Carl Arthur Pastor Foundation
The Dr. Carl Arthur Pastor Foundation is a non-profit foundation under private law based in Aachen . It has existed since 1962. Its aim is to promote particularly talented trainees and students as well as to support engineering achievements, especially in the humanitarian field.
Like the Friedrich Wilhelm Foundation , which has existed for more than 150 years and is still established by the Aachener Feuerversicherungsgesellschaft, it belongs to the 16 best diploma or master’s theses, 15 best dissertations and the two best habilitation theses with up to 2,500 euros each be subsidized - to the funding of the future fund of Generali Germany and is registered in the foundation directory NRW.
history
The foundation goes back to a will from Carl Arthur Pastor (1885–1960), a grandson of the Kgl. prussia. Kommerzienrat Rudolf Arthur Pastor and great-grandson of the President of the Chamber of Commerce Philipp Heinrich Pastor . Carl Arthur Pastor arranged that after his death a large part of his fortune should be available for charitable purposes. The former court assessor and bank director as well as honorary senator and honorary citizen of the RWTH Aachen was chairman of the supervisory board of the Aachener und Münchener Versicherungs-Gesellschaft, a predecessor organization of the AachenMünchener -Versicherungs-AG and today's Generali Deutschland Holding AG, which is also the trustee of the foundation. It is divided into two funding areas:
Scholarships
| Carl-Arthur Pastor Scholarship | |
|---|---|
| Funding period: | 12 months |
| Funding amount: | 750 € monthly |
| Founder: | Carl Arthur Pastor Foundation |
| requirements | |
| Region: | Aachen |
| Target group: | especially gifted trainees in the insurance industry, but also students, primarily technical from the Eastern bloc, in master's programs of RWTH Aachen University ( RWTH Aachen ) |
| Website: | rwth-aachen.de |
This scholarship foundation, together with the German Association for Insurance Science e. V. particularly talented trainees in the insurance industry, but also students, mainly from the Eastern Bloc, in master's courses at the RWTH Aachen University . The scholarships are intended to give talented young academics the opportunity to devote themselves exclusively to their studies as early as possible. They amount to a monthly amount of 750 euros in addition to the reimbursement of the applicable semester fees and are valid for a period of one year.
Aachen and Munich Prize for Technology and Applied Natural Sciences
The prize for achievements in the field of technology and applied natural sciences was awarded annually from 1975 to 2005 and was endowed with up to 30,000 euros. In particular, the foundation paid tribute to achievements of outstanding humanitarian or civilizational importance. It was donated by Aachener und Münchener Versicherung AG.
Award winners (selection)
- 1975: Hermann F. Mark
- 1976: Rune Elmqvist and Åke Senning
- 1978: Heinrich Welker
- 1979: Godfrey Hounsfield
- 1980: Konrad Zuse , computer engineer, Bad Hersfeld
- 1981: Béla Barényi , Austrian car designer and safety engineer
- 1982: Winfried Oppelt , TU Darmstadt
- 1985: Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain , aircraft manufacturer
- 1986: Rudolf Schulten , developer of the pebble pile nuclear power plant
- 1987: E. Meili
- 1988: Inge Edler and Carl Helmut Hertz , pioneers in the field of echocardiography
- 1989: Günther Wilke , professor emeritus for chemistry, director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research
- 1990: Fritz Leonhardt , important German civil engineer
- 1991: Heinz Leiber, former head of electrics / electronics development at Mercedes-Benz
- 1992: Georg Menges , professor emeritus for plastics technology
- 1993: Adolf Birkhofer and Edgar Biemer
- 1994: Wolfgang Helfrich , professor emeritus for physics at the Free University of Berlin, and Martin Schadt , physicist from Basel
- 1996: Joachim Trümper , professor emeritus for astrophysics, Munich
- 1997: Fritz Frederich , Head of the Institute for Materials Handling and Rail Vehicles at RWTH Aachen University
- 1998: Heinz Brauer , professor emeritus at the Institute for Process Engineering at the TU Berlin.
- 1999: Hans Försching , aerospace safety pioneer, emeritus director of the DLR Institute for Aeroelastics
- 2000: Wolfgang Backé , head of the Institute for Fluid Power Drives and Controls at RWTH Aachen University
- 2001: Robert H. Dennert , "pioneer" in the semiconductor industry
- 2002: Helmut Ringsdorf , Mainz chemist, together with Karl Winnacker , former honorary professor for applied chemistry at the University of Frankfurt am Main and CEO of Hoechst AG
- 2003: Joachim Heinzl , professor for precision engineering and mechatronics at the Technical University of Munich
- 2005: Ulrich Schumann , Director at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen.
organs
The management board consists of the chairman of the supervisory board and the chairman of the management board of the insurance group Generali Germany . Both are volunteers.
The board of directors has appointed a board of trustees consisting of three professors from RWTH Aachen University and three professors from Technical University of Munich to select the winners . The founder has no influence on the nomination of the award winners.
Web links
- Carl Arthur Scholarships , detailed description on careerscampus.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Note under “Future Fund” on the Generali Deutschland website
- ^ Dr-Carl-Arthur-Pastor-Stiftung on the website of the Ministry of the Interior in North Rhine-Westphalia