Who We Are
Questioning history
Transparency as a guiding principle
The Hamburg businessman Alfred Toepfer established the F.V.S. Foundation in 1931; after his death in 1993, it was named after its founder. The inclusion of the founder's name in the name of the foundation, as requested by the family, is not understood today as an undifferentiated show of respect, but as an act of transparency regarding the origin of the foundation's assets. Due to its long history, the Foundation feels a special responsibility to research its work and the cultural, political and business activities of Alfred Toepfer and to make them transparent to the public. For scientific research on the history of Alfred Toepfer, his foundations and enterprises, the Toepfer Foundation makes resources available upon request, the allocation of which is subject to independent review.
The state of research as well as the reflection on the evaluation and the consequences of the research results is not a completed process. Those working for the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S. today and many of its companions are in continuous reflection on this. Individual third parties also ask the Foundation questions about Alfred Toepfer's biography, about the history of the Foundation and - occasionally - about the independence of the process of historical reappraisal. The Foundation meets these questions with openness, supports research interests with access to historical sources, and strives to establish a high degree of transparency regarding open questions and controversial assessments. It is our urgent concern to neither relativize nor downplay the activities of the founder and to enable all interested parties to learn about the history and make their own assessments.
As a starting point for the further work of the Toepfer Foundation, it first sees the need to explicitly and transparently acknowledge various facts ascertained in the course of scientific research and to point them out to potential cooperation partners. These include irritating facts about Toepfer's support for individual objectives, persons and organizations of the National Socialist regime as well as about personnel continuities in the post-war period.
In this context, particular mention should be made of:
his sympathy and active support for the "Volkstumspolitik" of the "Third Reich", especially with regard to the German minorities "at the borders of the Reich", as well as his support for German-national activities in Alsace
his intensive efforts to establish contacts with individual leading representatives of the Nazi regime, including Rudolf Hess, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, and various other functionaries
his cooperation with - and support for - cultural activities and priorities of the Nazi regime, in particular by organizing cultural award activities in conformity with the regime, as well as scholarships related thereto
his support for organizations that were either closely associated with the Nazi regime or even integral to it, such as the VDA, to which Toepfer made the Kalkhorst estate of the F.V.S. Foundation available as a "Reichsführer school
his role as a Wehrmacht officer in the Abwehr from 1940 to 1945, here in particular his economic efforts to mobilize war-essential funds for Germany in France in 1943/1944
individual transactions of subsidiaries of the Toepfer Group in occupied Poland during the Second World War, which supplied food and building materials to the Lodz ghetto administration. The assumption published by the historian Dr. Christian Gerlach in the course of the historical reappraisal of the foundation's history, that "slaked lime" delivered in this context was used to cover mass graves of people murdered in the ghetto, has in the meantime been proven incorrect by further research
the hiring - and thus support - of some high-ranking former functionaries or supporters of the Nazi regime in its undertakings after the end of the war, some of whom bore significant responsibility for the organization and implementation of the Holocaust in Eastern or Southeastern Europe, including Edmund Veesenmayer, Kurt Haller, Hans Joachim Riecke
a long-standing cooperation and working relationship in his foundation's work with other officials and scholars who in various forms or through various activities supported or justified the Nazi regime, its military aggressions as well as its cruel racism during the time of the "Third Reich," such as Konrad Henlein, Gustav Adolf Rein, Friedrich Metz, Johann Friedrich Blunck or Georg Rauschning
his support for or toleration of awards made by his foundations after World War II to people who either actively supported or justified the Nazi regime during the time of the "Third Reich."
These scientific findings are all the more irritating for the Foundation and those working there today because after the Second World War, Toepfer, like many of his generation, never publicly addressed his own entanglements during this period or the post-war period or even admitted his own guilt or personal mistakes. Rather, Toepfer on various occasions denied his own involvement and presented aspects of his biography, even to his closest companions, as if he had been an opponent of the regime, or at least with a critical personal distance.
