Our scientist in the committee of the ‘Award for special merits for the development of German-Polish relations’
Prof. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, an employee of the Historical Institute and director of the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies at our University, was nominated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, as a member of the Committee for the ‘Prize for special merits for the development of Polish-German relations’.
The Polish-German Prize was established by the Polish-German Treaty of Good Neighbourship and Friendly Cooperation in 1991 for special contributions to the development of Polish-German relations.
The award is granted to Polish and German individuals or institutions. Previous recipients of the award include Willy Brandt (posthumously), former foreign ministers and fathers of the prize, Krzysztof Skubiszewski and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, as well as Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Countess Marion von Dönhoff, the European University Viadrina, the GFPS Scientific and Cultural Association in Central and Eastern Europe and in 2006 the committee awarded one prize to Bishop Alfons Nossol of Opole. The last time the award was presented posthumously to prof. Władysław Bartoszewski was in 2015.
The Polish-German Award, presented by the heads of Polish and German diplomacy, is the most important award given in Polish-German relations. The award committee comprises five personalities each from Poland and Germany. The next meeting of the Committee is scheduled for 19 September.
