Munich (dpa / lby) - Actor and director Michael (Bully) Herbig, ex-ski racer Felix Neureuther and Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth (Greens) receive the Bavarian Constitutional Order. According to the Bavarian state parliament, "50 outstanding personalities" will be honored with the award this year.
State President Ilse Aigner (CSU) will hand over the medals next Friday (December 2) in the Senate Hall of the Maximilianeum, it said. Only Herbig was honored at a later date. The honored personalities also include the entrepreneurial couple Clarissa and Michael Käfer, entrepreneur Susanne Klatten, district council president Thomas Karmasin and the president of the VdK social association, Verena Bentele.
The Bavarian State Parliament honors citizens who are actively committed to the values of the Bavarian Constitution with the Constitutional Order. The award was donated as the Bavarian Constitutional Medal on December 1, 1961 by the then President of the State Parliament, Rudolf Hanauer. For 60 years it has been public recognition for citizens who are outstandingly committed to the common good and thus fill the values of the Bavarian Constitution with life. Since 2021, the order has been awarded as a Bavarian constitutional order in one class.
