Otto Klung Foundation
The Otto Klung Foundation is a legal foundation under civil law based in Berlin . Otto Klung (1893–1968) was a media clerk who achieved financial success in Berlin, especially after the Second World War. Throughout his life he is said to have regretted that he did not have the opportunity to complete a further scientific course that would have enabled him to actively shape progress in science and society.
The Otto Klung Foundation at the Free University of Berlin , founded in 1972 from the legacy of Otto Klung , pursues the purpose of the foundation to promote science and research by giving annual alternations to outstanding younger German physics and chemistry scientists who are still 40 years old should not have exceeded, the Otto Klung Prize, today Klung Wilhelmy Science Prize , is awarded.
According to the statutes of September 23, 2002, the foundation supervisory authority approved the award winners on November 6, 2002, by a commission to be formed by professors from the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry at Freie Universität Berlin, supplemented by professors from other universities, with suggestions be included in decision-making by specialist colleagues at home and abroad as well as scientific reports from top international researchers.
From 1970 to 1996 Horst Klung (nephew of Otto Klung), from 1996 to 2011 Kurt Hammer (former Chancellor of the Free University of Berlin) and from 2012 Peter Lange (Chancellor of the Free University of Berlin until the end of 2015) was the chairman of the Otto Klung Board. Foundation. Since 2001, the Otto Klung Foundation has been awarding the Otto Klung Weberbank Prize together with the Weberbank gGmbH development company, now the Weberbank Foundation.
The cooperation was joined by a private patron and, from 2007, the Dr. Wilhelmy Foundation , so that the extended Klung Wilhelmy Weberbank Prize is one of the most prestigious scientific awards for young scientists in Germany.
At the end of 2013, the Weberbank Foundation ended the cooperation. The Otto Klung Foundation, the Dr. Wilhelmy Foundation and the chairmen of the Chemistry and Physics Prize Committee have agreed on the future name of the Klung Wilhelmy Science Prize. The provisions of the statutes of the Otto Klung Foundation regarding the selection process for outstanding young scientists in physics or chemistry, alternating annually by volunteer experts from universities and research institutions, have been updated.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.klung-wilhelmy-wissenschafts-preis.de/stifter/index.html
- ↑ http://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/organisation/preis/index.html
- ↑ http://www.klung-wilhelmy-wissenschafts-preis.de/wahlverfahren/index.html
- ↑ http://www.fu-berlin.de/campusleben/campus/2015/151222-endung-peter-lange/index.html
- ↑ http://www.klung-wilhelmy-wissenschafts-preis.de/kontakt/index.html