for his promotion of German industrial reparations. He has been active in building connections between Jews and non-Jews in Germany, promoting close ties with Israel and supporting the revival of Jewish life in his home city of Munich. He is an Honorary Senator of the College of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg. In October 1999, he received the Interfaith Gold Medallion from the International Council of Christians and Jews for his services to German–Jewish reconciliation. In 2005, together with German publishing houses, he initiated the project Paten für Toleranz to support the Jewish Centre Jakobsplatz in Munich. Burda donated €1m to the project. Burda co-financed the production of an English-language CD-ROM of the Shoah Foundation (Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation) by Steven Spielberg. Burda's father, Franz Burda, was a publisher of maps prior to the rise of the Nazi regime and after it took power. Burda senior later became a supplier to the regime and, from 1938, a party member. The Burda publishing company's history during the Third Reich was described by Salomon Korn, a former Vice President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, as a "case study for coming generations as to the question of guilt and conscience, of entanglement and dealing with the burden of this legacy". Member of the Federal Assembly At the suggestion of the CDU, Hubert Burda was a member of the 14th Federal Assembly and participated in the election of the German Federal President on 30 June 2010. Publications The Ruin in the pictures Hubert Robert s Fink, Munich 1967 (Dissertation, Faculty of Arts of the University of Munich, 1967). (Ed.) Weltmarkt der Medien. Contributions by Wolfgang R. Langenbucher and Holger Rust. Burda, Munich 1993. The Digital Revolution. In: Media + Education. Jg. 38 (1994), No. 5, ; pp. 268–271. (Edited with Christa Maar) Iconic Turn. The new power of images. DuMont, Cologne 2004, . Medial Chambers of Wonder. Hrsg. Wolfgang Ullrich. Fink, Munich 2009, . What the Traditional Economy Can Learn From an Internet Entrepreneur. In: Ders., Mathias Döpfner, Bodo Hombach, Jürgen Rüttgers (ed.): 2020 - Thoughts on the Future of the Internet. Klartext, Essen, 2010. . In medias res. Ten chapters on the Iconic Turn. Petrarca / Fink, Munich / Paderborn 2010, . "The Bunte story - a people magazine in times of upheaval." Pantheon Verlag, Munich 2012, (Paperback), ISBN 978- 3-641-10040-7 (e-book). Hubert Burda: The Colorful Story. A