Karl Heinrich Heitfeld Prize
The Karl Heinrich Heitfeld Prize for Applied Geosciences is a science prize awarded by the GeoUnion Alfred Wegener Foundation for special achievements in the aforementioned subject area.
The award goes back to a foundation of the namesake Karl-Heinrich Heitfeld in 1995, it is endowed with 10,000 euros (as of 2014) and is awarded every three years for outstanding individual achievements or for the outstanding oeuvre of a geoscientist - especially in the first and middle life and professional phase - awarded.
Board of Trustees for Awarding the Prize
Proposals for the award of the Heitfeld Prize can be submitted by individuals or groups of people (institutions, scientific societies). The Board of Trustees for the Heitfeld Prize, which the GeoUnion has set up for this purpose and which consists of five members (according to the statutes, two geologists, a geophysicist, a mineralogist and a representative of another discipline of geosciences), decides on the proposals.
Award winners
- 1995 Fritz Reuter , Freiberg
- 1997 Franz K. Goerlich , Wachtberg
- 1999 Detlev Leythäuser , Cologne
- 2002 Karl Fuchs , Karlsruhe
- 2004 Peter Grathwohl , Tübingen
- 2007 Michael Kühn , Aachen
- 2010 Maria-Theresia Schafmeister , Greifswald
- 2013 Andreas Dahmke , Kiel