An unrestricted acknowledgement of the aforementioned facts and an openness to new scientific research findings are therefore particularly important prerequisites for the Foundation's work today.
References to Toepfer's numerous and comprehensive merits as a benefactor and patron in the post-war period as well as the fact that, according to the findings of the commission, Toepfer was neither a member of the National Socialist party nor involved in war crimes or the active persecution of individual sections of the population should not and cannot relativize these facts. At the same time, it remains the task of the Foundation to promote a qualified and differentiated approach to history.
In addition to this effort to research and acknowledge the results, the Foundation today primarily assumes responsibility for history through its programmatic work. For example, the Toepfer Foundation has moved away from the earlier award program based on the notion of "cultural spaces" and has instead focused its resources on supporting artists and scholars who stand for cross-border exchange, intercultural encounter, and understanding. Promoting dialogue, encouraging exchange, and strengthening tolerance are core concerns of the foundation's work today. This applies to the Europe-wide scholarship activities, to the program work as well as to the prizes, with which in recent years people have repeatedly been honored for their persistent, courageous, imaginative and professionally outstanding approach to history and their commitment to tolerance, understanding and cultural diversity.
History of the founder and the institution
Alfred Toepfer was born in 1894. In the 1920s, he built up a trading company for agricultural products with great success, and in 1931 transferred its profits to the F. V. S., named presumably after the Prussian reformer and Baron vom Stein. His political ideas at this time were characterized in particular by the cultivation of foreign Germanism, the promotion of a youth movement close to nature, and economic liberality.
Toepfer did not become an enthusiastic supporter of National Socialism after 1933. In many details, however, Toepfer's support for individual goals, persons and organizations of the National Socialist regime can be proven, as is stated in the publications. In 1938, he withdrew from the company due to problems with the financial administration, and was also briefly imprisoned for this reason.
From 1940, Toepfer served in the Wehrmacht, initially in the Abwehr, later in foreign exchange procurement. After the war, he was initially interned, but in the subsequent denazification proceedings he was classified as "not incriminated" and resumed entrepreneurial and philanthropic work.
Toepfer founded the F.V.S. zu Hamburg Foundation on December 5, 1931, and played a key role in shaping the foundation's fortunes until his death in 1993.
- Further information on the life of Alfred Toepfer
Detailed chronicle of the life of the founder:
A critical account of Alfred Toepfer's life and work can be found in the biography written by Jan Zimmermann, published in the series "Hamburger Köpfe" (2008).
Due to its history dating back to 1931, the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S. has a special responsibility to research the cultural, business and political activities of Alfred Toepfer and his foundations. The reappraisal of the history of the foundations from their beginnings to 1945 by a scientific commission (published in 2000) and the reappraisal of the history of individual foundation awards since the 1950s (published in 2003) laid a foundation for this. A comprehensive examination of the debate about Toepfer's role during the Nazi period as well as the postwar period, which provides an overview of various positions and lines of discussion, can be found in the book by Richard J. Evans The Third Reich in History and Memory (Oxford University Press, 2015). In the chapter "The Fellow Traveller" (pages 206 to 238), Evans, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, not only describes his encounters with Alfred Toepfer and his foundations, but also deals extensively with the controversy surrounding foundation history.
- "The fellow traveller" (Prof. Richard J. Evans, Oxford University Press, 2015)
- "Foundation pasts that do not fade away" (Ingmar Ahl und Ansgar Wimmer, text in German only)
The debates on the history of the foundation
The history of the F.V.S. Foundation and the biographical stages of the founder Alfred Toepfer remain the subject of academic research and critical monitoring of the Foundation's activities. We make the debates on the history of the foundation public on this page. We are open to and grateful for further suggestions on how to deal responsibly with our history.
