Gerhard Kreysa

Gerhard Kreysa (born September 21, 1945 in Dresden ) is a German chemist and was managing director of DECHEMA until 2009 .

Live and act

Gerhard Kreysa studied chemistry from 1964 to 1969 at the Technical University of Dresden , where he received his doctorate from Professor Kurt Schwabe at the "Institute for Physical and Electrochemistry" in 1970 . From 1973 to 1978 he worked as a research assistant at DECHEMA in Frankfurt (Main) .

In 1978 he was at the University of Dortmund habilitation . He was then appointed head of the “ Electrochemistry ” working group at the DECHEMA Institute. Before he was appointed Deputy Managing Director of DECHEMA in 1986, he took up his unscheduled professorship at the University of Dortmund in 1985 . From 1990 to 1998 he was chairman of the board of the Kurt Schwabe Foundation .

From 1992 to 2009 Gerhard Kreysa was managing director of DECHEMA. In addition to his work as managing director, he was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Dresden-Rossendorf research center until 2000 . From 1994 to 1996 he was a member of the executive committee, from 1997 to 2002 deputy chairman of the Scientific Council of the AiF . Gerhard Kreysa has been a member and chairman of the University Council of Clausthal University of Technology since 2000 and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering (IVA) in Stockholm since 2003 .

Prizes and awards

Gerhard Kreysa is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) .

• 1980 Awarded the Chemviron Prize
• 1981 Awarded the DECHEMA Prize 1980
• 1993 Honorary professorship at the University of Regensburg
• 1994 Awarded the Castner Medal of the Society of Chemical Industry
• 1998 Award of an honorary doctorate (engineering sciences) from Clausthal University of Technology
• 1999 Awarded an honorary doctorate (technology) from the Royal Technical University of Stockholm
• 2006 Awarded the Wilhelm Ostwald Medal by the Saxon Academy of Sciences
• 2007 Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony for his services to the maintenance and successful further development of Saxon research institutions, as well as their integration into German research funding.
• 2015: Gold at the BFF Documentation of the BDFA for its film: Gerhard Kreysa: The first day
• 2016: Honorary citizen of the Clausthal University of Technology

Individual evidence

1. ^ Press release on the award of the Wilhelm Ostwald Medal ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ Press release February 5, 2007 ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Order of Merit from Saxony for Professor Kreysa from Eppstein ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Eppsteiner Zeitung from January 31, 2007  
4. ↑ Reflection on the day of a prisoner in the Dresden Stasi prison

literature

• Literature by and about Gerhard Kreysa in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

• Dechema: Short biography of Gerhard Kreysa , press release from November 18, 2008
• Frankfurter Allgemeine : Frankfurt faces: Gerhard Kreysa , May 23, 2003.