgang Gerhardt , chairman of the FDP parliamentary group and FDP federal chairman and chairman of the board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
- 2009: Notker Wolf OSB , Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation
- 2010: Ludwig Georg Braun , German entrepreneur and former CEO of the pharmaceutical and medical supplies company B. Braun Melsungen
- 2011: Sky du Mont , German actor
- 2012: Helen Zille , South African journalist and politician, Chair of the Democratic Alliance (DA)
- 2014: Ingo Kramer , German entrepreneur and employer functionary
- 2015: Thomas Bach , German athlete and President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
- 2016: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , liberal daily newspaper from Switzerland
- 2017: Margrethe Vestager , Danish politician of the social liberal party Det Radikalische Venstre (RV)
- 2018: Hans Peter Stihl , German entrepreneur
- 2019: Jürgen Morlok , German politician of the FDP and management consultant
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhold Maier Medal . www.reinhold-maier-stiftung.de. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
- ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung , December 10, 2016 .