Connection and support for an important institution
From February 2025, the science city of Darmstadt leaves rooms in the Residenzschloss for another ten years to the German Poland Institute (DPI), which rented the city from the Technical University of Darmstadt (TUD). Mayor Hanno Benz and city treasurer André Schellenberg announced this after signing corresponding contracts.
"The German Poland Institute is a research, analysis, information and event center for Polish culture, history, politics and society and thus promotes German-Polish relationships in connection with European integration," explains Mayor Benz, the one with city treasurer Schellenberg signed the contract to transfer the premises for the science city of Darmstadt.
"With this contract extension, the science city of Darmstadt documents its connection and support for an important institution that promotes understanding between Poland and German and its relationships," emphasize Benz and Schellenberg.
“The German Poland Institute has found an excellent place to stay in the Residenzschloss, in the midst of scientific and cultural events. We are very grateful to the science city of Darmstadt that it supports our commitment to German-Polish relations for another decade. In our rooms, ideas for exciting projects and cultural events for Darmstadt and all of Germany will continue to be created, ”says the director of the German Poland Institute, Prof. Dr. Peter Oliver Loew.
Like the President of TUD, Prof. Dr. Tanja Brühl emphasizes, “The German Poland Institute is an important part of the science castle of the TU Darmstadt. The university and the DPI cooperate closely and maintain the open exchange with civil society. The short distances to the department of social and historical sciences are an advantage, as are the commitment of the institute director Prof. Dr. Peter Oliver Loew, who as a honorary professor at the Institute for History. ”
As early as 2012, the city council of the Science City of Darmstadt decided to rent rooms in the residence lock from the TUD and to leave the DPI for use. This contract has now been extended.
The DPI was founded in 1980 under the significant responsibility of the then Darmstadt Mayor Heinz Winfried Sabais. Until the move in the castle, the DPI resided on the Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt. President of the DPI is today the former Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, honorary president is the former president of the German Bundestag, Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth, chairman of the board of trustees, is Darmstadt Mayor Hanno Benz.
(Darmstadt - PSD/ HO)
