Ernst Zinna Prize of the City of Berlin

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The Ernst Zinna Prize of the City of Berlin was founded on February 8, 1957 by the Magistrate of Greater Berlin and was awarded annually to young inventors, rationalizers and artists until 1989. The award was accompanied by a certificate, a badge of honor and a cash award.

It is named after the locksmith's apprentice Ernst Zinna , who died at the age of 17 in the barricade fighting of the March Revolution of 1848 in Berlin's Jägerstrasse . Armed only with his grandfather's old saber, he stood up against a battalion of Prussian soldiers, was seriously wounded and died the following day in the Charité . His grave is in the cemetery of the March dead in Friedrichshain's Volkspark .

Award winners (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. a b Kuntzsch, Helmut in the list of honors of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  2. ^ Ernst Zinna Prize Winner Helmut Kuntzsch, engineer, designer and inventor . In: Neues Deutschland , March 31, 1970, p. 8, nd-archiv.de