Konrad Adenauer Prize
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The Konrad Adenauer Prize is an award that was infrequently awarded by the Germany Foundation
, an organisation associated with the Christian Democratic Union
, from 1967 to 2001. It was named after statesman and former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
.
Germany Foundation
The Germany Foundation was a German organisation associated with the Christian Democratic Union, that existed from 1966 to 2007. It was founded in Rosenheim in Bavaria and incorporated in 1967. The organisation was founded by author Kurt Ziesel after a visit to Konrad Adenauer. From 1967 to 2001...
, an organisation associated with the Christian Democratic Union
Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...
, from 1967 to 2001. It was named after statesman and former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was a German statesman. He was the chancellor of the West Germany from 1949 to 1963. He is widely recognised as a person who led his country from the ruins of World War II to a powerful and prosperous nation that had forged close relations with old enemies France,...
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List of prize winners
- 1967 Armin MohlerArmin MohlerArmin Mohler was a Swiss-born far right political writer and philosopher associated with the Neue Rechte movement.-Life:Born in Basel, Mohler studied at the University of Basel where for a time he supported communism...
(journalism) - 1967 Bernt von Heiseler (literaturee)
- 1967 Ludwig Freund (science)
- 1968 Frank ThiessFrank ThiessFrank Thiess was a German writer.-Biography:Born in Eluisenstein, Russian Livonia , Thiess grew up in Berlin, where his family moved after Russia had annexed Livonia. He worked as a journalist for four years until he was enlisted into the German army in World War I...
(literaturee) - 1968 Emil Franzel (journalism)
- 1968 Wilhelm StählinWilhelm StählinWilhelm Stählin was a German Lutheran theologian, bishop, preacher and one of the major initiators of the Liturgical Movement in German Protestantism in the 20th Century....
(science) - 1969 Edzard Schaper (literature)
- 1969 Hans-Joachim Schoeps (science)
- 1970 Pascual JordanPascual Jordan-Further reading:...
(science) - 1971 Zenta MauriņaZenta MaurinaZenta Mauriņa , was a writer, essayist with a degree in philology . She was married to the EVP researcher Konstantin Raudive.-References:...
(literature) - 1971 William S. Schlamm (journalism)
- 1972 Richard Nikolaus Graf von Coudenhove-Kalergi
- 1975 Gerhard LöwenthalGerhard LöwenthalGerhard Löwenthal was a prominent German journalist, human rights activist and author. He presented the ZDF-Magazin, a news magazine of ZDF which highlighted human rights abuses in communist-ruled Eastern Europe, from 1969 to 1987...
(journalism) - 1975 Karl SteinbuchKarl SteinbuchDr. Karl W. Steinbuch was a German computer scientist, cyberneticist, and electrical engineer. He is one of the pioneers of the German computer science, as well as with his Lernmatrix an early pioneer of artificial neural networks...
(science) - 1977 Hans HabeHans HabeJanos Békessy, better known under his pen name Hans Habe was an Austrian writer and newspaper publisher...
(literature) - 1977 Helmut SchelskyHelmut SchelskyHelmut Schelsky, , was a German sociologist, the most influential in post-World War II Germany, well into the 1970s.-Biography:...
(science) - 1977 Otto von HabsburgOtto von HabsburgOtto von Habsburg , also known by his royal name as Archduke Otto of Austria, was the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in 1918, a realm which comprised modern-day Austria, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,...
(journalism) - 1979 Christa Meves (journalism)
- 1980 Lucius D. ClayLucius D. ClayGeneral Lucius Dubignon Clay was an American officer and military governor of the United States Army known for his administration of Germany immediately after World War II. Clay was deputy to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1945; deputy military governor, Germany 1946; commander in chief, U.S....
- 1981 Axel Cäsar Springer (journalism)
- 1983 Gertrud Fussenegger (literature) (von ihr abgelehnt)
- 1984 Herbert Kremp (journalism)
- 1986 Jean-François RevelJean-François RevelJean-François Revel was a French politician, journalist, author, prolific philosopher and member of the Académie française from June 1998...
(science) - 1986 Gerd-Klaus Kaltenbrunner (literature)
- 1988 Gertrud Höhler (literature)
- 1990 Alfred DreggerAlfred DreggerAlfred Dregger was a German politician and a leader of the Christian Democratic Union .Dregger was born in Münster. After graduating from a school in Werl, he entered the German Wehrmacht in 1939...
(Konrad Adenauer Freedom Prize) - 1992 Gabriele Wohmann (literature)
- 1992 Michael WolffsohnMichael WolffsohnMichael Wolffsohn is an Israeli-born German historian. Wolffsohn was born in Tel Aviv, in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine and today is Israel. His parents were German Jews who fled in 1939....
(science) - 1994 Helmut KohlHelmut KohlHelmut Josef Michael Kohl is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1973 to 1998...
(Konrad Adenauer Freedom Prize) - 1996 Lutz RathenowLutz RathenowLutz Rathenow is a dissident German writer and poet who was haunted by the Secret Police until the German reunification...
(literature) - 1996 Hans-Peter Schwarz (science)
- 1996 Heinz Klaus Mertes (journalism)
- 1998 Wolfgang SchäubleWolfgang SchäubleWolfgang Schäuble is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union , currently serving as the Federal Minister of Finance in the Second Cabinet Merkel....
(Konrad Adenauer Freedom Prize) - 2000 Ernst NolteErnst NolteErnst Nolte is a German historian and philosopher. Nolte’s major interest is the comparative studies of Fascism and Communism. He is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught from 1973 to 1991. He was previously a Professor at the University of Marburg...
(science) - 2000 Otfried PreußlerOtfried PreußlerOtfried Preußler is a German children's books author. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill ....
(literature) - 2001 Peter MaffayPeter MaffayPeter Alexander Makkay better known as Peter Maffay is a German musician.- Biography :Born in Brasov, Romania, the son of a German , he was 14 when his family relocated to his parents' Germany in 1963. In the same year, he started his first band, The Dukes...
(culture)