Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation

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Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation
Legal form: Foundation under public law
Purpose: Contemporary history research and political education
Chair: Isabel Fezer
Board of Trustees: Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
Board of Trustees: Frank Boesch
Managing directors: Thomas Hertfelder
Consist: since 1994
Balance sheet total: 1.1 million euros (2016)
Number of employees: 12, u. a. Ernst Wolfgang Becker, Kristian Buchna, Christiane Ketterle, Gudrun Kuip
Seat: Breitscheidstrasse 48
70176 Stuttgart
Website: Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation

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The Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation was established on May 27, 1994 by a law of the German Bundestag as a federal, non-partisan foundation under public law with its seat in Stuttgart . It is one of the six so-called Federal Politician Memorial Foundations and conducts research on contemporary history and civic education. One focus is the life and work of the first Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Theodor Heuss (1884–1963). The foundation maintains a public memorial in his former home in Stuttgart, the Theodor-Heuss-Haus . In its research and educational work, the foundation focuses on the history of democracy and parliamentarism , liberalism , constitutions and political representation in Germany in the 20th century.

Foundation purpose

The foundation's task is to preserve the memory of the work of the first Federal President, Theodor Heuss, and to “make a contribution to understanding recent history and the development of the Federal Republic of Germany”. Furthermore, the foundation is tasked with "collecting, maintaining and managing the estate of Theodor Heuss and evaluating it for the interests of the general public in science, education and politics."

Committees, employees, financing

The foundation has three bodies: a five-member board of trustees, a board of three members, and an advisory board made up of up to 15 scientists. The board of trustees currently includes Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (chairwoman), Ludwig Theodor Heuss (deputy chairman), Christian Lange , Karin Maag and Fritz Kuhn . Representatives are Michael Georg Link , Nils Schmid , Stefan Kaufmann , Fabian Mayer and Barbara Babic-Heuss. The board members are Isabel Fezer as chairwoman, Thomas Hertfelder as deputy chairman and managing director and Georg Streiter . The advisory board currently includes Michele Barricelli , Dorlis Blume , Frank Bösch (chairman), Philipp Gassert , Ewald Grothe , Jens Hacke , Michael Hollmann , Gabriele Metzler (deputy chairwoman), Ursula Münch , Hedwig Richter , Gisela Riescher , Andreas Rödder , Andreas Schulz and Elke Seefried .

The operational work of the foundation is headed by a full-time manager who is also a member of the board. The historian Thomas Hertfelder has been the founding managing director of the Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation since 1997. His deputy is the historian and head of the written archive Ernst Wolfgang Becker . The foundation has twelve employees who are supported by volunteer and student staff.

The foundation is financed from the federal budget and is subject to the legal supervision of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) . The foundation solicits donations for selected projects. The foundation is entitled to accept donations.

The Theodor Heuss House

Theodor Heuss House

After the end of his second term as Federal President, Theodor Heuss retired to his newly built single-family home on Stuttgart's Killesberg in autumn 1959 . He lived there - his wife Elly Heuss-Knapp had died in 1952 - in an educated middle-class atmosphere, wrote his memoirs and answered large numbers of letters that reached him from the population. On December 12, 1963, the former Federal President died in his last domicile.

The foundation acquired the house in 1995 and had it redesigned into a public memorial between 1999 and 2001 on the basis of an architectural competition based on the plans of the Behnisch & Partner office . On March 8, 2002, then Federal President Johannes Rau opened the Theodor-Heuss-Haus as part of a ceremony. In October 2016, the 150,000. Welcomed visitor to the Theodor-Heuss-Haus.

On the ground floor three originally furnished living rooms (living room, study, dining room) can be viewed free of charge. On the garden level of the house, a permanent exhibition on around 200 square meters shows the life and work of Theodor Heuss and his wife Elly Heuss-Knapp. In addition to several themed tours, there is a museum educational offer, especially for schools, about which a museum educational brochure provides information.

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibition on the garden level of the Heuss-Haus

In addition to the permanent exhibition entitled “Theodor Heuss. Publicist - Politician - President ”discusses the question of how Theodor Heuss and his wife dealt with the challenges of the age of extremes in five sections, the foundation regularly presents smaller special exhibitions on selected topics of contemporary history. Under the title “Democracy as a way of life”, the foundation has also been borrowing a touring exhibition designed by it since summer 2014 , which presents the lives of Theodor Heuss and Elly Heuss-Knapp in a color and interactive manner in a modular structure.

