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...foundation. They put in €900,000, and Scheubeck encouraged the company's suppliers and business partners to make donations. With more than €1.1 million now in its coffers, the Scheubeck-Jansen Foundation has enough to fund its initial project: the first professorship in sensor technology at nearby Regensburg University of Applied Sciences. "We wanted to do something for the region, to set a cornerstone for a new industry cluster," says Scheubeck, 54, who chairs the foundation and serves as managing director of the family holding company. Until recently, such generosity would have been unusual - unwanted even - in Germany...
...charitable foundation. They put in $1.1 million, and Scheubeck encouraged the company's suppliers and business partners to make donations. With more than $1.4 million now in its coffers, the Scheubeck-Jansen Foundation has enough to fund its initial project: the first professorship in sensor technology at nearby Regensburg University of Applied Sciences. "We wanted to do something for the region, to set a cornerstone for a new industry cluster," says Scheubeck, 54, who chairs the foundation and serves as managing director of the family holding company...
...philanthropy bug continues to spread. In Regensburg, Johann Vielberth, a real estate developer, set up a foundation earlier this year to finance a new institute of real estate studies with four professorships at the university. Next year he will put up a new building to house it. Vielberth, 72, says that although his family has backed local causes for 150 years, he is formalizing that tradition and taking the generosity to a new level: the donation to the university exceeds $10 million. "It's time for a culture of philanthropy to begin again," he says. Given Europe's growing funding...
...core of all the gun evils are the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms. When will the U.S. finally realize that selling a gun to everyone as if it were a roll of toilet paper is the cause of all the horror? JENS KURNER Regensburg, Germany...
...group of well-meaning men met in the German town of Regensburg. Their topic was Martin Luther's ideas about justification by faith, rancor over which was fast splitting Western Christianity in two. Could justification, which all saw as the precondition of salvation, be influenced by human effort, or was it, as Luther had insisted, out of mortal hands? The Regensburg conferees, representing the Roman Catholic Church and the new Protestantism, produced language on the issue they thought might mend the rift...