The Lower Saxony State Prize () has been awarded by the State of
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...
since 2002. From 1978 to 1999 it was called the Lower Saxony Prize ().
The award is presented by the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony. The prize has been awarded to personalities who have made outstanding services to the state through their outstanding work in the fields of culture, women, social affairs, science, the environment or the economy.
The award is endowed with €35,000 and can be shared.
The award winners are selected by a voluntary jury consisting of up to ten people from Lower Saxony.
Recipients Lower Saxony Prize
* 2000 award not given
* 2001
Timm Ulrichs,
Jürgen Großmann
Recipients Lower Saxony State Prize

* 2002
Axel Haverich
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Biography
Born in Lemgo, Haverich completed his Abitur at the Barntrup Gymnasium in 1972. He studied medicine at the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH) and grad ...
* 2003
Georg Baselitz
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* 2004
Peter Gruss
* 2005
Hans Georg Näder,
Christiane Iven
* 2006
Gerhard Steidl
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Life and work
Gerhard Stei ...
,
Christian von Bar
* 2007
Heinz Rudolf Kunze,
Eva-Maria Neher
* 2008
Stefan Hell
* 2009
Aloys Wobben,
Heinrich Riebesehl
* 2010
Wilhelm Krull,
Ulrich Tukur
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* 2012
Georg Klein,
Ulrich Reimers
* 2014
Gudrun Schröfel,
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Rudolf Schenker,
Klaus Meine
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Matthias Jabs
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* 2016
Bruce Allen,
Alessandra Buonanno,
Karsten Danzmann
* 2018
Stefan Aust
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,
Jan-Dieter Bruns
* 2020
Igor Levit
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Biography
Born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) to ...
,
Edith Bischof
References
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Awards for contributions to culture
German awards
Awards established in 1978