Events

Every year the foundation organizes around 40 events, most of which take place in the Theodor-Heuss-Haus, including lectures, seminars, workshops, book presentations and panel discussions. Many of the events will subsequently be made available as recordings on the Foundation's YouTube channel. In its so-called priority series, the foundation deals with topics of current social and political relevance every two years. For the previous series "Model Germany", "Speeches about the Republic", "German Integration Stories", "Democracy in Crisis", "Inequalities" and "Politics as a Profession", the foundation was able to recruit prominent and internationally recognized experts, including Marianne Birthler , Peter Bofinger , Heinz Bude , Wolfgang Huber , Jürgen Kaube , Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , Hans Leyendecker , Christian Lindner , Friedrich Merz , Rita Süssmuth , Christian Wulff and Robert Zollitsch . In the Theodor Heuss Colloquia, the foundation works together with experts in history and political science to deal with topics and questions from current research on contemporary history. The program year concludes with the Theodor Heuss Memorial Lecture, which the Foundation organizes in December in cooperation with the University of Stuttgart . Since April 2020, the foundation has started an online video format with HEUSS AKTUELL in order to continue to be digitally present on topics such as democracy and the rule of law during the closing time of the Theodor-Heuss-Haus in the Corona crisis . In the first video, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger was asked about the question "Rule of law in a state of emergency?" and the restricted fundamental rights during the pandemic .

Theodor Heuss Student Prize

In order to underline the social orientation function of history as a school subject, the foundation has awarded the Theodor Heuss Student Prize since 2009. The award is given to special achievements in the subject of history that have been achieved by students from schools in Baden-Württemberg named after Theodor Heuss or Elly Heuss-Knapp. The award ceremony takes place in July before the start of the summer holidays.

research

Research into contemporary history is one of the foundation's central tasks. The focus is on:

  • the history of democracy and liberalism in Germany in the 20th century
  • the biographies of Theodor Heuss and Elly Heuss-Knapp including the development of scientific source editions
  • the history of the educated middle class in Germany
  • the history of parliamentarism and the forms of political representation and aesthetics in Germany in the 20th century
  • the role of heads of state
  • the analysis of the culture of remembrance

The foundation documents the results of its research in publications as part of its publication series as well as in specialist journals and other media in the contemporary historical research discourse.

Publications

The foundation publishes three series of publications. In the series “Zeithistorische Impulse” (until 2016: “Scientific series of the Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation”) the foundation publishes the results of the Theodor Heuss Colloquia as well as monographs on contemporary historical research. The “Small Series” is aimed at a broader, historically interested public and documents selected lectures and smaller studies on contemporary history. Under the title “Theodor Heuss. Stuttgarter Ausgabe ”, the foundation publishes a scientific edition of the letters, speeches and writings of Theodor Heuss. The “Letters” series has now been completed with eight volumes that were published between 2009 and 2014 and offer an annotated selection from around 60,000 letters written by Heuss.

Library

The foundation has a small research library in which the works by and about Theodor Heuss and Elly Heuss-Knapp are collected, as well as overview works and research on the history of the bourgeoisie, liberalism, and the political and constitutional history of Germany in the 20th century . Use of the library ( reference library ) is open to all interested parties.

Documentation, depot and archive

The foundation collects and preserves media material on Theodor Heuss and Elly Heuss-Knapp in its image, film and sound documentation. These documents, like the units of the property depot, are digitally recorded. The written material archive makes available to its users the very extensive estate of Theodor Heuss, which is distributed across various archives, in a microfilmed form, as well as the files of the Federal President's Office from the Heuss term of office and selected journals.

