Wolf Erich Kellner Prize

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Wolf Erich Kellner (1930–1964)

The Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Preis of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung has been awarded annually since 1966 for works from a wide variety of disciplines, in particular the humanities , social , legal and economic sciences , which are in the interests of the historian and archivist Wolf Erich Kellner “ treat the basics, history and politics of liberalism in German, European and non-European countries in a scientifically valuable manner . The contributions can deal with theoretical, historical and contemporary issues or deal with the shape and development of contemporary liberalism in politics, economy or culture. "

The prize is named after the German archivist, historian and FDP politician Wolf Erich Kellner (1930–1964) and is administered in trust by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom for the Wolf Erich Kellner Memorial Foundation; Fiduziar is the head of the Archives of Liberalism Ewald Grothe . The prize money is 2,000 euros.

Award winners

The most renowned prize winners include the historians Lothar Gall (1968), Dieter Langewiesche (1974), Hartwig Brandt (1986), Eberhard Demm (1988), Günther Heydemann (1992), Christian Jansen (1998), Jörn Leonhard (1999) and the Historian Elke Seefried (2009).

Dieter Langewiesche, 1974 WEK Prize Winner
Eberhard Demm, WEK Prize Winner 1988
Jörn Leonhard, WEK Prize Winner 1999
Elke Seefried, WEK Prize Winner 2009
Sabine Mecking, WEK Prize Winner 2010, with Joachim Scholtyseck
Volker Stalmann (left), WEK Prize Winner 2011, with Eckart Conze
Klara Deecke and Marko Kreutzmann (right), WEK Prize Winners 2012, with Joachim Scholtyseck
Mark Schweda (left), WEK Prize winner 2013, with Dominik Geppert
Henning Türk (left), WEK Prize Winner 2015, with Joachim Scholtyseck
Franziska Meifort, 2016 WEK Prize winner, with Joachim Scholtyseck
Fabian Rausch (left), WEK Prize Winner 2016, with Joachim Scholtyseck
Manuel Limbach, WEK Prize Winner 2017, with Elke Seefried
Matthias Oppermann (center), WEK Prize winner 2018, with Joachim Scholtyseck and Anne Chr. Nagel
Desiderius Meier (2nd from left), WEK Prize Winner 2019, left Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , right Joachim Scholtyseck and Anne Chr. Nagel
year Award winners Subject of work
1966 Michael Krejci "The Frankfurter Zeitung and National Socialism 1923–1933"
1967 Regina Gottschalk “The left-wing liberals between the Empire and the Weimar Republic . From the July crisis in 1917 to the breakup of the Weimar coalition in June 1919 "
Hans-Otto Rommel “The young democratic movement at the time of the Weimar Republic. Attempt to show the historical development of the democratic youth movement in the Weimar Republic "
1968 Lothar Gall “Liberalism as the ruling party. The Grand Duchy of Baden between restoration and the founding of an empire "
1969 Eckart Pankoke “ Social Movement - Social Issue - Social Politics. Basic questions of German social science in the 19th century "
1970 Detlev Acker " Walter Schücking - a biography with special consideration of Schücking's activities in the League of Nations movement "
1971 Werner Stephan "History of the German Democratic Party "
Stephan Graf Vitzthum " Albert Hänel (1833–1918) - left-liberal politics and material constitutional law "
1972 Dieter Düding "The National Social Association 1896–1903"
1973 Werner Schiefel " Bernhard Dernburg 1865-1937"
1974 Dieter Langewiesche "Liberalism and Democracy in Württemberg - Between Revolution and Forging an Empire"
Horst founder " Walter Simons as a statesman, lawyer and church politician"
1975 Rainer Koch “Democracy and the state at Julius Fröbel . Structure and failure of an early bourgeois utopia "
1976 Jürgen C. Hess “'It should be the whole of Germany'. Democratic nationalism in the Weimar Republic using the example of the German Democratic Party "
1977 Karl Graf Ballestrem “The Scottish Enlightenment . Moral philosophy and social theory with David Hume and Adam Smith and with some of their friends "
1978 Editor: Gert Zang
Co-authors: Dieter Bellmann, Wolfgang Hein, Heiner Siefken, Werner Trapp, Volker Wünderlich		 “Provincialization of a region. Regional underdevelopment and liberal politics in the city and in the district of Konstanz in the 19th century. Studies on the emergence of civil society in the province "
1979 Monika Fassbender-Ilge “Liberalism - Science - Realpolitik. Investigation of the ' German State Dictionary ' by Johann Caspar Bluntschli and Karl Brater as a contribution to the history of liberalism between the 48th revolution and the establishment of an empire "
1980 Thomas Parent "' Passive Resistance ' in the Prussian Constitutional Conflict - The Cologne Members ' Festival "
1981 Ursula Susanna Gilbert " Hellmut von Gerlach (1866–1935) - Stations of a German Liberal from the Empire to the 'Third Reich'"
1982 Theo Rütten "Germany and Social Policy of the East and West German Liberals in the Emerging Phase of the Two German States"
Peter Theiner " Friedrich Naumann in Wilhelmine Germany (1860-1919)"
1983 Rita Aldenhoff “ Schulze Delitzsch . A contribution to the history of liberalism between revolution and democracy "
