Erich Fromm Prize

The Erich Fromm Prize (German: Erich-Fromm-Preis) is a German prize bestowed upon people who have advanced Humanism through their scientific, social, sociopolitical or journalistic engagement. The prize is named after Erich Fromm, a Jewish German-American philosopher, psychoanalyst and psychologist.^[1] The prize is conferred yearly since 1995, and since 2006, it is endowed with 10,000 €.^[2][1]

The Erich Fromm Society (Erich-Fromm-Gesellschaft) elects a five-person jury, which decides on the prize winner. Its decision is made by simple majority and is not influenced by the Society, but it has to respect applications and recommendations.

Recipients

Source:^[3]

• 1995
  • Duchovný Parliament, Bratislava
• 1996
  • Sociopsychoanalytical Seminary of the University of Mexiko-City
  • University of Wrocław, Poland
  • Germanistic Division of the University of Pécs, Hungary
• 1997: No prize winner
• 1998
  • Rainer J. Kaus
  • Svante Lundgren
  • Martina Parge
• 1999
  • Jan M. Böhm
  • Claudia Hoock
• 2000
  • Kevin Anderson
  • Richard Quinney
  • Bruno Osuch
• 2001
  • Gerd Meyer
• 2002–2003: No prize winners
• 2004 William Wasson, Hamid Lechhab
• 2005: No prize winner
• 2006 Hans Leyendecker, Heribert Prantl
• 2007 Eugen Drewermann^[4], Konstantin Wecker^[4]
• 2008 Jakob von Uexküll
• 2009 Gerhart Baum
• 2010 Noam Chomsky^[5]
• 2011 Anne-Sophie Mutter^[4]
• 2012 Georg Schramm
• 2013 Gesine Schwan^[4]
• 2015 Götz Werner^[4]
• 2016 Christel und Rupert Neudeck
• 2017 John Neumeier
• 2018 Hartmut Rosa
• 2019 Daniel and Sabine Röder and Pulse of Europe
• 2020 Paul Mason
• 2021 Maja Göpel^[6][7]
• 2022 Ueli Mäder [de]^[8]
• 2023 Thomas Fuchs^[9]