Alvensleben Jellinek Medal of Honor

The Alvensleben-Jellinek-Ehrensmedaille is an Austrian award for people who have made a contribution to improving the safety of electricity use . It was donated in 1997 by Gottfried Biegelmeier , the inventor of the residual current circuit breaker . Biegelmaier dedicated it to the German Conrad Alvensleben and the Austrian physician Stefan Jellinek , who also did a great job on this topic.

The medal is awarded every two to three years by the non-profit private foundation for electrical protection (ESF).

Award winners

1997 - Dieter Kieback (Germany), former head of the Institute for Research into Electrical Accidents of the Professional Association for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering, Cologne
1999 - Björn Folcker (Sweden), former President of the International Commission on Rules for the Approval of Electrical Equipment and the IECEE / CEE
2001 - Hermann Antoni (Germany), former head of the Institute for Physiology Freiburg im Breisgau
2004 - Vito Carrescia (Italy), Technical University of Turin
2007 - Walter Skuggevig (USA), member of the Henry Merill Society
2011 - Siegfried Altmann , University of Technology, Economy and Culture Leipzig
2014 - Gerhard Rabitsch, former head of the Electropathological Museum Vienna
2017 - Josef Groiß, former technical expert Netz Oberösterreich and former board member of the ESF