VdM diesel ring
The golden VdM diesel ring has been awarded annually since 1955 by the Association of Motor Journalists (VdM) to people who have made special contributions to "increasing road safety and reducing the consequences of accidents". The ring is awarded for one year and must then be returned. The previous owner receives a no less valuable copy for this.
The award was given the name Dieselring because the goldsmith worked a metal splinter from an original screw from Rudolf Diesel's first test engine into the plate of the golden ring to be awarded. On June 21, 1954, a part of this screw was removed from the first test diesel engine in the MAN factory museum in Augsburg.
Award winners
- 1955: Walter Linden
- 1956: Consul Erhard Vitger
- 1957: Paul Gülker
- 1958: Hans Bretz
- 1959: Hubert van Drimmelen
- 1960: Rudolf Hillebrecht
- 1961: Fritz Nallinger
- 1962: Ernst Jacobi, Ernst Meyer, Ernst Stiefel
- 1963: Georg Geiger
- 1964: Willi Weyer
- 1965: Wilhelm Leutzbach , Bruno Wehner
- 1966: Johannes Schlums
- 1967: Gerhard Munsch
- 1968: Herrmann Jaeger
- 1969: Rudolf Frey
- 1970: Paul W. Hoffmann
- 1971: Ernst Fiala
- 1972: Richard Zechnall
- 1973: Karl Luff, Siegfried Steiger
- 1974: Maximilian Danner
- 1975: Hans Scherenberg
- 1976: Johann Heinrich von Brunn
- 1977: Manfred Schreiber
- 1978: Richard Spiegel
- 1979: Hans J. Schwepcke, Felix Mottl
- 1980: Konrad Pfundt
- 1981: Gerhardt Schork
- 1982: Fritz Oswald
- 1983: Father Paul-Heinz Guntermann
- 1984: Udo Undeutsch
- 1985: Rolf Moll
- 1986: Werner Dollinger
- 1987: Berndt Gramberg-Denielsen, Erwin Hartmann
- 1988: Heinrich Praxenthaler
- 1989: Peter Brägas
- 1990: Peter Sefrin
- 1991: Wolfgang Bouska
- 1992: Wolfgang Lincke, Friedrich W. Lohr
- 1993: Eberhard Hemminger
- 1994: Kay-Jürgen Schröder
- 1995: Klaus Langwieder
- 1996: Erika Emmerich
- 1997: Dieter Ellinghaus
- 1998: Rudolf Günther
- 1999: Volker Meewes
- 2000: Armin Müller, Anton Th. Van Zanten
- 2001: Max Mosley
- 2002: Bob Lee
- 2003: Manfred Bandmann
- 2004: Dieter Anselm
- 2005: Hans-Joachim Schmidt-Clausen
- 2006: Hartmut Marwitz
- 2007: Peter Hupfer
- 2008: Dieter-Lebrecht Koch
- 2009: Elmar Frickenstein
- 2010: Dietmar Otte
- 2011: Kurt Bodewig
- 2012: Julia Seifert
- 2013: Rodolfo Schöneburg
- 2014: Ulrich Hackenberg
- 2015: Dieter Müller
- 2016: Walter Eichendorf
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Motor journalists meet in Eisenach. Metal splinters as a diamond. Award winner Dr. Rudolf Günther. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung from May 8, 1998.
- ↑ motorjournalist.de: VdM-Dieselring - Active for Security ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 11, 2014
