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Stiftung für das Sorbische Volk

German foundation

The Foundation for the Sorbian people (Sorbian; German: Stiftung für das sorbische Volk) is a nonprofit foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the states of Saxony and Brandenburg. It was established to preserve of the languages, culture, and traditions.2 It is part of Federal Ministery of the Interior.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1991Founded1
  • HeadquartersBautzen, Germany1
  • Websitezalozba.de
  • Legal formprivate foundation, public foundation1
  • Kind of organizationFoundation1
  • LEI391200WWYFAK70BEL7433
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressPostplatz 2, 02625 Bautzen, Germany3

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Budyšin Serbski Dom
Photo: Julian Nyča, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

The Foundation for the Sorbian people (Sorbian; German: Stiftung für das sorbische Volk) is a nonprofit foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the states of Saxony and Brandenburg. It was established to preserve of the languages, culture, and traditions.2

Corporate structure

Stiftung für das Sorbische Volk sits at the top of its group. 1 entity, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Stiftung für das Sorbische Volk Bautzen, Germany
    • Serbski dom Owned · Bautzen, Germany

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Stiftung für das Sorbische Volk reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

  • Serbski dom

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

The foundation has its seat in the house of the Sorbs in Bautzen. Additionally, it has a branch offices in Cottbus and regional offices in Crostwitz, Hoyerswerda and Schleife. The foundation was established on October 19, 1991, in the Lutheran church of Lohsa by the Federal Republic of Germany and the states of Saxony and Brandenburg.

It provides most of the funding for the Sorbian institutions, granting about 23.9 million € annually to the Sorbian National Ensemble, the Domowina including its language center Witaj, the Domowina Publishing House, the Serbski Institut, the German-Sorbian Theater, the Wendish Museum Cottbus and the Sorbian Museum Bautzen.

The foundation board consists of fifteen members, whereof six are representatives of the Sorbian people (four form Saxony and two from Brandenburg).

From Wikipedia’s article on Foundation for the Sorbian People, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

  • Federal Ministery of the Interior

Also owns

  • Serbski dom

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1991Founded Founded1

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