Wolf Erich Kellner Memorial Foundation
| Wolf Erich Kellner Memorial Foundation (WEK Foundation) |
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| Legal form: | Foundation under civil law |
| Purpose: | Award of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize |
| Chair: | Joachim Scholtyseck |
| Managing directors: | Ewald Grothe (Fiduciary) |
| Consist: | since 1964 |
| Founder: | Otto waiter |
| Foundation capital: | € 50,000 |
| Seat: | bad Godesberg |
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The Wolf Erich Kellner Memorial Foundation was set up in 1964 by his father Otto Kellner in memory of Wolf Erich Kellner . It has endowment capital of € 50,000 and is managed in trust by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom . The purpose of the foundation is to use the interest income or donations to reward a written work that deals “with the history or the spiritual foundations of liberalism in a scientifically valuable way”.
Wolf Erich Kellner Prize
The foundation has awarded the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize annually since 1966 . The science prize is awarded to work “which deals with the fundamentals, history and politics of liberalism in Germany, Europe and beyond in a scientifically valuable manner ”. Studies in the field of history, philosophy, politics, law, social or economic science that are at least 100 pages long are worthy of a prize. The award ceremony takes place at the Liberalism Colloquium of the Archives of Liberalism , which takes place every year between September and December.
The most renowned award winners include the historians Lothar Gall (1968), Dieter Langewiesche (1974), Hartwig Brandt (1986), Günther Heydemann (1992), Christian Jansen (1998), Jörn Leonhard (1999) and Elke Seefried (2009).
Board of Trustees
According to the 2004 statutes, the board of trustees consists of a minimum of seven and a maximum of twelve members. They are appointed for a period of six years by the board of trustees with the approval of the trustee. The members of the Board of Trustees work on a voluntary basis. The board of directors of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, the Board of Directors of the Society for Freedom - Friends and Supporters of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the state board of the FDP Hessen are entitled to propose one member each . Fiduciary of the foundation is the head of the archive of liberalism Ewald Grothe .
The chairman of the board of trustees of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung is currently Joachim Scholtyseck (Bonn), his deputy Eckart Conze (Marburg).
Members of the Board of Trustees are (as of 2020):
- Ernst Wolfgang Becker ( Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation , Stuttgart )
- Eckart Conze ( Philipps University of Marburg )
- Jürgen Frölich ( Archive of Liberalism , Gummersbach )
- Alexander Gallus ( Technical University of Chemnitz )
- Dominik Geppert ( University of Potsdam )
- Jens Hacke ( Hamburg )
- Anne Christine Nagel ( Justus Liebig University Giessen )
- Frank Portz ( Walluf )
- Susanne Schimanski ( food )
- Joachim Scholtyseck ( Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn )
- Elke Seefried ( Institute for Contemporary History , Munich , University of Augsburg )
- Ulrich Sieg (Philipps University of Marburg)
Former members of the Board of Trustees were:
- Cornelia Andriof (Frankfurt am Main)
- Andreas Becker (Lich)
- Peter Becker ( Marburg )
- Werner Brans ( Wetzlar )
- Arnd Brummer (Hamburg)
- Ewald Bucher ( Bonn )
- Sibylle Busch (Hamburg)
- Dieter Dörr (Darmstadt)
- Jörg Eichhorn ( Frankfurt am Main )
- Walter Eschweiler ( Wuppertal )
- Cornelia Freytag (Frankfurt am Main)
- Friedrich Gerhardt ( Hanover )
- Ekkehard Gries (Frankfurt am Main)
- Walter Hammersen ( Wiesbaden )
- Friedrich Henning (Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Bonn)
- Thomas Hertfelder ( Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation , Stuttgart )
- Hermann Hiery ( University of Bayreuth )
- Karl Holl ( University of Bremen )
- Klaus Horn ( Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt )
- Peter Juling (Bonn)
- Karla Kellner (Pforzheim)
- Hermann Kleinstück ( Darmstadt )
- Rainer Koch ( Historical Museum Frankfurt )
- Roland Kohn ( Weinheim )
- Frank-Lothar Kroll ( Chemnitz University of Technology )
- Ulrich Krüger (Wiesbaden)
- Horst-Jürgen Lahmann (Bremen)
- Dieter Langewiesche ( Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen )
- Werner Maihofer ( Bielefeld University )
- Peter Menke-Glückert (Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Bonn)
- Wolfgang Mischnick (Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Bonn)
- Hubertus Müller-Groeling ( Christian Albrechts University Kiel )
- Stefan Otten ( Greifswald )
- Dieter Posch (Frankfurt am Main)
- Hans-Ulrich Rülke ( Pforzheim )
- Angelika Schaser ( University of Hamburg )
- Theo Schiller (Philipps University of Marburg)
- Joachim Schmidt ( Braunfels )
- Helmut Schnorr (Wiesbaden)
- Rolf Schroers ( Theodor Heuss Academy , Gummersbach)
- Thomas Siekermann (Hanover)
- Werner Sill
- Bertram Stenzel (Kelkheim)
- Werner Stephan (Bonn)
- Hans Vorländer ( Technical University of Dresden )
- Eberhard Weghorn (Wiesbaden)
- Barthold C. Witte (Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Bonn)
- Karl Zissel ( Weather )
Web links
- Website of the foundation at the Archive of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
Individual evidence
- ↑ Call for applications 2020. Accessed on June 3, 2020 . On the side of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .
- ^ Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung - award winners . Retrieved June 3, 2020.
- ↑ What we do - Society for Freedom - Friends and Supporters of the FNSt. Retrieved March 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Preis - WEK Memorial Foundation . Retrieved June 2, 2017.
- ↑ "Chinese Language and Culture" website . Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ Andriof on the website of the FDP Oberursel . Retrieved May 13, 2020.
- ^ Announcement about the death of the FDP district chairman Andreas Becker (1964–2015) . In: Gießener Allgemeine , November 9, 2015. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
- ↑ Farewell to Dr. Bush. FDP district association Hamburg-Altona, accessed on November 5, 2018 .
- ^ Website of the FDP parliamentary group in the Hanover region . Retrieved March 14, 2018.
- ^ Website of the FDP Marburg-Biedenkopf . Retrieved March 14, 2018.