Patrons of the Handel Festival

2019

Sir Sebastian Wood, KCMG (Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St.George), Britain’s Ambassador to Germany

Dr. Reiner Haseloff, Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt

2018
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2017
Prof. Monika Grütters, Minister of State to the Federal Chancellor, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

2016
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2015
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2013   
Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert, President of the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany

2012   
Dr. Dr. h.c. Margot Käßmann, EKD Council Ambassador for the Reformation Jubilee 2017

2011   
S.K.H. Prince Alexander of Saxony, Duke of Saxony

2010
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2009   
Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II. of the United Kingdom and Prof. Dr. Horst Köhler, President of the Federal State of Germany

2008   
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2007   
Principessa Claudia Ruspoli

2006
Franz Morak, Minister of State for Cultural Affairs and Media of the Republic of Austria

2005
Waldemar Dabrowski, Minister for Cultural Affairs of the Republic of Poland

2004
Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Jutta Limbach, President dof the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (off duty), President of the Goethe Institute

2003
Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Minister for Cultural Affairs and Communication of the French Repulic and Dr. Christina Weiss, Minister of State for Cultural and Media Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany

2002
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Howe of Aberavon

2001
Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland

2000
Dr. Hermann Freiherr von Richthofen

1999
Dr. Michael Naumann, Minister of State for Cultural and Media Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany

1998
Professor August Everding, Director

1997
Jaques Santer, President of the European Commission

1996
Dr. Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

1995
Dr. Klaus Keitel, President of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt

1994
Dr. Christoph Bergner, Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt

1993
Prof. Dr. Werner Münch, Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt

1992
Dr. Werner Sobetzko, Minister for Cultural Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt

1991
Dr. Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany