Moses Mendelssohn
Beginning in 2007 she invested great effort toward the establishment of the Dessau Moses Mendelssohn Foundation for the Promotion of the Arts and Humanities (Dessauer Moses Mendelssohn Stiftung zur Förderung der Geisteswissenschaften). A predecessor of this organization by the same name was launched by Albert Einstein and others in 1929. In spring 2013 the first Dessau Moses Mendelssohn Prize for the Promotion of the Arts and Humanities was awarded to philosopher Anne Pollok, who is from Germany and who teaches in the United States.