List of honorary doctorates from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

The list of honorary doctors from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology includes all persons who have received the honorary doctorate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and its predecessor organizations, namely the TH Karlsruhe and the University of Karlsruhe.

list

Hermann Zimmermann (awarded 1901)
Gustav Friedrich Herrmann (awarded 1903)
Josef Stübben (awarded 1904)
Max Honsell (awarded on November 21, 1906)
Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown (awarded 1911)
Carl Benz (awarded on November 25, 1914)
Albert Hofmann (architect) (awarded 1917)
Luise of Prussia (1838–1923) (awarded in 1917)
Paul Clemen (awarded July 27, 1918)
Ernst Heckel (awarded 1918)
Fritz Raschig (awarded 1918)
Max Rudeloff (awarded on November 25, 1918)
Friedrich August Haselwander (awarded 1920)
Rudolf Gelpke (engineer) (awarded 1920)
George Henry de Thierry (awarded 1920)
Felix Deutsch (awarded 1921)
Karl Lohmeyer (awarded 1921)
Hermann Hummel (awarded 1921)
Jacob Klein (industrialist) (awarded 1921)
Reinhold Rüdenberg (awarded 1921)
Franz Himstedt (awarded 1922)
Karl Albiker (awarded 1925)
Paul Pfeiffer (chemist) (awarded 1925)
Ernst Julius Cohen (awarded 1925)
Heinrich Brenzinger (awarded 1926)
Max Buchner (chemist) (awarded 1927)
Julius Finter (awarded 1928)
Arthur Binz (1929)
Otto Blum (awarded 1931)
Oskar Waldrich (awarded 1933)
Prosper L'Orange (awarded 1939)
Arnold Eucken (awarded 1945)
Franz Dischinger (awarded 1948)
Otto Henninger (awarded 1948)
Konrad Rühl (awarded 1950)
Reinhard Demoll (awarded 1950)
Rudolf Fettweis (awarded in 1950)
Max Strutt (awarded 1950)
Lothar Nordheim (awarded 1951)
Erich Reuleaux (awarded 1951)
Max Trautz (awarded 1952)
Erich Lohmeyer (awarded 1956)
Richard Döcker (awarded on July 28, 1958)
Jakob Ackeret (awarded 1958)
Siegfried Meurer (awarded on February 11, 1959)
Werner Heisenberg (awarded on February 6, 1961)
Werner Nestel (awarded on February 19, 1962 by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering)
Heinrich Welker (awarded 1962)
Kurt Martin (art historian) (awarded 1964)
Udo Wegner (awarded 1964)
Arthur Thomas Ippen (awarded on February 21, 1967)
Hermann Beer (awarded 1970)
Karl Adam (rowing coach) (awarded 1972)
Ferdinand Lewald (awarded 1972)
Franz Pacher (awarded in 1975 by the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Surveying)
Hunter Rouse (awarded 1975)
Albert Vierling (engineer) (awarded 1975)
Charles A. Whitten (awarded July 9, 1975 by the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Surveying)
Heinz König (awarded on May 18, 1979)
Walter Isard (awarded 1979)
Arno Paul Bäumer (awarded 1982)
Heinz Maecker (awarded 1983)
Charles Massonet (awarded 1985)
Volker Aschoff (awarded on June 11, 1986)
Heinz Duddeck (awarded 1988)
János Aczél (awarded on August 13, 1990)
Merton H. Miller (awarded December 14, 1990)
Ewald Wicke (awarded on June 16, 1991)
Raymond Redheffer (awarded on November 22, 1991 by the Faculty of Mathematics)
Richard S. Varga (awarded November 22, 1991)
Leopold Horner (awarded in 1995 by the Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences)
Rudolf Sigl (awarded on June 14, 1995 by the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Surveying)
Fany Solter (awarded 2001)
Hermann Maurer (awarded on May 8, 2002 by the Faculty of Economics)
Hans-Werner Hector (awarded on November 25, 2003 by the Faculty of Mathematics)
Tomi Ungerer (awarded in February 2004 by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Hal Varian (awarded February 1, 2006 by the School of Economics)
Anneliese Knoop-Graf (awarded on April 26, 2006 by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Martin Grötschel (awarded on September 8, 2006 by the Faculty of Economics)
Klaus Tschira (awarded on February 8, 2010 by the Faculty of Computer Science)
Klaus Müllen (awarded 2010)
Ingo Wolff (awarded 2010)
Thomas Renner (Manager) (awarded May 2011)
Thomas Ottmann (awarded on June 27, 2011 by the Faculty of Computer Science)
Roland Mack (awarded 2013)
Peter Janich (awarded in 2016)
Alexander Gerst (awarded on July 12, 2019 by the Faculty of Physics and the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Geo- and Environmental Sciences)
Hasso Plattner (awarded 2020)

Date of award unknown:

literature

Fridericana Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe: Personnel and course catalog winter semester 1942/1943

Individual evidence

^ Kurt Seitz: Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Geodetic Institute (1868–2018) . KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe, 2018, p. 359
^ Kurt Seitz: Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Geodetic Institute (1868–2018) . KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe, 2018, p. 359
↑ A look into space : Alexander Gerst inspires KIT at kit.edu

[1] Kurt Seitz: Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Geodetic Institute (1868–2018) . KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe, 2018, p. 359

[2] Kurt Seitz: Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Geodetic Institute (1868–2018) . KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe, 2018, p. 359

[3] A look into space : Alexander Gerst inspires KIT at kit.edu