Wilhelm Weber Prize for Christiane Woopen

Social Institute Kommende Dortmund honors ethicist from the University of Bonn . Ethicist Christiane Woopen of the University of Bonn received this year's Wilhelm Weber Award in Dortmund for her many years of social commitment. The prize, named after the theologian and social scientist Wilhelm Weber (1925-1983), is awarded for "special services in the spirit of Catholic social ethics." During a ceremony at the Kommende Dortmund, the social institute of the archdiocese of Paderborn, former federal constitutional judge Paul Kirchhof gave the laudatory speech for the prize winner. "Whenever fundamental questions of man and human life are at stake, her advice is in demand," said laudator Paul Kirchhof. The "art of the open question that breaks out of the conventional" is what distinguishes her. Christiane Woopen is known to a wider public as an expert during the Covid 19 pandemic. She studied human medicine and philosophy.