1984 Dieter Hein "Between the Liberal Milieu Party and the National Collection Movement - Foundation, Development and Structure of the Free Democratic Party 1945–1949"
1985 Marie-Lise Weber " Ludwig Bamberger - Ideology instead of Realpolitik "
1986 Hartwig Brandt " Parliamentarism in Württemberg 1819-1870"
1987 Günter Mohrmann “Party and program construction. An analysis of organizational reality and the innovation effect of creating party programs using the example of the Bremen Free Democratic Party "
1988 Eberhard Demm “A liberal in the empire and republic. The political biography of Alfred Weber , 1868–1920 "
1989 Michael Wettengel “The revolution of 1848/49 in the Rhine-Main area . Political associations and everyday revolution in the Grand Duchy of Hesse , Duchy of Nassau and in the Free City of Frankfurt "
1990 Wolf Volker Weigand “ Walter Wilhelm Goetz (1867–1958). A biographical study of the historian, politician and publicist "
1991 Horst Sassin "Liberal Resistance to National Socialism "
Hans-Georg Fleck " Social liberalism and the trade union movement in Germany"
1992 Günther Heydemann “Repression or Reform? The Stability of the European State System as a Problem of British Policy on Germany and Italy 1815–1848 "
1993 Andreas Biefang "National organizations and national elites of the political bourgeoisie in Germany 1857–1867"
1994 Martin Liepach “The voting behavior of the Jewish population. On the political orientation of the Jews in the Weimar Republic "
1995 Anne Christine Nagel “ Martin Rade - theologian and politician of social liberalism. A political biography "
Claudia Lepp "The German Protestant Association from 1863 to 1888. An ecclesiastical-liberal answer to the challenge of modernity"
1996 Martina Neumann " Theodor Tantzen - an unruly liberal against National Socialism "
1997 Ulrike von Hirschhausen “Liberalism in transition. The ' Deutsche Zeitung ' 1847-1850 "
1998 Christian Jansen “Unity, Power and Freedom. The Paulskirche left and German politics in the post-revolutionary era "
1999 Jörn Leonhard “Mixture of languages ​​and confusion of terms: Comparative studies of the historical semantics of liberalism in the 19th century. France, Germany, Italy and England in comparison "
2000 Angelika Schaser “ Helene Lange and Gertrud Bäumer . Politics as a profession from the German Empire to the Federal Republic of Germany "
2001 Heide-Marie Lauterer "... across opposites into a new future" - life paths, political self-image and actions of women parliamentarians in Germany 1918–1953 "
Karl-Heinz Breier "Guiding principles of freedom and their significance for political education in a republic"
2002 Editor: Karl Heinrich Pohl "Politicians and citizens - Gustav Stresemann and his time"
2003 Michael Dreyer " Hugo Preuss (1860–1925) - Biography of a Democrat"
2004 Harald Biermann “Ideology instead of realpolitik. The foreign policy thoughts of the small German- oriented liberals after the end of the 1848/49 revolution up to the establishment of the empire in 1870/71 "
2005 Manuel Borutta "Liberal Anti-Catholicism - Germany and Italy in the Age of European Cultural Struggles "
Frank Möller “ Heinrich von Gagern . A biography "
2006 Jens Hacke “A philosophy of bourgeoisie. The Liberal Conservative Foundation of the Federal Republic "
2007 Arndt Kremer “The struggle over language in the German-Jewish discourse. The liberal German Jews in the conflict between language-determined cultural nation and racial anti-Semitism (1895–1933) "
2008 - no awards
2009 Elke Seefried “ Theodor Heuss . On the defensive. Letters 1933–1945 "
2010 Sabine Mecking “ Territorial reform and citizens' will. Democracy development and reform of the state and society using the example of municipal reorganization in North Rhine-Westphalia "
2011 Volker Stalmann " Bernhard Falk (1867–1944) - Memories of a Liberal Politician"
2012 Klara Deecke “State economy brought down from heaven. Concepts of liberal economic policy in the university and administration 1785–1845 - Characteristics and breaks using the example of East Prussia and Western Pomerania "
Marko Kreutzmann “The higher officials of the German Customs Union . A bureaucratic functional elite between national interests and interstate integration (1834–1871) "
2013 Mark Schweda “Division and compensation. Joachim Ritter's Philosophical Theory of the Modern World "
2014 Inka Le-Huu “The social emancipation of the Jews . Jewish-Christian encounters among the Hamburg bourgeoisie (1830–1871) "
2015 Henning Turk "Shaper of progress - Ludwig Andreas Jordan (1811-1883), the Palatinate wine bourgeoisie and German liberalism in the 19th century"
2016 Franziska Meifort “ Ralf Dahrendorf . A German-British intellectual between science, politics and the public "
Fabian Rausch “Constitution and Revolution. A cultural history of the constitution in France 1814–1851 "
2017 Manuel Limbach “Citizens against Hitler. Prehistory, structure and work of the Bavarian ' Sperr -kreis' "
2018 Matthias Oppermann “Triumph of the Middle. The Temperance of the Old Whigs and the Rise of British Liberal Conservatism, 1750-1850 "
2019 Desiderius Meier “ Hermann Dietrich . A liberal citizen in the Weimar Republic "

