Ernst Haage Prize

The Ernst Haage Prize has been awarded by the Ernst Haage Foundation since 2006 and honors young scientists for outstanding achievements in the field of chemical energy conversion.

Ernst Haage

The Ernst Haage Foundation, which awards the Ernst Haage Prize, is named after the Mülheim entrepreneur Ernst Haage (born October 27, 1901 in Duisburg ; † August 23, 1968 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ), who died in 1968 scientific and technical instruments and components have been closely associated with research at the Mülheim Max Planck Institute since 1932 . Ernst Haage's career began in 1916 with an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr (KWI), today the MPI for Coal Research.

On April 1, 1925, Ernst Haage took over the management of the precision mechanics workshops and technical facilities at the KWI and founded his own company there in 1932, which was relocated to its own building in 1963. The main focus of the company was on the construction of apparatus for research and science. The employees developed and built a wide variety of test equipment for laboratories in almost all industries at home and abroad, and in particular equipment for gasoline synthesis and the petroleum industry as well as special equipment for the chemical and paper industry.

For his commitment to science and research, Ernst Haage was awarded the Badge of Merit for Science by the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in 1936, which President Max Planck gave him personally. Ernst Haage, also a member of the board of the employers' association of the Metall-Industrie Ruhr-Niederrhein eV and promoter of youth sport, was also awarded the Cross of Merit on ribbon by the then Federal President Heinrich Lübke in March 1968 .

Ernst Haage Foundation

The Ernst Haage Foundation for the promotion of young academics was brought into being in 2006 through a private donation. The Foundation's Board of Trustees, which consists of an authorized representative of the founder and the Board of Directors of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC), awards the Ernst Haage Prize every year to excellent research by young scientists.

Realignment of the Ernst Haage Prize

Since the Ernst Haage Prize was founded, the award has been given to outstanding young scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion and thus had the character of an internal award ceremony. However, the foundation's board of trustees wanted to significantly increase the national significance of the award. For this reason, the prize was realigned in 2012, which has since been awarded in three categories:

In the first category Ernst Haage Prize (national) , the prize is advertised throughout Germany and goes to young scientists working in Germany with outstanding research achievements. The award thus underlines the special importance of Germany as a strong scientific location.
In the second category, the Ernst Haage Prize for PhD students , the award goes to excellent scientists who did their doctorate at the MPI CEC in the previous year with outstanding achievements.
In addition to the next generation of academics, who are rewarded for their achievements, the above-average training achievements of the apprentices at the MPI CEC are appropriately recognized. That is why the foundation has been awarding the Ernst Haage Foundation's trainee award since 2009. This category was retained even after the realignment.

As part of the renaming of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (previously Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry), the research area to be funded was also redefined. The purpose of the foundation is therefore to promote the field of chemical energy conversion, in particular to promote young scientists who research and work innovatively and successfully in this field.

Award winners

Ernst Haage Prize Winner 2006–2011

2006 John Berry
2007 Johannes Messinger
2008 Connie Lu
2009 Maria-Eirini Pandelia, Carsten Milsmann
2010 Dimitrios A. Pantazis
2011 Nicholas Cox

Ernst Haage Prize (national)

2012 Kallol Ray
2013 Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin
2014 Martin HG Prechtl
2015 Inke Siewert
2016 Aliaksandr Bandarenka
2017 Harald Oberhofer
2018 Tim-Patrick Fellinger
2019 Thomas-Christian Jagau

Ernst Haage Prize for doctoral students

2012 Andreas Hansen
2013 Michael Römelt
2014 Katharina Weber
2015 Julia Schumann
2016 Cyriac Massué
2017 Patricia Rodríguez Maciá
2018 Lucas Schreyer
2019 Casey van Stappen

literature

Fritz Heckmann: Ernst Haage - apparatus engineering and laboratory equipment . In: Mülheimer Verkehrsverein (Ed.): Mülheim an der Ruhr - Yearbook 2013. Thierbach, Mülheim an der Ruhr 2012, pp. 230-233.
Fritz Heckmann: From the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute to an own company for apparatus engineering and laboratory equipment: Ernst Haage . In: Horst A. Wessel (Ed.): Mülheim entrepreneurs and pioneers in the 19th and 20th centuries. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2012, pp. 169–172.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Fritz Heckmann: Ernst Haage Apparatebau und Laboreinrichtungen. In: Mülheimer Verkehrsverein (ed.): Mülheim an der Ruhr. Yearbook 2013. Thierbach, Mülheim an der Ruhr 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814120-2-4 .
↑ Ernst Haage 60 years old. 40% of its factory products are exported. In: Ruhr-Nachrichten v. October 27, 1961.
↑ Ernst Haage Prize . Website of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion

[1] Fritz Heckmann: Ernst Haage Apparatebau und Laboreinrichtungen. In: Mülheimer Verkehrsverein (ed.): Mülheim an der Ruhr. Yearbook 2013. Thierbach, Mülheim an der Ruhr 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814120-2-4 .

[2] Ernst Haage 60 years old. 40% of its factory products are exported. In: Ruhr-Nachrichten v. October 27, 1961.

[3] Ernst Haage Prize . Website of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion