postal address:
Am Römerturm 3
50667 Köln
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)221 - 27 74 96-0
Fax:       +49 (0)221 - 27 74 96-29

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The Founders

The Fritz Thyssen Stiftung was founded on July 7, 1959, by Amélie Thyssen and her daughter Countess Anita Zichy-Thyssen in memory of August and Fritz Thyssen.

The Foundation was the first private foundation dedicated to the support of scholarship and research to be established after World War II in the Federal Republic of Germany, and has its office in Cologne.