The CSU-affiliated Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSS) is a political foundation, which provides political education work in the service of democracy, peace and development.

"In the service of democracy, peace and development" - with this motto, the Hanns Seidel Foundation overrides their work un d its mission. This motto applies both for their commitment domestically - especially of course in Bavaria -. As well as abroad , the former German President Roman Herzog once described the "Education for Democracy" as a "permanent and real object of political foundations". You Wear help, "the citizens of the open society can participate in the development process of democracy so knowledgeable as possible". The understanding of democracy must be purchased anew in each generation.Especially young people need to be made ​​clear political contexts. Only then they will be able to motivate, to engage themselves and to take responsibility. To put it in a tight denominator: democracy requires political education.But belongs to this persuasion for our democracy and the liberal, constitutional and social order and the assurance and integration of fundamental values ​​and norms of our community in the minds of citizens. The rapid and profound changes, the closest our country, reinforces the need for value orientations, to rooting in reliable structures and comprehensible order spaces. In other words:. The growing pressure to innovate state and society, economy, science and technology makes the return to our historical roots and our intellectual and cultural foundations all the more necessary since it was founded on April 11, 1967 operates the Hanns Seidel Foundation political education with the objective - as stated in the Articles of Association - to promote "democratic and civic education of the German people on Christian principles". The CSU-affiliated Hanns Seidel Foundation is named after the former Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU chairman Hanns Seidel. Political Foundations are economically, legally and organizationally independent of the respective parties, but working within the meaning of those ideology. The Hanns Seidel Foundation embodies Christian social values ​​that find influence in our work at home and abroad. The political education of the Hanns Seidel Foundation is based on an image of man to which the free development of personality and their own responsibility as include as social responsibility and solidarity. This order is just in our time, in the need for more individual responsibility, a new "culture of independence" and an "active civil society" ever more prominent, more current than ever.

Political education, promotion of science, policy advice, scholarship program, development cooperation un d cultivating international contacts - that are in focus, the focus of the work of the Hanns Seidel Foundation.