"Our yes to liberty is a statement of our belief in the individual, an open society and a liberal democratic order of values."
It was from Franz Josef Strauss that the Hanns Seidel Foundation received its most important and valuable impulses.
Without his dedication and his help, his experience and his international connections, the Foundation would never have been able to achieve such a highly respected position and such importance.
Franz Josef Strauss's achievements, his principles and his programmes remain an obligation and a committment for the work of the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
Liberty. Justice. Peace. For Franz Josef Strauss, that triad was the prime objective and obligation in world politics; his ideas gave politics character, and his actions gave modern Bavaria its appearance.
As a Homo politicus, he remains the criterion for political expertise; as a humanist, he remains a model; and as a human being, he gives permanent expression to the way Bavarian see themselves.
