Maximilianeum Foundation
The Maximilianeum Foundation was founded by the Bavarian King Maximilian II in 1852 to support gifted students with free board and lodging. The foundation is based in the Maximilianeum in Munich , where the Bavarian State Parliament is also housed. Well-known scholarship holders were z. B. the biologist Theodor Boveri , the physicist Werner Heisenberg , the politician Franz Josef Strauss and the writer Carl Amery .
History of the foundation
The term Maximilianeum includes three things: the study foundation, the building and the Bavarian state parliament . Even as Crown Prince Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811–1864) came up with the plan to build “a large national building on the Isarhöhe near Munich” to “raise the monarchical national spirit”. This was soon joined by the idea of an “athenaum”, an institution with the aim of making it easier for talented young people (of any class) to attain the level of scientific and intellectual training that is necessary to solve the higher tasks of civil service . In 1852 the "Athenaeum", which since 1857 has been named "Maximilianeum" after the founder, was temporarily housed in a tenement house. Six high school graduates from Bavaria and the Palatinate were selected as scholarship holders, who could study law and political science without material concerns.
Max II was no longer allowed to experience the completion of the institution building, and the foundation was only given its legal form under his son and heir to the throne Ludwig II. According to the document from 1876, the foundation still owns the Maximilianeum building and a gallery today with history pictures and marble busts. After the end of the monarchy in 1918, the protectorate passed through the Maximilianeum to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich; this has remained so to this day. The inflation sapped the foundation's assets up quickly, so the only meager source of income remained the entrance fees for the gallery. The financial situation only improved when the bombed-out Bavarian Parliament moved into the Maximilianeum in 1949, in return for an annual rent of DM 70,000 and in return for the maintenance of the building.
Since 1980, the Wittelsbach Anniversary Foundation has also made it possible for gifted Bavarian girls to receive a scholarship. Since the establishment of the institute, around 800 students have enjoyed the benefits of the foundation.
Admission to the foundation
In order to be accepted into the foundation, one must meet the following requirements:
- School proposal: The highly talented high school graduate must be proposed by the heads of the “grammar schools and the technical and vocational schools in Bavaria and the Palatinate left of the Rhine” by mid-March. The student must be able to demonstrate a "Christian creed and impeccable moral conduct".
- Abitur: The overall grade must be 1.0 and none of the achievements made for this must be less than 13 out of 15 points.
- Ministerial Commissioner Examination: No less than 60 out of 75 points may be achieved in this examination.
- Maxim examination: The Maxim examination takes place in the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture . The student is examined by a panel of about a dozen teachers. In this exam, not only high school material is queried.
In Bavaria and the Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine, around 400 high school graduates achieve an average grade of 1.0 each year. Six to eight candidates are accepted.
Friends of the Maximilianeum Foundation V.
In November 2004 founded former fellows of the Foundation Maximilianeum and its affiliated Wittelsbach Jubilee Foundation in Munich the association Friends of the Foundation Maximilianeum eV
The association supports the work of the Maximilianeum Foundation and the Jubilee Foundation with material donations. These include, in particular, language courses, study visits by scholarship holders to foreign universities as well as scientific and cultural activities. At the same time, it is the aim of the association to bring members and sponsors of both foundations together and thus to give them a forum to establish and expand contacts and in this way to support the two foundations in promoting highly talented young students.
The most famous scholarship holders
| Surname | Lifetime | job |
|---|---|---|
| Eugen von Knilling | 1865-1927 | Politician |
| Werner Heisenberg | 1901-1976 | Physicist (Nobel Prize Winner) |
| Franz Josef Strauss | 1915-1988 | Politician |
| Carl Amery | 1922-2005 | writer |
| Michael Kunze | 1943– | writer |
| Ulrike Draesner | 1962– | Writer |
- The list is taken from the Foundation's official website.
- Other important scholarship holders can be found in the Maximilianeer category .
Individual evidence
- ^ Elisa Britzelmeier: Maximilianeum scholarship holders: next door to the state parliament. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
- ^ Maximilianeum Foundation: Conditions of admission. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Philipp Alvares de Souza Soares: Maximilianeum Foundation: A dormitory for the greatest geek in Bavaria . In: The time . June 10, 2013, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 22, 2020]).
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