Wilhelm Liebknecht Prize
The Wilhelm Liebknecht Prize of the University of Giessen is an award that was launched in 1990 and is awarded to scientists and named after Wilhelm Liebknecht , a member of the Reichstag born in Giessen and co-founder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .
The prize honors “outstanding historical and social science publications” that “deal with the development of civil society in Germany in the spirit of Wilhelm Liebknecht's life's work”. Works on history and politics in the 18th and 19th centuries with a focus on Hesse are taken into account, "which are dedicated to the social foundations for building and securing democratic communities". The prize is endowed with 2500 euros.
The jury includes the mayor of the city of Gießen, a representative of the city council, the chairman of the Upper Hessian history association and the chair for modern history and political science at the Justus Liebig University of Gießen .
Award winners
| year | Award winners | Subject of work |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Michael Wettengel | "The revolution of 1848/49 in the Rhine-Main area" |
| 1993 | Ulrich victory | "The rise and fall of Marburg Neo-Kantianism" |
| 1995 | Ewald Grothe | “Constitution and Constitutional Conflict. The Electorate of Hesse in the first era of Hassenpflug 1830–1837 " |
| 1998 | Dorothee Schimpf | "Emancipation and education of the Jews in the Electorate of Hesse 1807–1866" |
| 2000 | Ralf Roth | "City and bourgeoisie in Frankfurt am Main - A special path from the class to the modern civil society 1760–1914" |
| 2002 | Sylvia Kesper-Biermann | "State and School in Kurhessen 1813–1866" |
| 2017 | Philipp Erbentraut | "Theory and Sociology of Political Parties in the German Pre-March 1815–1848" |
| 2019 | Lea Elsässer | "Whose voice matters? Social and political inequality in Germany " |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guidelines on the award of the Wilhelm Liebknecht Prize by the University of Giessen on January 31, 1990.
- ↑ Gießener Allgemeine, March 4, 1996, p. 7.
- ↑ Liebknecht Prize goes to Philipp Erbentraut . In: Gießener Anzeiger of November 13, 2017. Accessed December 28, 2017.
- ↑ City of Gießen awards Wilhelm Liebknecht Prize to Dr. Lea Elsässer . In: Gießener Anzeiger from November 5, 2019. Retrieved November 11, 2019.