Publications (selection)

Stuttgart edition

  • Theodor Heuss: Departure in the Empire. Letters 1892–1917. ed. and edit by Frieder Günther . KG Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-44136-3 .
  • Theodor Heuss: Citizen of the Weimar Republic. Letters 1918–1933. ed. u. edit by Michael Dorrmann. KG Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-25122-1 .
  • Theodor Heuss: On the defensive. Letters 1933–1945. ed. and edit by Elke Seefried. KG Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-44129-5 .
  • Theodor Heuss: Educator for Democracy. Letters 1945–1949. ed. and edit by Ernst Wolfgang Becker. KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25125-2 .
  • Theodor Heuss: The Federal President. Letters 1949–1954. ed. and edit by Ernst Wolfgang Becker, Martin Vogt and Wolfram Werner. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023236-3 .
  • Theodor Heuss: The Federal President. Letters 1954–1959. ed. and edit by Ernst Wolfgang Becker, Martin Vogt and Wolfram Werner. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029842-0 .
  • Theodor Heuss: Dear Federal President! The correspondence with the population 1949–1959. ed. and edit by Wolfram Werner. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023235-6 .
  • Theodor Heuss: Privatier and Elder Statesman. Letters 1959–1963. ed. and edit by Frieder Günther. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2014, ISBN 978-3-598-25129-0 .

Scientific series / contemporary historical impulses

  • Thomas Hertfelder, Jürgen C. Heß (ed.): Disputes about the state fragment. Theodor Heuss and Thomas Dehler report on the creation of the Basic Law. With an introduction by Michael F. Feldkamp . Edited by Patrick Ostermann and Michael F. Feldkamp (= scientific series. 1). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-421-05220-4 .
  • Eberhard Jäckel , Horst Möller , Hermann Rudolph (eds.): From Heuss to Herzog. The federal presidents in the political system of the Federal Republic (= scientific series. 2). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-421-05221-2 .
  • Gangolf Hübinger , Thomas Hertfelder (Ed.): Criticism and Mandate. Intellectuals in German politics (= Scientific Series. 3). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-421-05222-0 .
  • Ulrich Baumgärtner : Speeches after Hitler. Theodor Heuss - dealing with National Socialism (= Scientific Series. 4). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-421-05553-X .
  • Ernst Wolfgang Becker , Thomas Rösslein (ed.): Political error in the witness stand. The minutes of the committee of inquiry of the Württemberg-Baden state parliament from 1947 for the approval of the “Enabling Act” of March 23, 1933 (= Scientific Series. 5). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-421-05793-1 .
  • Hans Vorländer (ed.): On the aesthetics of democracy. Forms of political self-expression (= scientific series. 6). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-421-05794-X .
  • Wolfgang Hardtwig , Erhard Schütz (Hrsg.): History for readers. Popular historiography in Germany in the 20th century (= scientific series. 7). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-515-08755-9 .
  • Frieder Günther : Heuss on the move. The foreign representation of the Federal Republic by the first Federal President (= Scientific Series. 8). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08819-9 .
  • Andreas Wirsching , Jürgen Eder (Ed.): Reasonable republicanism in the Weimar Republic. Politics, literature, science (= scientific series. 9). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-09110-6 .
  • Angelika Schaser , Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Ed.): Liberalism and Emancipation. Inclusion and exclusion processes in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic (= scientific series. 10). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-515-09319-4 .
  • Werner Plumpe , Joachim Scholtyseck (ed.): The state and the order of the economy. From the German Empire to the Berlin Republic (= Scientific Series. 11). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10142-4 .
  • Anselm Doering-Manteuffel , Jörn Leonhard (ed.): Liberalism in the 20th century (= scientific series. 12). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-11072-3 .
  • Frank Bösch, Thomas Hertfelder, Gabriele Metzler (eds.): Limits of Neoliberalism. The change in liberalism in the late 20th century (= contemporary historical impulses. 13). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-515-12085-2 .
  • Wolfgang Hardtwig : Freedom of the bourgeoisie in Germany. The Weimar democrat Eduard Hamm between the Empire and the Resistance (= contemporary historical impulses. 14). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-515-12094-4 .

Small series (selection)

