Rudolf Kellermann Prize

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The Rudolf Kellermann Prize for the History of Technology is a science prize donated by Rudolf Kellermann in 1967 to promote the history of technology, which was last awarded in 2002.

history

The entrepreneur Kellermann donated this award in 1967 six years before his death. It was endowed with DM 3,000 and was awarded until 2002 by the division " VDI Beruf und Gesellschaft" for the best German-language, diploma and master's thesis, dissertation, habilitation thesis or other scientific work of the past year in the field of the history of technology .

Award winners

  • 1968: Wilfried Seibicke , TECHNOLOGY. Attempt of a history of the word family around τέχνη in Germany from the 16th century to around 1830
  • 1971: Ivo Schneider , The proportional circle - an analog computing instrument of the past
  • 1974: Evelyn Kroker , The World Exhibitions in the 19th Century: Proof of Industrial Performance, Competitive Behavior and Communication Function taking into account the coal and steel industry of the Ruhr area between 1851 and 1880
  • 1975: Lothar Suhling , The Seigerhüttenprocess, the technology of Kupferseigern based on the early metallurgical literature
  • 1976: Rainer Stahlschmidt , Sources and Issues of a German Technical History from the Early 20th Century to 1945
  • 1977: Lars U. Scholl , engineers in early industrialization: state and private technicians.
  • 1982: Ulrich Wengenroth , corporate strategies and technical progress. The German and British steel industry 1865–1895
  • 1985: Volker Schmidtchen
  • 1988: Hartwig Paulsen , The development of construction in mechanical engineering in the mirror of technical magazines, 1917–1937
  • 1991 (Prize for 1990): Helmut Maier , Erwin Marx (1893–1980), engineering scientists in Braunschweig, and research and development in the field of electrical energy transmission over long distances between 1918 and 1950
  • 1992 (price for 1991): Klaus-Dieter Herbst , on the development of the meridian circle 1700–1850, taking into account the interrelationship between astronomy, astro-technology and technology
  • 1993 (price for 1992): Matthias Heymann : Missed hopes and missed opportunities. The history of wind energy use 1890–1990 // Marcus Popplow : From machina to machine? For the use of lat. Machina in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period.
  • 1994 (Prize for 1993): Hans-Liudger Dienel : Industry and University. Interactions between industrial refrigeration and technical thermodynamics in Germany and the United States, 1890–1930.
  • 1995 (Prize for 1994): David Gugerli : Streams of speech and electrification. Attempt at methodological justification.
  • 1996 (Prize for 1995): Traude Löbert : The Upper Rhine Correction in Baden. On the environmental history of the 19th century // Olav Vollstedt : Machines for the country. Agricultural technology and the manufacturing industry in Schleswig-Holstein in transition 1800–1867.
  • 1997 (Prize for 1996): Ruth Stanley : Armament Modernization through Science Migration? German armaments specialists in Argentina and Brazil 1947–1963.
  • 1998 (1997 Prize): Luitgard Marshall , In the Shadow of Chemical Synthesis: Industrial Biotechnology in Germany (1900–1970).
  • 1999 (Prize for 1998): Michael Friedewald : The computer as a tool and medium: The intellectual and technical roots of the personal computer (= Aachen contributions to the history of science and technology in the 20th century , volume 3). GNT Verlag for the History of Science and Technology, Berlin / Diepholz 1999, ISBN 3-928186-47-7 (Dissertation Technical University Aachen 1999, 497 pages with illustrations, 21 cm).
  • 2000 (Prize for 1999): Not awarded
  • 2001 (Prize for 2000): Christoph Maria Merki , The bumpy triumphal march of the automobile 1895–1930. To motorize road traffic in France, Germany and Switzerland
  • 2002 (Prize for 2001): Thomas Kreft , The medieval ironworks in the Duchy of Berg and in the southern county of Mark

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In memoriam Dr.-Ing. Eh Rudolf Kellermann 1902 - 2002 ( Memento from February 29, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 24 kB)
  2. ^ VDI Prize for the History of Technology ( Memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Computerwoche 49/1990 , December 7, 1990