Wolfgang Kuhlen Prize

The Wolfgang Kuhlen Prize is awarded by the Dr Otto Schäfer Foundation (Schweinfurt) to the best graduate of the First Law Examination at the University of Würzburg.

The purpose of the foundation is to "promote science and research, education and upbringing as well as the promotion of youth care and youth welfare". Dr Otto Schäfer donated the prize in 1994 on the occasion of his wife Ida's 80th birthday, in memory of her brother, Wolfgang Kuhlen. Born in Cologne in 1918, he had almost completed his law studies in Freiburg and Cologne when he was called up for the war. He was killed as a soldier in Russia in 1942.