Bauer-Hollmann Foundation

The Bauer-Hollmann Stiftung (Bauer-Hollmann Foundation) is a German non-profit foundation founded in 2000 by the Bauer-Hollmann family of Hamburg. It is dedicated to the promotion of science and research as well as environmental and nature conservation. The founding family was guided by the conviction that progress is only possible through high-performance science and research. The foundation's funding focuses on scientific research, particularly in the fields of environmental science, biodiversity and nature conservation. It has supported the establishment of a junior research group on greenhouse-gas fluxes in Wadden Sea tidal marshes at the University of Hamburg's Institute of Soil Science, and from 2023 it supports the "MeioMon" project on meiofauna-based ecological monitoring of North Sea beach ecosystems at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands through its 2023 postdoc funding programme "BEN - Biodiversity - Ecology - Nature". The foundation has assets of approximately 3.5 million euros and an annual funding volume of around 100,000 euros. It does not currently have an open call for applications. The foundation is administratively managed by the Deutsches Stiftungszentrum (German Foundation Centre) in Essen, with Hannah Hexamer serving as foundation manager.

The Bauer-Hollmann Stiftung was established in 2000 by the Bauer-Hollmann family from Hamburg. The family was motivated by the belief that progress can only be achieved through high-performance science and research. Since its founding, the foundation has dedicated its resources to promoting science and research as well as environmental and nature conservation. One of its notable early funding activities was supporting the establishment of a junior research group titled "Greenhouse-gas fluxes in Wadden Sea Tidal Marshes - A Trilateral (NL, DE, DK) Assessment of Natural Climate Solutions" at the University of Hamburg's Institute of Soil Science. This project reflects the foundation's interest in climate and coastal ecosystem research. From 2023, under its postdoc funding programme 2023 BEN - "Biodiversity - Ecology - Nature", the foundation has supported the project "MeioMon - towards a meiofauna-based ecological monitoring of North Sea beach ecosystems" at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands. This project focuses on tiny organisms (meiofauna) as indicators for ecological monitoring of North Sea beach ecosystems. The foundation is administratively managed by the Deutsches Stiftungszentrum (German Foundation Centre) in Essen, with Hannah Hexamer serving as foundation manager. As of the available information, the foundation has assets of approximately 3.5 million euros and an annual funding volume of around 100,000 euros. It does not currently have an open call for applications.

• 2023

  Postdoc funding programme 2023 BEN - Biodiversity - Ecology - Nature supports the MeioMon project at Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

• 2000

  Foundation established by the Bauer-Hollmann family from Hamburg.

A family-established German foundation focused on advancing science and research as well as environmental and nature conservation, with a modest endowment and targeted project funding.

1. 1Bauer-Hollmann Stiftung | Deutsches Stiftungszentrumdeutsches-stiftungszentrum.de
2. 2Bauer-Hollman Foundation - Wikidatawikidata.org