The history of the foundation and the work of Alfred Toepfer have so far been expertly researched by a manageable number of historians. The conclusions drawn from the research results remain the subject of debate among historians, as do the approaches to individual research subjects. Two levels in particular play a role in these debates: individual aspects of content, which are assessed differently by researchers. Under methodological aspects, the question of the independence of the research commission is repeatedly brought into the field. Both aspects play a role in the publications and interventions of Dr. Michael Fahlbusch, a geographer researching in the field of history of science, and Lionel Boissou, a publicist interested in history. In addition, the political scientist Dr. Michael Pinto-Duschinsky conducted research on Alfred Toepfer and his philanthropic and entrepreneurial activities in Great Britain in 2010. Pinto-Duschinsky was particularly concerned with whether and to what extent Toepfer still maintained contact with National Socialist decision-makers after 1945 and employed such persons in his companies.
The Foundation supports research and other serious research projects to the best of its ability by providing access to archives and by arranging preliminary research. With this in mind and in order to enable further scientific research, the Carl Toepfer Foundation transferred its Alfred Toepfer Archive to the independent Hanseatic Business Archives Foundation in spring 2010.
- Chronological listing of the debates about the history of the foundation
2005
Prof. Georg Kreis on the ongoing controversy about the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S.
The rejection of the Hansa Goethe Prize by Ariane Mnouchkine in 2005 prompted the Swiss historian Georg Kreis to look again at the accusations that have been made since the early 1990s against the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S. with reference to Alfred Toepfer's biography and the history of his foundation's activities. The article from 2005 provides a fundamental insight into the genesis of these accusations, and Georg Kreis also classifies the ongoing criticism by Lionel Boissou and Gérad Loiseaux. The result of his research was initially intended for publication in a volume containing essays by Georg Kreis and was kindly made available to us for documentation.2008
Research Results and Positioning by Boissou and Fahlbusch
In the "Handbuch der völkischen Wissenschaft", Ingo Haar and Michael Fahlbusch (eds.), K.G. Saur Verlag, Munich 2008, Lionel Boissou published an extensive article on the "Stiftung FVS Hamburg und Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Stiftung Vaduz". The article takes a positioning of Alfred Toepfer and his foundations in the context of National Socialist politics. A counterstatement distributed by the publisher is enclosed with the handbook on the factually incorrect statements regarding the present of the foundation's work. The historians Georg Kreis and Hans Mommsen comment on the article:Michael Fahlbusch commented on the research of Kreis and Mommsen in his essay "Wissenschaft und Politikberatung - Zur Kontroverse über die Volkstumsforschung im Dritten Reich," published in: Halbjahresschrift für südosteuropäische Geschichte, Literatur und Politik, ed. by J. Böhm, H 2, 2008, pp. 60-73.
Debate on the promotion of OPUS XXI
OPUS XXI is a Franco-German academy for contemporary chamber music that took place in La Chartreuse, Avignon. It was organized by the Conservatoire National supérieur musique et danse in Lyon, the Hochschule für Musik und Theater and the Landesmusikrat Hamburg. Due to the long-standing cooperation with the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S. joined the circle of supporters and sponsors in 2008 with a small financial support. This sponsorship was the subject of agitation and press releases by Gérard Loiseaux to organizers and sponsors, which initially resulted in a rejection of the sponsorship as well as an article in the French regional newspaper 'Midi Libre' (29.8.08).The challenges as well as the rebuttals in this debate are documented in detail here:
An article in the taz Nord of December 4, 2008, also deals with the matter:
Debate in taz Nord
The Opus XXI case was the starting point for the taz Nord to take a closer look at the foundation's transparent handling of its past: Article in taz Nord (4. 12.08.). In response to this publication, Michael Fahlbusch presented his position to the taz in an interview: taz Nord (1/14/09). The Chairman of the Board, Ansgar Wimmer, responded to Fahlbusch's statements, also in an interview with taz Nord (Jan. 21, 2009).
2010
British political scientist presents facts about the Foundation's history as a newly uncovered scandal, using research results that have already been published by the Foundation for ten years.
