Sharpest Blade
The sharpest blade has been awarded by the city of Solingen since 1978 to personalities who are “fair and committed to public interests and who use a particularly honed style in their choice of words and presentation”. The name refers to the reputation of high quality cutlery from the city of Solingen, which is also known as the city of blades .
Award winners
- 1978 Gaston Thorn
- 1979 Ernst Albrecht
- 1980 Bruno Kreisky
- 1981 Leopold Senghor
- 1982 Richard von Weizsäcker
- 1986 Alfred Grosser
- 1992 Gyula Horn
- 2002 Jutta Limbach
- 2005 Lothar Späth
- 2008 Jean-Claude Juncker
- 2011 Joachim Gauck
- 2014 Herta Müller
- 2019 Cem Özdemir
Web links
- Sharpest Blade ( Memento from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on solingen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uwe Vetter: Honorary Prize of the City of Solingen goes to Cem Özdemir. In: rp-online.de. May 10, 2019, accessed May 11, 2019 .