Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation

The Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation was founded in 1987 in memory of the physicist and Siemens board member Karl Heinz Beckurts who was murdered by RAF terrorists . The sponsors are the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers and Siemens AG . The foundation's capital is 1.5 million euros.

Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize

In the spirit of Beckurt, who advocated collaboration between science and industry, the foundation annually awards the Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize, each endowed with a maximum of 30,000 euros, to up to three scientists who have provided impetus for industrial innovations.

Award winners

1989: Horst Albach (Koblenz), José Luís Encarnação (Darmstadt), Albrecht Fleckenstein and Gisa Fleckenstein-Grün (Freiburg im Breisgau)
1990: Gerd Herziger (Cologne), Karl-Heinz Hoffmann (Munich) and Martin Grötschel (Berlin), Dieter Oesterhelt (Munich)
1991: Hans-Herbert Brintzinger (Constance) and Walter Kaminsky (Hamburg), Hans-Georg Musmann (Hanover), Dietmar Temmler (Frankfurt (Oder))
1992: Peter H. Seeburg (Heidelberg), Dieter Seitzer (Erlangen), Sigmar Wittig (Karlsruhe)
1993: Klaus Brockhoff (Kiel), Jens Frahm (Göttingen), Herbert Gajewski (Berlin)
1994: Kurt Mehlhorn (Saarbrücken), Stefan Miltenyi (Bergisch Gladbach) and Andreas Radbruch (Cologne), Frieder W. Scheller (Potsdam)
1995: Hermann Bujard (Heidelberg), Arnd Greiling and Wolfgang Stolz (Marburg / Lahn), Helmut Klausing (Munich)
1996: Timm Anke (Kaiserslautern) and Wolfgang Steglich (Munich), Gerhard Hirzinger (Oberpfaffenhofen), Wolfgang Schlegel (Heidelberg)
1997: Wilhelm Barthlott (Bonn), Karl Joachim Ebeling (Ulm), Brigitte Wittmann-Liebold and Christian Wurzel (Berlin and Teltow)
1998: Lutz Claes (Ulm), Christoph von der Malsburg and Werner von Seelen (Bochum), Jürgen Wolfrum (Heidelberg)
1999: Heinz-Otto Peitgen (Bremen), Roland Wiesendanger (Hamburg), Lothar Willmitzer (Golm)
2000: Günter Kappler (Munich), Andreas Plückthun (Zurich), Wolfgang Wahlster (Saarbrücken)
2001: Wolfgang Baumeister (Munich), Karsten Buse (Bonn)
2002: Christoph Bräuchle (Munich), Stefan Hell (Göttingen), Walter Krenkel (Stuttgart)
2003: Michael Karas (Frankfurt am Main) and Franz Hillenkamp (Münster), Thomas Lengauer (Saarbrücken), Wilma K. Weyrather , Michael Krämer and Michael Scholz (Darmstadt)
2004: Markus Amann (Munich) and Markus Ortsiefer (Garching), Gerhard Höfle and Hans Reichenbach (Braunschweig), Hans Lehrach
2005: Friedrich Kremer (Leipzig), Arne Skerra (Munich), Clemens Zierhofer (Innsbruck)
2006: Johannes Buchmann (Darmstadt), Harald Rose (Darmstadt), Knut Urban (Jülich), Maximilian Haider (Heidelberg)
2007: Thomas Tuschl (New York City), Axel Ullrich (Martinsried)
2008: Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (Bochum), Thomas Scheibel (Bayreuth), Peter Seeberger (Potsdam)
2009: Franz Josef Gießibl (Regensburg), Eberhart Zrenner (Tübingen)
2010: Stephan Lutgen , Adrian Avramescu , Désirée Queren (Regensburg), Peter Hegemann (Berlin), Georg Nagel (Würzburg), Ernst Bamberg (Frankfurt am Main)
2011: Thomas Wiegand , Detlev Marpe , Heiko Schwarz (Berlin)
2012: Uwe Franke , Stefan Gehrig , Clemens Rabe (Sindelfingen)
2013: Markus Gross (Zurich)
2014: Andreas Marx (Constance)
2015: Oliver Ambacher (Freiburg i. Br.)
2016: Kai Johnsson (Berlin)
2017: Christian Theobalt (Saarbrücken)
2018: no award
2019: Michael Backes (Saarbrücken)

Teacher award

The Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation also awards the Teacher Prize of the Helmholtz Association “ to educators who have made an outstanding contribution to encouraging their students to do their own scientific work ”.

Web links

Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation

Individual evidence

^ Abendzeitung Germany: RAF attack in 1986: Siemens commemorates Beckurts board member - Abendzeitung Munich. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk Annette Walter: Widow of the RAF victim: "The rights of the victims are neglected" . November 28, 2013 ( br.de [accessed January 20, 2020]).
↑ Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize goes to Professor Michael Backes. Saarland Informatics Campus, accessed on December 1, 2019 .
^ Winner of the teacher award of the Helmholtz Association

[1] Abendzeitung Germany: RAF attack in 1986: Siemens commemorates Beckurts board member - Abendzeitung Munich. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .

[2] Bayerischer Rundfunk Annette Walter: Widow of the RAF victim: "The rights of the victims are neglected" . November 28, 2013 ( br.de [accessed January 20, 2020]).

[3] Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize goes to Professor Michael Backes. Saarland Informatics Campus, accessed on December 1, 2019 .

[4] Winner of the teacher award of the Helmholtz Association