In an article titled The Prize Lies of a Nazi Tycoon for the April 2010 issue of the British magazine "Standpoint Magazine," political scientist Dr. Michael Pinto-Duschinsky critically and with considerable reproaches dealt not only with the past of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S. and its founder, but also with its current handling of this history. Pinto-Duschinsky, who was supported in his research by the Foundation and, contrary to his claims, was granted unrestricted access to the archives, presented a large number of facts as a scandal he had uncovered, which the Foundation had already had researched and published ten years ago as part of its historical reappraisal. In his contribution, he quoted current Foundation representatives out of context, presented the effort to come to terms with the past incompletely, and drew a rather grotesque distorted picture of a non-profit institution that supposedly still closes its eyes to its own history. An overview of the run-up to the discussion since 2008, the Foundation's position, and further information on Pinto-Duschinsky's approach can be read here.
One of the unnamed sources of the facts on the history of the foundation presented as new was the biography "Alfred Toepfer" by Dr. Jan Zimmermann published in 2008 (ed. by the ZEIT Foundation in the series Hamburger Köpfe, Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2008). On his own initiative and with the support of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S., Dr. Jan Zimmermann had demonstrated in a precise analysis which findings of Pinto-Duschinsky are actually new and to what extent the publication Pinto-Duschinsky is based on already published research of third parties:
Regrettably, Pinto-Duschinsky disclosed the extensive use of third-party research results funded by the Foundation only to a very limited extent. Notwithstanding this, the Foundation also confronted the new research findings and the criticism associated with them.
For many years, the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S. has emphasized the need for a wholehearted examination of the past and accepted responsibility for its founder's involvement in the National Socialist era. The Foundation has clearly distanced itself from Toepfer's entanglements as well as from his support for actors of the regime in the postwar period and has unreservedly deplored them. Today, not only in its programmatic work but also in its efforts to come to terms with history, the Foundation is far from whitewashing, obfuscating, or justifying any aspect of its history or its founder. Unfortunately, the accompanying commentary by the editor of "Standpoint Magazine" as well as a subsequent commentary in the "Sunday Times" of March 28, 2010 were also characterized by profound ignorance of the Foundation's work and orientation today. Today, the foundation informs its current awardees and scholarship holders about the controversies surrounding its past on its own initiative and comprehensively, and opposes any debate in this regard.
A differentiated and factual discussion of the topic was published in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" in the issue of April 7, 2010 under the title Good Money, Dark Intentions. Furthermore, a report appeared in the Oxford student newspaper "Cherwell" on April 30, 2010. On June 10, 2010, in a commentary How historians remove stains for the London-based "Jewish Chronicle," Pinto-Duschinsky repeated and intensified his accusations against the Foundation and extended them with serious allegations to historiographical research at Oxford University. The Foundation commented on this to the London weekly under the headline "Bordering on the absurd."
In addition, on July 2, 2010, the Jewish Chronicle published a letter to the editor by Oxford historians Prof. Jane Caplan and Dr. Nicholas Stargardt, under the title "History Rebuttal," which is critical of the accusations made by Pinto-Duschinsky against Oxford University:
Finally, in June 2010, "Oxford Magazine" published an opinion piece by Oxford historian Prof. Dr. Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann:
In preparation for a discussion with representatives of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Foundation had finally submitted a comprehensive statement in English "To be unambiguously clear", in which it took a stand on its own history, but also on the accusations of Dr. Pinto-Duschinsky, his "research" and the nature of his approach. In the interest of transparency, this statement is published on the Foundation's website: the very extensive appendices to it, if not already documented on this page, can be viewed on request in the archives of the Hanseatic Economic Archives. Regrettably, Pinto-Duschinsky had refused to participate in the discussion initiated by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the scholarly contribution announced by him in the DeGruyter Verlag has also been withdrawn by the editors.