  • Thomas Hertfelder (Ed.): Do Men Still Make History? The Stuttgart Theodor-Heuss-Haus in the context of the German memorial landscape (= small series. 2). Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-9805979-4-6 .
  • Parliamentary poetry. Theodor Heuss: The ABC of the Parliamentary Council / Carlo Schmid: Parliamentary Elegy in January. Introduction and commentary by Gudrun Kruip (= small series. 4). Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-9805979-6-2 .
  • Ulrich Sieg : Jewish intellectuals and the crisis of the bourgeois world in the First World War (= small series. 7). Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-9805979-9-7 .
  • Ernst Wolfgang Becker: Authorization to make political errors. The approval of the Enabling Act of 1933 and the policy of remembrance in the first Wuerttemberg-Baden investigation committee of the post-war period (= Kleine Reihe. 8). Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-9807404-0-4 .
  • Thomas Hertfelder (Ed.): In Presidents we trust. The American presidents in the USA's politics of remembrance (= Kleine Reihe. 15). Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-9807404-9-8 .
  • Thomas Hertfelder: From Naumann to Heuss. About a tradition of social liberalism in Germany (= Kleine Reihe. 29). Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-942302-03-6 .
  • Joachim Gauck : Dare to be more civil society. About representative democracy, citizenship and the need to remember (= Kleine Reihe. 30). Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-942302-06-7 .
  • Jutta Allmendinger , Ellen von den Driesch: Myths - facts - starting points. Dimensions of social inequality in Europe (= Kleine Reihe. 31). Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-942302-08-1 .
  • Ulrich Herbert : In the new world order. On German history since 1990 (= Kleine Reihe. 32). Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-942302-09-8 .
  • Kristian Buchna: In the shadow of anti-clericalism. Theodor Heuss, liberalism and the churches (= small series. 33). Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-942302-10-4 .
  • Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger : Freedom under threat. The liberal constitutional state in times of terrorism and right-wing populism (= Kleine Reihe. 34). Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-942302-11-1 .
  • Frank Bösch : Politics as a profession. On the change of an insulted profession since 1945 (= Kleine Reihe. 35). Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-942302-13-5 .
  • Herfried Münkler : The New Wars. For the return of a historical pattern (= Kleine Reihe. 36). Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-942302-14-2 .

more publishments

  • Thomas Hertfelder (Ed.): Heuss in profile. Lectures and discussions at the opening ceremony of the Federal President-Theodor-Heuss-Haus Foundation on 29./30. November 1996. With contributions by Ralf Dahrendorf , Jürgen C. Heß , Hans Peter Mensing u. a. Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-9805979-2-X .
  • Thomas Hertfelder: Books and their stories. To the historical-political private library of Theodor Heuss. Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-9807404-2-0 .
  • Thomas Hertfelder, Christiane Ketterle (ed.): Theodor Heuss. Publicist - politician - president. Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-9807404-4-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Federal Law Gazette . (PDF) Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  2. ^ Committees (homepage of the foundation). August 21, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  3. Annual report 2016 of the foundation. (PDF) Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  4. ^ Thomas Hertfelder, Christiane Ketterle: Theodor Heuss. Publicist, politician, president. Ed .: Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-9807404-4-7 , pp. 22-23 .
  5. Theodor-Heuss-Haus in Stuttgart-Nord: The 150,000th visitor for “dem Heuss sein Häusle” . In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de . ( stuttgarter-nachrichten.de [accessed on August 24, 2018]).
  6. living spaces (homepage of the foundation). Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  7. Permanent exhibition (homepage of the foundation). Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Guided tours (homepage of the foundation). Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  9. Museum educational brochure. (PDF) Bundespräsident-Theodor-Heuss-Haus Foundation, accessed on August 24, 2018 .
  10. Special exhibitions (homepage of the foundation). Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  11. Democracy as a way of life. A traveling exhibition on Theodor Heuss and Elly Heuss-Knapp (homepage of the foundation). Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  12. ^ Event overview (homepage of the foundation). Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  13. ^ Youtube channel of the Federal President-Theodor-Heuss-Haus Foundation. Accessed April 21, 2020 (German).
  14. Information on the focus series (homepage of the foundation). Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  15. YouTube video of the panel discussion on October 24, 2017 with Rita Süssmuth, Susanne Gaschke and Ernst Wolfgang Becker on the subject of “Side entrants in politics”. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  16. YouTube video of the panel discussion on April 11, 2018 with Christian Wulff, Hans Leyendecker and Kristian Buchna on the subject of "Bad steps prohibited? Culture of outrage and political public". Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  17. HEUSS AKTUELL: "Rule of Law in a State of Emergency?" Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger in conversation with Kristian Buchna, Heuss-Haus Foundation. In: youtube channel. Bundespräsident-Theodor-Heuss-Haus Foundation, April 17, 2020, accessed on April 21, 2020 (German).
  18. Publications of the Foundation. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  19. Library of the Foundation. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  20. ^ Foundation archive. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .