Wilhelm Merton Foundation
The Wilhelm Merton Foundation was established in 1982 by what was then Metallgesellschaft AG on the occasion of its centenary and was endowed as a legally dependent foundation with a capital of 204,512 euros.
Benefactor
It was named after the Frankfurt entrepreneur and patron Wilhelm Merton , who founded the metal company with others in 1891. The Mertonviertel , a new development in the city of Frankfurt am Main, located next to the natural science campus of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , is intended to commemorate him.
history
Mertons foundations of several million Reichsmarks for the young university and the institutes that preceded it, especially the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences , were an essential contribution to the earlier establishment of the foundation university in Frankfurt am Main. The Wilhelm Merton Foundation from 1918 supports economic projects in research and teaching at Goethe University. The remaining assets of the foundation were transferred to the “Foundation for Salaried Employees and Workers of Metallgesellschaft AG” in 1938 , until it was rebuilt in 1982 by what was then Metallgesellschaft AG on the occasion of its centenary. Starting in 1991, it financed a professorship for business administration, economics and world trade, whose sponsorship was assumed in 1996 by the state of Hesse , as agreed .
Added to this is the foundation of a dissertation prize, which is endowed with 5,112.92 euros and is awarded every two years. The award is given to outstanding work that deals with issues of European and international economics and is presented to the Faculty of Economics at Goethe University.
literature
- Ralf Roth: Wilhelm Merton - A global citizen founds a university , Societäts-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 3797312458
- Michael Zils: World Guide to Foundations: Europe , Verlag KG Saur, 2001, ISBN 3598222521
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.ffmhist.de/ffm33-45/portal01/portal01.php?ziel=t_jm_stiftungen_wohlfahrt
- ↑ http://kulturportal.de/-/einrichtungen/detail/38354
- ↑ http://www.studentenpilot.de/finanzen/stipendien/universitaetenstiftungen.htm
- ↑ http://www.egotrip.de/bucher/10/1011_w_merton.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
