Senator Lothar Danner Medal
The Senator Lothar Danner Medal is an annual award from the Federation against Alcohol and Drugs in Road Traffic (BADS) for people who have made a special contribution to road safety . It was donated in 1975 in memory of the founder of the association Lothar Danner . The prize is only awarded on an honorary basis and is not linked to any monetary amount.
Award winners
- 1975: Robert Stromberger , television writer
- 1976: Horst Ludwig Riemer , Minister for Economy, Medium-Sized Enterprises and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1977: Horst Seefeld , Vice President of the European Parliament
- 1978: Walter Krauland , director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Free University of Berlin
- 1979: Richard Spiegel , judge at the Federal Court of Justice and President of the German Traffic Court
- 1980: Klaus Althoff , lawyer and chairman of the Bruderhilfe
- 1981: Heinz Eyrich , Minister of Justice of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- 1982: Kurt Rebmann , Attorney General
- 1983: Sibylle Nägele , radio journalist
- 1984: Hans-Joachim Wagner , Director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at Saarland University
- 1985: Hermann Friker , President of the Police Headquarters in Lower Bavaria / Upper Palatinate
- 1986: Robert Ruder , State Secretary for the Interior of Baden-Württemberg
- 1987: Joachim Gerchow , Managing Director of the Center for Forensic Medicine at the University of Frankfurt am Main
- 1988: Ulrich Heifer , Director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Bonn
- 1989: Werner Winkler , head of the medical-psychological institute at TÜV Hannover
- 1990: Heinrich Praxenthaler , President of the Federal Highway Research Institute
- 1991: Hannskarl Salger , Vice President of the Federal Court of Justice
- 1992: Robert C. Oaks , Commander in Chief of the US Air Forces in Europe and Commander of the Allied Air Forces Central Europe
- 1993: Steffen Heitmann , State Minister of Justice of the Free State of Saxony
- 1994: Frieder Birzele , Minister of the Interior of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- 1995: Michael Borchers , traffic officer in the Ministry of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt
- 1996: Karl-Heinz Lenz , President of the Federal Highway Research Institute
- 1997: Hans-Joachim Bauer , President of the Thuringian Higher Regional Court
- 1998: Kay Nehm , Attorney General
- 1999: Günther Reinhardt , President of the German Society for Traffic Medicine a. D.
- 2000: Robert Büchelhofer , Member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG
- 2001: Manfred Möller , Academic Director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at Saarland University, Homburg / Saar
- 2002: Günther Beckstein , Bavarian State Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister
- 2003: Wolfgang Eisenmenger , head of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
- 2004: Erwin Hetger , State Police President of Baden-Württemberg
- 2005: Editorial team for advice and service from NDR 1, Radio Niedersachsen
- 2006: Judge at the Federal Court of Justice Kurt Rüdiger Maatz
- 2007: Rainer Mattern , Medical Director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine and Traffic Medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Clinic
- 2008: Franz Josef Jung , Federal Minister of Defense
- 2009: Karl Peter Bruch , Interior Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate
- 2010: Bernd Merbitz , State Police President of Saxony, on behalf of the police in Saxony
- 2011: Hansjürgen Bratzke , Professor of Forensic Medicine at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
- 2012: Gerold Kauert , former director of the Institute for Toxicology at the Center for Forensic Medicine at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt / Main
- 2013: Kurt Bodewig , President of the German Traffic Guard and former Federal Minister. D.
- 2014: Lutz Müller , Police President of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
- 2015: Aktion BOB , an action against alcohol in road traffic
- 2016: Walter Eichendorf , President of the German Road Safety Council
- 2017: Drägerwerk AG, product management , devices for alcohol measurement and drug detection
- 2018: Hans-Jürgen Gebhardt , specialist lawyer for traffic and criminal law
- 2019: Thomas Daldrup , emeritus head of forensic toxicology at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Düsseldorf