Foundation goal

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Dedicated with delight and commitment.

We look forward to get into contact with you very much. If you have any questions we will be delighted to answer them.

Edith Adler-Büttner und Dr. Hermann Büttner

The ADLER BUETTNER FOUNDATION aims to support students’ musical university education as well as their preparation targeting a professional career as musician.

The sponsoring exclusively addresses students and scholars of the Karlsruhe University of Music. The foundation focuses on the piano but is not limited to it as teaching subject.

Founders

Encourage music at the highest level

Youth makes music – at the Karlsruhe University of Music accomplished at the highest level. This motivated Dr. Hermann Buettner, attorney-at-law at the Federal Court of Justice to pay particular attention to young pianists of this university and to initiate a piano contest for students in 1998. With the intention to sustainably secure the success of the well-established and thriving “Dr. Hermann Buettner Piano Contest” and to support additional projects of the university, Dr. Buettner and his wife Mrs Edith Adler-Buettner during their lifetime established the ADLER BUETTNER FOUNDATION in the form of an incorporated foundation in German civil law officially acknowledged as legal entity on July 8, 2016.
Both founders actively endorse the foundation – Mrs Adler-Buettner as creative consultant and idea provider, Dr. Buettner as university partner and foundation executive.

In 2002, October 23 Dr. Buettner was appointed Honorary Senator of the Karlsruhe University of Music. In his capacity as principal of the university Professor Hartmut Hoell is contributing to the success of the Foundation with dedicated support.

The foundation cooperates closely with the University of Music and continuously receives warm thanks that are a source of motivation for its commitment (see letter by principal Professor Hartmut Hoell).

Dr. Hermann Büttner

University Partner and Foundation Executive
Those abundantly blessed by their own fortunes should give something back to other people. I admire artistic talent in young people, an attribute I was not granted and I am deeply impressed by their excellent musical skills. They deserve personal and material support. This inspires me to a heartfelt devotion to the Karlsruhe University of Music and its highly gifted students.

Edith Adler-Büttner

Creative Consultant and Idea Provider
 
It is a pleasure for me to support my husband in his sponsoring of young musicians ideally as well as financially. The enthusiasm of young artists, their exceptional talent and their extraordinary commitment for their education motivate me to help them on their way to a successful future through our foundation.

Dr. Hermann Büttner

Hochschulpartner und Stiftungsmanager 
Those abundantly blessed by their own fortunes should give something back to other people. I admire artistic talent in young people, an attribute I was not granted and I am deeply impressed by their excellent musical skills. They deserve personal and material support. This inspires me to a heartfelt devotion to the Karlsruhe University of Music and its highly gifted students.

Edith Adler-Büttner

Ideengeberin und kreative Beraterin
It is a pleasure for me to support my husband in his sponsoring of young musicians ideally as well as financially. The enthusiasm of young artists, their exceptional talent and their extraordinary commitment for their education motivate me to help them on their way to a successful future through our foundation.

Statute

The statute is the binding set of regulations and determines all the activities of the foundation.
Key provision is the foundation goal as specified in paragraph 2 of the statute:

Foundation goal

The foundation goal is the sponsorship of art and culture.

The foundation goal is to be achieved in particular by sponsoring the musical education of all students and scholars of the Karlsruhe University of Music including career preparation through the organization of competitions and awarding prize money or scholarships, through granting subsidies for students’ expenditures participating in in-house university contests or external competitions or advanced training courses, through fellowship promotion concerts and reunions with alumni or with renowned professional musicians as well as through subsidies towards selected musical projects of the university. The foundation focuses on the piano but is not limited to it as teaching subject.

The goals do not have to be achieved simultaneously and in equal manner.

Institutions

The foundation body consists of the executive board including three representatives and its advisory council featuring five members. As its legal representative the executive board is responsible for the management of the foundation’s transactions. The advisory council provides guidance for the executive board in all matters musical and university-related subject areas.

The foundation is subordinate to the state supervision of the regional council Karlsruhe as foundation authority.

Members of the executive board

Dr. Hermann Büttner (Chairman)
Prof. Roberto Domingos (Deputy Chairman)
Dr. Tilmann Büttner

Members of the advisory council

Prof. Hartmut Höll (Chairman)
Edith Adler-Büttner
Prof. Josef Rissin
Claudia Simon
Knut Bargen

Non-profit status

Account: ADLER BÜTTNER STIFTUNG (Commerzbank Mannheim)
IBAN: DE32 6704 0031 0311 7744 00
BIC: COBADEFFXXX
In accordance to its statutory goal the foundation sponsors art and culture. On these grounds the revenue office of Karlsruhe-Durlach attested the foundation its status as non-profit foundation via notification. Hence the foundation is entitled to issue fiscally acknowledged donation certificates for contributors valid for German tax law.

We appreciate any kind of support for our foundation.

 

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Contact information

ADLER BÜTTNER STIFTUNG

Phone

+49 (0)721 40 89 03

Address

Strählerweg 109, D-76227 Karlsruhe