LIZ MoHN Foundation

The Liz Mohn Foundation continues the successful activities of the Liz Mohn Foundation gGmbH and the Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation within an independent institution. Liz Mohn, the organization’s founder, and Matthias Meis are the members of the foundation’s Executive Board.

One of Liz Mohn’s and the foundation’s heartfelt concerns is building bridges of understanding across languages and borders in order to bring people of different nations, cultures, professions and positions, as well as from different generations, into dialogue with each other.

At the same time, Liz Mohn has always known that if there is to be peace, prosperity and progress in the world, leaders are needed in a variety of fields – from politics to business to culture – who strengthen social cohesion and who motivate people and inspire them to be creative.

That is why Liz Mohn feels it is important for her foundation to develop people and their individual talents early on, while encouraging them to participate in society. One of our core convictions in this regard is that culture and music give people self-confidence and bring them into contact with others, and are therefore very important for each individual’s personal development and for society as a whole.

The Liz Mohn Foundation pursues solely and directly philanthropic activities.  Headquartered in Gütersloh, it is an independent foundation under private law in accordance with Section 1 of the Foundation Act of the State of North Rhine–Westphalia. The supervisory authority that oversees its activities is the Detmold District Government.