Otto Weerth Prize

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The Otto Weerth Prize has been awarded since 2000 by the Natural Science and History Association for the State of Lippe eV (NHV) in memory of its long-term chairman Otto Weerth .

The aim of the award is to promote young scientists, stimulate scientific research and research on prehistory, history, regional studies, folklore and art history of the former state of Lippe, and strengthen relationships between the region and the universities in East Westphalia-Lippe. The prize of at least 2,000 euros for outstanding scientific work in the above-mentioned areas is awarded to young scientists whose work has not yet been published elsewhere or has not been awarded prizes.

The Otto Weerth Prize is one of the most important awards in the field of Westphalian-Lippe regional history. Other awards include the Gustav Engel Prize , the History Prize of the Mindener Geschichtsverein , the Ignaz Theodor Liborius Meyer Prize , the Karl Zuhorn Prize and the Jodocus Hermann Nünning Prize .

Award winners

  • 2000 Annette Hennigs (doctoral thesis: Society and mobility. A social history of the streets using the case study Lippe 1680–1820. )
  • 2002 Cornelia Halm (PhD thesis: Conventus sororum de ordine predicatorum in Lemego. Studies on the Dominican convent of St. Marien in Lemgo . )
  • 2004 Roland Siekmann (doctoral thesis: Unique Senne. On the cultural history of the perception of a peripheral landscape. )
  • 2007 Wiebke Lisner (PhD thesis: The guardians of the nation? Midwives in the time of National Socialism. Using the example of the state of Lippe. )
  • 2009 Claudia Strieter (doctoral thesis: Negotiating guilds. Possibilities and limits of corporate self-determination in Lippstadt, Soest and Detmold. )
  • 2012 Julia Schöning (Master's thesis: The German scientist Wilhelm Teudt . A folkish lay researcher on the way from the Keplerbund to the SS-Ahnenerbe. )
  • 2016 Florian Lueke (PhD thesis: "Migrant workers, footballers - and also Jews ...". Cultural transfer, exclusion and integration in sport in the Lippe region in the 19th and 20th centuries. )

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