German Ocean Prize

The German Ocean Prize is an award jointly presented by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel and Deutsche Bank under the patronage of the Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein . The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros and has been awarded since 2009 to people "who have made a special contribution to the preservation, protection or communication of knowledge about and about the oceans."

The German Sea Prize integrates the Elisabeth Mann Borgese Sea Prize , which was awarded by the Schleswig-Holstein state government from 2006 to 2009 with a similar objective. The Elisabeth Mann Borgese Marine Prize was awarded both as a science prize endowed with 20,000 euros and as an undoped honorary prize for political and social commitment to the preservation and protection of the seas. It was named after the ecologist and maritime law expert Elisabeth Mann-Borgese , a daughter of Thomas Mann .

Award winners

Elisabeth Mann Borgese Sea Prize

• 2006 Erwin Suess , marine scientists, for his scientific work in the marine geosciences
  0000 prize: Klaus Toepfer active in various offices and functions lobbyist for the seas, whose protection he as chief environmentalist at the United Nations has operated
• 2007 Boris Worm (* 1969), marine ecologist, for his analysis of overfishing and marine biological diversity ( biodiversity )
  0000Honorary award: Biliana Cicin-Sain , American scientist, initiator and co-founder of the " Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands ", Director of the Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy in Delaware / USA
• 2009 Joe Borg (* 1952), since 2004, fisheries and maritime commissioner of the EU , for its commitment to the implementation of an integrated maritime policy in Europe Frank Schätzing (* 1957), writer, for his Ökothriller The Swarm Hans Hass (1919-2013) , Marine researcher and filmmaker, for his life's work
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German Ocean Prize

• 2009 Mojib Latif
• 2010 Karin Lochte
• 2011 Frank Schätzing
• 2012 José Maria Neves
• 2013 Ranga Yogeshwar
• 2015 Nicholas Sloane
• 2016 Albert II of Monaco
• 2018 Karmenu Vella

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EU Commissioner receives German Sea Prize ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• deutscher-meerespreis.de
• Elisabeth Mann Borgese Sea Prize ( Memento from September 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )