Wolfram Engels Prize
The Wolfram Engels Prize - Mensch und Markt , initiated and donated by the informedia Foundation, is awarded by the Marktwirtschaft Foundation together with the Kronberger Kreis to people from the entrepreneurial, scientific and political fields for contributions to the further development of the free social order and is with a Prize money in the amount of 15,000 euros. The award was initiated in 1998 by the publisher Klaus Kunkel in line with the vision of the economist and publicist Wolfram Engels of “a society whose members are conscious of their internal and external freedom of responsibility for their own lives, for the community and for future generations are."
Award winners
- 1998: Rüdiger Soltwedel , university lecturer and journalist, Institute for World Economy and Gunnar Uldall , economic policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
- 1999: Peer Ederer and Phillip Schuller, authors of the non-fiction book Annual Report Deutschland AG
- 2001: Mario Monti , EU Commissioner
- 2003: Tommy G. Thompson , US Secretary of Health
- 2007: Notker Wolf , Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Order
- 2014: Jens Weidmann , President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
Web links
- Wolfram Engels Prize on the website of the Market Economy Foundation
- Publication: 25 Years of the Market Economy Foundation and Kronberger Kreis / Wolfram Engels Prize , Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-89015-105-1 (PDF file; 6.17 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ P. Ederer, P. Schuller: Annual Report Germany AG. Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag 1999, ISBN 3-7910-1556-7
- ↑ Laudation from Bundestag President Norbert Lammert on Notker Wolf ( 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. , Bundestag
- ^ Laudation from Theo Siegert to Jens Weidmann
- ^ Reply from Jens Weidmann