Instead, a version of the article translated and footnoted by Michael Fahlbusch was published under the title "Der Kampf um Geschichte" ("The Struggle for History") at the German Historians' Day in September 2010 in the anthology "Völkische Wissenschaften und Politikberatung im 20. Jahrhundert" ("Ethnic Science and Political Consultation in the 20th Century") (ed. by Ingo Haar and Michael Fahlbusch, Schöningh Verlag, 2010). This contribution, too, showed a multitude of methodological and factual errors, some of them serious, and painted a picture of the Foundation's current position that was largely removed from reality. This was all the more regrettable because the Foundation agreed with the editors of the anthology on the continuing need for a qualified and complete scholarly reappraisal of its history and the biography of Alfred Toepfer. The editors presented themselves and the anthology at a public event on October 11, 2010 at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Basel and presented further theses on what they saw as a failed historical reappraisal.
On November 26, 2010, the University of Oxford finally decided to continue its cooperation with the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S. after almost a year of thorough examination.
On March 10, 2011, a comprehensive analysis by the renowned British historian Richard J. Evans on the debate about the continuation of the Hanseatic Scholarships was published in "Times Higher Education," a supplement of the British daily newspaper "The Times."
In the course of the 2010 debate, the foundation is making further resources available to enable independent scholarly study of its history and that of its founder. Since then, for example, scholars wishing to conduct research on this topic in the holdings of the Hanseatic Economic Archive or other archives have had the opportunity to apply informally for archive research funding. A committee of experts independent of the foundation decides on the applications.
2010, 2012 and 2013
Comments on the awarding of the KAIROS Prize
For the sake of transparency and completeness, the opportunity is given here to take note of the comments by Loiseaux and Fahlbusch on the awarding of the 2010 KAIROS Prize to the Icelandic writer and filmmaker Andri Snaer Magnason, as well as Loiseaux's letter to the 2012 KAIROS Prize winner, Katell Gélébart, and Fahlbusch's publication on the occasion of the awarding of the 2012 and 2013 KAIROS Prize. Both unfortunately close their minds to any factual or scientifically based discussion on the topic, which has been repeatedly offered to them by the Foundation. They operate in part with deliberate misstatements, pass off research findings presented and published by the Foundation as their own research results, and endeavor in a polemical and wholly unobjective manner to scandalize the Foundation's current involvement.2013
Publications by Prof. Dirk Hoeges and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Reulecke
In the context of his book "Die Menschenrechte und ihre Feinde" (Human Rights and their Enemies), published in February 2013, Dirk Hoeges, Professor of Romance Philology and Cultural Studies at the University of Hanover, deals with Alfred Toepfer and the F.V.S. Foundation (cf. Dirk Hoeges, Die Menschenrechte und ihre Feinde - Deutsche Profile zwischen Kaiserreich und Bundesrepublik, machiavelli edition, Cologne 2013, pp. 153-217.).Also in spring 2013, an article on Alfred Toepfer by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Reulecke appeared in the anthology Jugendbewegt geprägt (cf. Barbara Stambolis, ed., Jugendbewegt geprägt. Essays on autobiographical texts by Werner Heisenberg, Robert Jungk and many others, V&R unipress, pp. 701-717.).
