Hermann Credner Prize
The Hermann Credner Prize of the German Society for Geosciences (DGG) is usually an annual prize for outstanding achievements in geology . It is named after Hermann Credner and is awarded to young geoscientists.
In 1911, Friends of Credner founded a foundation (Hermann Credner Foundation) that awarded grants to young geologists, which was coordinated by the DGG. Due to the world wars and inflation, the foundation lost its assets in the meantime, but could be replenished in the 1950s by a foundation of a former student of Credner (Adda von Helldorff). Since 1960, a prize has been awarded annually (since 1970 with a plaque).
The award winners should have a doctorate and habilitation and should be under 40 years of age.
Award winners
- 1960 Dietrich Herm (Munich), Reinhard Pflug (Rio de Janeiro)
- 1961 Dieter Richter (Frankfurt)
- 1962 Volker Jacobshagen (Marburg), Werner Pleßmann (Göttingen), Klaus Schmidt (Munich)
- 1963 Anton Forster
- 1964 Paul Wurster (Hamburg)
- 1965 Reinhold Huckriede (Marburg)
- 1966 Wolfgang Krebs (Darmstadt)
- 1967 Wilhelm Meyer (Clausthal-Zellerfeld)
- 1968 not awarded
- 1969 Klaus Dieter Meischner (Göttingen)
- 1970 not awarded
- 1971 Reinhard Hesse , Horst Wachendorf
- 1972 Johannes Schroeder , Ernst Ott
- 1973 Friedrich Strauch , Wolfgang E. Krumbein
- 1974 Klaus Weber
- 1975 Volker Lorenz , Joachim Neugebauer
- 1976 Stefan Dürr
- 1977 Holger Kulke
- 1978 Thilo Bechstädt (Heidelberg)
- 1979 not awarded
- 1980 Hans Plum (Aachen)
- 1981 Ulf Bayer (Tübingen)
- 1982 Werner von Gosen (Hamburg), Walter Seemann (Hanover)
- 1983 not awarded
- 1984 not awarded
- 1985 Andreas Hoppe (Freiburg)
- 1986 Jean Thein (St. Augustin)
- 1987 Onno Oncken (Frankfurt), Jörg Mattner (Clausthal-Zellerfeld)
- 1988 Hans-Georg Herbig (Berlin)
- 1989 Gregor Borg (Halle), Werner U. Ehrmann (Bremerhaven)
- 1990 Bernhard Schulz (Erlangen)
- 1991 Gerhard Bohrmann (Kiel), Werner Ricken (Tübingen)
- 1992 Thomas Litt (Halle)
- 1993 Rolf Kilian (Tübingen)
- 1994 Andreas Dahmke (Bremen)
- 1995 Ute Gebhardt (Hamburg), Martin Meschede (Tübingen)
- 1996 Jonas Kley (Karlsruhe)
- 1997 Andreas Henk (Würzburg)
- 1998 Gernold Zulauf (Frankfurt)
- 1999 Heiko Hüneke (Greifswald), Matthias Zabel (Bremen)
- 2000 Bernd Pirrung (Bremerhaven), Harald Stollhofen (Würzburg)
- 2001 Traugott Scheytt (Berlin)
- 2002 Bernd Leiss (Göttingen)
- 2003 Thomas Weiß (Göttingen)
- 2004 Anke Friedrich (Potsdam)
- 2005 Jochen Kolb (Aachen)
- 2006 not awarded
- 2007 Cornelia Spiegel (Bremen)
- 2008 Stefan Back (Aachen)
- 2009 Ulrich Heimhofer (Bochum)
- 2010 Christoph Glotzbach (Hanover)
- 2011 Gösta Hoffmann (Muscat)
- 2012 Cornelius Fischer (Göttingen)
- 2013 Hauke Marquardt (Potsdam)
- Not awarded in 2014
- Not awarded in 2015
- 2017 Nils Moosdorf (Bremen)
- 2019 Christoph Grützner (Jena)
Web links
- Heinz-Gerd Röhling: 100 years of the Hermann Credner Foundation of the German Society for Geosciences. Geohistor. Blätter Berlin 21 (2011) pp. 109–141 (PDF, 2.3 MB). - Including the winners up to 2011.
- Hermann Credner Prize at the DGGV