Board of Trustees

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Wolf Erich Kellner Memorial Foundation is Joachim Scholtyseck (Bonn), his deputy Eckart Conze (Marburg). The Board of Trustees appoints the experts from among its members; it forms the jury for awarding the award.

Current members

Members of the Board of Trustees are currently:

Former members

Others

The Philipps University of Marburg awards a Medieval Prize, which is also named after Wolf Erich Kellner. The Wolf Erich Kellner Foundation that advertised was canceled in 2005.

Web links

Commons : Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Preis  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung Prize 2020. (PDF; 9.83 kB) Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom | Archives of Liberalism, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  2. ^ Prize of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Foundation. Kulturpreise.de, accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  3. ^ Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung - award winners. (PDF; 219 kB) Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom | Archives of Liberalism | Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Weingarten University of Education , approval work for the first service examination for teaching at elementary schools, 1966.
  5. ^ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , phil. Diss. 1968, published under the title: Walther Schücking. 1875–1935 , Aschendorff, Münster 1970.
  6. ^ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, phil. Diss. 1972, published under the title: Bernhard Dernburg. 1865-1937. Colonial politician and banker in Wilhelmine Germany. Atlantis, Zurich / Freiburg 1974, ISBN 3-7611-0445-6 .
  7. ↑ In addition to a biography about Adam Smith (Beck, Munich 1991, ISBN 978-3-406-45976-4 ) among others: The Scottish Enlightenment. A report on the state of research. In: Harald Dickerhof (Hrsg.): Heinz Hürten's sixtieth birthday celebration. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Bern, New York, Paris 1988, pp. 317–334.
  8. ^ Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , phil. Diss. 1984, published under the title: Der Deutschen Liberalismus 1945 to 1955. Germany and social policy of the East and West German liberals in the development phase of the two German states. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1984.
  9. ↑ Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , phil. Diss. 1983/84, published by Steiner-Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-515-04792-1 .
  10. ↑ Three and a half decades of teaching in Hamburg. A man for peace. Bundeswehr Leadership Academy , accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  11. ↑ This study went unpublished. Some of it has flowed into Günter Mohrmann: Liberale in Bremen. The FDP parliamentary group in the citizenry 1951–1991. With a foreword by Hans-Dietrich Genscher and a foreword by Claus Jäger , Edition Temmen, Bremen 1991, ISBN 978-3-926958-78-5 .
  12. ↑ Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , phil. Diss. 1992, published by Boldt-Verlag, Boppard am Rhein 1992.
  13. ^ Rainer Koch: Laudation for Wolf Volker Weigand. In: Liberalism and Congregation. 3. Rastatt day on the history of liberalism on 10./11. November 1990. With a foreword by Monika Faßbender and a welcome by Barthold C. Witte. Comdok, Sankt Augustin 1991, pp. 71-97.
  14. ^ Report on the award ceremony: Jürgen Frölich : Liberalismus und Europa. 4. Rastatt day on the history of liberalism. In: Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung 4 (1992), pp. 229-233.
  15. ^ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover , phil. Dissertation 1995, published in Hahnschen Buchhandlung, Hanover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-5835-3 .
  16. ↑ Publication on the history of liberalism and the Paulskirchen left. Science Information Service , accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  17. ^ Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg - personal details 11/99. Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | Press office, accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Dr. Heide-Marie Lauterer received a waiter's award. Science Information Service , accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Personnel October 2001. Science Information Service , accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  20. ↑ An excellent biography of a Democrat. Jena habilitation leads to professorship and now also to liberalism prize. Science Information Service , accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Jürgen Frölich : Laudation to Frank Möller and Manuel Borutta, winners of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnis-Preis 2005. (PDF; 46.4 kB) Ruhr-Universität Bochum | Historical Institute | Junior Professorship in Cultural History of the Mediterranean, archived from the original on December 10, 2017 ; accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Jena historian receives Wolf Erich Kellner Prize. Excellent biography of Heinrich von Gagern. Science Information Service , accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  23. ^ Heinrich von Gagern. Charisma and character. In: Frank Möller (Hrsg.): Charismatic leaders of the German nation. Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-486-56717-5 , pp. 43-62.
