German Loss of Cultural Property Center

The German Center for Cultural Property Losses is a foundation of the federal government , the federal states and the municipal umbrella associations for the expansion of provenance research .

The center was founded on January 1, 2015 in Berlin in the legal form of a foundation under civil law with its seat in Magdeburg . The aim is to bundle activities at all levels of government in the field of provenance research .

The following bodies are united under one roof:

• the coordination office for the loss of cultural property
• the office for provenance research,
• the temporary Schwabinger Kunstfund task force and
• the office of the so-called Limbach Commission .

Thematically, the new facility deals with Nazi looted art , but also with the processing of the cultural assets confiscated from the former Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) and the GDR .

The Conference of Ministers of Education unanimously approved the establishment of the foundation. The chairman of the board of trustees is Monika Grütters , Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media .

The chairman of the board of trustees is Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen , her representative is Eckart Köhne .

The practical work is led by a two-person management body. The Board of Trustees appointed the former director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle Uwe Schneede to the honorary board of directors . On February 6, 2017, the Board of Trustees appointed the art historian Gilbert Lupfer as his successor, who took up his post on April 1, 2017.

The position of the full-time executive board is occupied by the former state secretary of the Thuringian interior and justice ministry, Rüdiger Hütte .

See also

• Restitution of looted art

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FAQs, German Loss of Cultural Property Center
2. ^ Federal Government: "German Center for Cultural Property Losses" planned. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
3. ↑ Signal for the education. Bonner General-Anzeiger from 11./12. October 2014, p. 15.
4. ^ Foundation German Center for the Loss of Cultural Property. Foundation statutes. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
5. ↑ WDR: German Center for the Loss of Cultural Property Established: An important signal abroad. Retrieved on October 19, 2014. ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2014 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. 
6. ^ Deutsche Welle. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
7. ↑ Deutschlandradio: Pfeiffer-Poensgen will head the Cultural Property Loss Center. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
8. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
9. ↑ Press release of the German Lost Cultural Center Foundation. Retrieved on July 15, 2015. ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2015 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.