On the occasion of Max Weber’s 150^th birthday on  April 21^st, 2014, the Federal Ministry of Finance issued a special stamp. During a small official ceremony the stamp was presented on April 29^th, 2014 at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Key note speakers were the Academy’s president Professor Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, ministerial director Dr. Bruno Kahl, Dr. Hans-Georg Küppers, member of the city of Munich’s culture department, Professor Hans van Ess, vice president of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Professor Gangolf Hübinger, co-editor of the Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe and Professor Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, chairman of the Academy's Commission for Social and Economic History. A very special moment occurred when Florian Schwarz recited writings by Max Weber.

On the occasion of Max Weber’s 150^th birthday the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in its magazine Akademie Aktuell published a special edition reporting on Weber’s biography, his work and the edition of the Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe. Richly illustrated this edition of Akademie Aktuell became a very special one.

In cooperation with the Münchner Volkshochschule the Kommission für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte honored Max Weber with a series of ten lectures. A highlight of the series „In der entzauberten Welt. 150 Jahre Max Weber“ was the final discussion. It took place at the Academy, with M. Rainer Lepsius and Jürgen Kaube as contestants and Friedrich Wilhelm Graf as anchorman. ARD-alpha aired this event on August 26^th, 2014 titled „150 Jahre nach Max Weber. Zwischenbetrachtungen im Prozess der Rationalisierung“.

On the occasion of Weber’s 150^th birthday a number of workshops and conferences took place all over the world:

• April 3^rd and 4^th, 2014, Heidelberg (Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Heidelberg):
  Max Weber-Tagung 2014: Alte Begriffe – Neue Probleme: Max Webers Soziologie im Lichte aktueller Problemstellungen
• April 25^th and 26^th 2014, Berlin (Hugo-Preuß-Stiftung):
  Politischer Konfessionalismus. Tagung anlässlich des 150. Geburtstags von Max Weber. Gastveranstaltung der Hugo-Preuß-Stiftung in Kooperation mit der Stiftung Topographie des Terrors.
• April 29^th until June 27^th , 2014, München (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften und VHS München):
  In der entzauberten Welt. 150 Jahre Max Weber. Vortragsreihe, Seminar und Stadtexkursion
• May 7^th and 8^th, 2014, Rome (Accademia nazionale dei lincei):
  Ripensare Max Weber. In occasione del centocinquantesimo anniversario della nascita. Comitato ordinatore: Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi, Allesandro Cavalli, Pietri Rossi, Wolfgang Schluchter
• June 2^nd 2014, Frankfurt (Oder) (Europa-Universität Viadrina):
  Max Weber. Ein Gelehrtenleben in Briefen. Symposium zum 150sten Geburtstag von Max Weber

• July 2^nd until July 4^th, 2014, Erfurt, Max-Weber-Kolleg:
  Max Weber übersetzen und edieren: Erfahrungen und Einsichten, veranstaltet von Johannes Weiß und Wilfried Nippel
• October 2^nd and 3^rd, 2014, Mexico City (CIDE = Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, México):
  Max Weber y las ciencias sociales del siglo XXI. Presentada por Álvaro Morcillo (CIDE, DIE) y Eduardo Weisz (UBA)
• December 4^th and 5^th, 2014, Oldenburg (Karl-Jaspers-Gesellschaft e.V.):
  Moderne als Tabubruch. Max Weber und der „Tag von Antiochien“. Organisiert von Matthias Bormuth und Michael Sommer
• December 7^th, 2014, Tokyo (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies):
  Weber-Symposium