  24. ↑ Arndt Kremer, Ph.D. Researchgate , accessed November 5, 2018 .
  25. ^ University of Cologne , phil. Diss. 2005, published under the title: German Jews - German Language. Jewish and anti-Jewish language concepts and conflicts 1893–1933. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, ISBN 3-11-019603-4 .
  26. ↑ Wolf Erich Kellner Memorial Prize for Heuss Briefe Edition by Dr. Elke Seefried. Science Information Service , accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Dr. des. Klara Deecke becomes the new archive manager in Pforzheim. City of Pforzheim | Press office, accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  28. ↑ Dr. Marko Kreutzmann. Historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  29. ↑ On the power of liberal thinking. Historian from the University of Jena is awarded the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize 2012. Science Information Service , accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  30. ↑ Dominik Geppert : Laudation on the award of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize 2013 to Mark Schweda. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom | Archives of Liberalism, accessed November 5, 2018 .
  31. ↑ Inka Le-Huu. Wallstein Verlag | Authors, accessed November 5, 2018 .
  32. ↑ Award ceremony for IGDJ employee. Research award of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung goes to Inka Le-Huu. Institute for the History of the German Jews , accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  33. ↑ Excellent habilitation thesis. Dr. Henning Türk has been awarded the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Prize of the "Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom". University of Duisburg-Essen | CAMPUS: AKTUELL, accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  34. ↑ Dr. Franziska Meifort. Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg | Institute for History | Department of History of the 19th and 20th centuries Century, Retrieved November 5, 2018 .
  35. ↑ Historian awarded for doctorate. Dahrendorf biography by Franziska Meifort is to be published as a book in 2017. Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg | Press service, accessed November 5, 2018 .
  36. ↑ Fabian Rausch, Ph.D. Academia.edu , accessed November 5, 2018 .
  37. ↑ Fabian Rausch was awarded the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize on November 8th (2016). Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg | Historical seminar | Chair of Modern and Contemporary History of Western Europe, accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  38. ^ Author profile of Limbach at the publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht .
  39. ↑ PD Dr. Matthias Oppermann. University of Potsdam | Historical Institute | Further professors, accessed on November 5, 2018 . Website at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . Retrieved March 28, 2019.
  40. ↑ Meier's website at the University of Passau . Retrieved November 15, 2019.
  41. ↑ Ewald Grothe: Wolf Erich Kellner Prize 2019 goes to Desiderius Meier , Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, November 19, 2019. Accessed February 3, 2020.
  42. ↑ Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Preis - WEK Memorial Foundation. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom | Archives of Liberalism, accessed November 5, 2018 .
  43. ↑ Dr. Susanne Schimanski. Chinese Language & Culture, accessed November 5, 2018 .
  44. ↑ Farewell to Dr. Bush. FDP district association Hamburg-Altona, accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  45. ↑ Thomas Siekermann. FDP parliamentary group Region Hannover, accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  46. ↑ Karl Zissel. FDP district association Marburg-Biedenkopf, accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  47. ↑ Medieval Prize. Philipps University of Marburg | Department of History and Cultural Studies | Institute for Medieval History, accessed November 5, 2018 .