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Hanns Seidel Foundation

Controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. 2012

    Historical controversy surrounding the Folk Music Prize

    Media reports revealed that the founders of the foundation’s Folk Music Prize, Maria and Max Wutz, had been National Socialists. HSS had reportedly become aware of the issue in 2001 but had not publicly disclosed it. The foundation ended the prize, commissioned an independent investigation by the Institute for Contemporary History, and redirected approximately 1.4 million euros of inherited funds toward Bavarian-Israeli youth exchanges and a memorial project at the former Mühldorfer Hart subcamp of Dachau.

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