2014
Publication by Wigbert Benz
The study published by Karlsruhe historian Wigbert Benz on the war criminal and state secretary in the Nazi Ministry of Agriculture, Hans-Joachim Riecke, examines his entanglements during the Nazi era and provides insight into his relations with Alfred Toepfer's agricultural trading company and foundation. After World War 2, Riecke was appointed by Toepfer to head his company's economics department. From 1958 to 1974, he was also a member of the board of the foundation established by Toepfer. In the spirit of transparency in dealing with the history of our foundation and its founder, we refer to this important publication.2015
Publication by Prof. Richard J. Evans
In March 2015, Richard J. Evans, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, published the book The Third Reich in History and Memory (Oxford University Press, 2015). In the chapter "The Fellow Traveller" (pp. 206-238), Evans not only describes his encounters with Alfred Toepfer and his foundations, but also deals extensively with the controversy surrounding foundation history:Inquiry from the German-French online publication "Eurojournaliste
In December 2014, the editor of the German-French online publication "Eurojournaliste", Mr. Kai Littmann, contacted the Foundation with reference to the publications of Prof. Hoeges. Since he is planning a short series of articles on Alfred Toepfer against this background, he has some questions, asks the Foundation for additional information and wants to give the Foundation the opportunity to comment. In the following, the Foundation provided him with a variety of information in a letter dated December 16, 2014, as requested:On February 25, 2015, Mr. Littmann sent the Foundation a comprehensive list of questions, which the Foundation answered on April 8, 2015. In the interest of full transparency, Mr. Littmann's questions and all answers are reproduced here in full:
2016
In the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft (Jg. 64 (2016), Heft 3, pp. 213-234), the historian Karl Heinz Roth and the Germanist Ulf-Thomas Lesle publish under the title "Völkische Netzwerke: Alfred Toepfer und das Stiftungsunternehmen ACT/F.V.S." (Ethnic Networks: Alfred Toepfer and the ACT/F.V.S. Foundation) a summary of the research on Toepfer available so far from their point of view. Both had already published in 1999 (Roth, Karl Heinz: Alfred Toepfer, Großkaufmann, Kulturimperialist und Kriegstreiber. Ein Dokument aus dem Jahr 1937. In: 1999. Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts 14 (1999), H. 2, S. 110-129) and 2005 (Lesle, Ulf-Thomas: Alfred Toepfer. Merchant and Patron. In: Zukunft, Heimat, Niedersachsen: 100 Jahre Niedersächsischer Heimatbund. Ed. by the Niedersächsischer Heimatbund. Delmenhorst 2005, pp. 143-158.) dealt with Toepfer and the work of his foundations in publications. They describe their contribution as a "balance sheet at the conclusion of a research project begun in 1993" and critically evaluate the foundation's current handling of its own history in terms of historical policy.
Perspectives
The Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S.'s commitment to transparency in its own history is a central component of its activities. Space is given to this in prominent places at public events and in individual conversations during initial contact with potential partners or with award winners of the foundation.
Equally important to the Foundation is a focus on the commitment of other actors involved in coming to terms with the history of their institutions under National Socialism. Eckart Krause and Dr. Rainer Nicolaysen, for example, received the Max Brauer Award 2008 for their extraordinary commitment to reappraising the history of the University of Hamburg.
The historical reappraisal of National Socialism is also given special attention in decisions on funding for individual research papers and projects. In particular, the funding of a scientific investigation into the role of Adolf Rein as Rector of the University of Hamburg was a matter of concern to the Foundation, as Rein was also a member of the F.V.S. Foundation's Board of Trustees. See: Arndt Goede " Adolf Rein and the `Idea of the Political University'," Hamburger Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin/Hamburg 2008.
Furthermore, you will find here a compilation of those sponsored works from the Foundation's extensive sponsorship program that took the reappraisal of National Socialism as their theme:
Publications on the scientific reappraisal of the foundation's history
The history of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S. and its founder is the subject of various scientific studies and public debate.
The following publications illuminate Alfred Toepfer's work from different perspectives. With the exception of the biography of Alfred Toepfer by Jan Zimmermann and the history of the Shakespeare Prize by Jürgen Schlaeger, they were published by Christians Verlag. Since the publishing house has meanwhile ceased its activities, they are unfortunately only available in limited numbers in bookstores, but can be consulted in many public libraries. If interested, single copies can also be obtained from the Toepfer Foundation against a prepaid envelope:
- Publications
Alfred Toepfer
von Jan Zimmermann. Hgg. v. der ZEIT-Stiftung in der Reihe Hamburger Köpfe
Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2008
ISBN: 978-3-8319-0295-8, 160 Seiten mit 35 Abbildungen
Preis: 14.90 EURAlfred Toepfer. Stifter und Kaufmann. Bausteine einer Biographie – Kritische Bestandsaufnahme
Hgg. v. Georg Kreis (Basel), Gerd Krumeich (Düsseldorf), Henri Menudier (Paris), Hans Mommsen (Bochum) und Arnold Sywottek † (Hamburg)
Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 2000
Gebunden, 480 Seiten, ISBN 3-7672-1373-7, 35,- Euro (vergriffen)
Erhältlich als Reprint, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-8262-2004-8, € 21,60Die Kulturpreise der Stiftung F.V.S. 1935-1945. Darstellung und Dokumentation
von Jan Zimmermann, in der Schriftenreihe „Akzente für Europa“
Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 2000
Gebunden, 952 Seiten, ISBN 3-7672-1374-5, 19,80 EuroShakespeare Prize 1937-2006
von Jürgen Schlaeger
WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2013
340 Seiten, ISBN 978-3-86821-450-5Brücken nach Osteuropa. Geschichte und Bedeutung des Herder-Preises 1964-2000
von Georg Kastner, in der Schriftenreihe „Akzente für Europa“
Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 2003
Gebunden, 450 Seiten, ISBN 3-7672-1400-8, 15,- EuroDenkmalpflege in Europa. Der Europa-Preis für Denkmalpflege der Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S.
von Alois Machatschek, in der Schriftenreihe „Akzente für Europa“
Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 2001
Gebunden, mit zahlr. farbigen und schwarz-weißen Abb., 255 Seiten, ISBN3-7672-1333-8, 22,- Euro.Der Hansische Goethe-Preis 1949 – 1999
von Susanne Hornfeck, in der Schriftenreihe „Akzente für Europa“
Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 1999
Broschur, 184 Seiten, ISBN 3-9806751-1-4, 14,80 EuroDer Joost-van-den-Vondel-Preis 1960-2000
von Georg Kauffmann, in der Schriftenreihe „Akzente für Europa“
Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 2002
Broschur, ca. 180 Seiten, ISBN 3-7672-1371-0, 14,80 EuroDer Montaigne-Preis 1986-2000
von Eva Mellinger und Frank Baasner, in der Schriftenreihe „Akzente für Europa“
Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 2003
Broschur, 207 Seiten, ISBN 3-7672-1402-4, 14,80 EuroDie Geschichte des Straßburg-Preises 1963-1996
von Dieter Tiemann, in der Schriftenreihe „Akzente für Europa“
Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 2002
Broschur, 276 Seiten, ISBN 3-7672-1370-2, 14,80 EuroDie Niederdeutschen Preise der Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. 1955 bis 2000
von Heinz W. Pohl, in der Schriftenreihe „Akzente für Europa“
Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 2001
Broschur, 336 Seiten, ISBN 3-7672-1358-3, 22,- EuroIm Lichte des Nordens. Die Geschichte des Henrik-Steffens-Preises 1966-2003
von John Patrick Mikisch, in der Schriftenreihe „Akzente für Europa“
Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 2004
Broschur, 232 Seiten, ISBN 3-7672-1401-6, 15,00 EuroNahrung für Europa – Die Aufgabe der Landwirtschaft. Liebig-Preis und Thünen-Medaille: Eine Bilanz nach 50 Jahren
von Arnold Finck, in der Schriftenreihe „Akzente für Europa“
Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 1999
Broschur, 248 Seiten, ISBN 3-9806751-0-6, 14,80 EuroAusgezeichnete Architektur. Fritz-Schumacher-Preis 1950–2000 und Heinrich-Tessenow-Medaille 1963-2000
von Ulrich Höhns, in der Schriftenreihe „Akzente für Europa“
Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 2000
Gebunden, mit zahlr. farbigen und schwarz-weißen Abb., 200 Seiten, ISBN 3-7672-1381-8, 22,- Euro
Contact
Uta Gielke Program Management Culture Head of Communication
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