Awards and honors

Award for teachers in primary schools

To promote chemistry in general education at elementary schools, the
€ 1,000 and donated by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt. Since 2009, it has been awarded to primary school teachers who have distinguished themselves through special achievements in strengthening the scientific and technical parts of general studies, in particular the chemistry-related parts, at primary schools.

awardee 2022: Mr. Bernhard Lanz

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Friedrich Stromeyer Award

The prize, endowed with €3,000 and donated by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, is intended to promote chemistry lessons. Since 1982, it has been awarded to teachers who have distinguished themselves through special achievements in the field of chemistry teaching in schools.

awardee 2022: Mr. StD Martin Schwab

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Manfred and Wolfgang Flad Award

The €4,000 prize donated by the Dr. Flad, is awarded for particularly successful experimental lectures at annual conferences of the Division, for the experimental development of a specialist area with regard to training, teaching and teaching or for the development of a new type of experiment for chemical education . The prize has been awarded annually since 2017.

awardee 2022: StR Stephan Matussek

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Heinrich Roessler Award

The prize, endowed with €4,000 and the Heinrich Roessler Medal and donated by Degussa AG, today Evonik Industries AG, Essen, has been awarded to a personality from school, university, industry or public life for special services to chemical education since 1984. The prize is named after Degussa's first technical director, who made pioneering achievements in the field of scientific education and vocational training in the 19th century. The prize is awarded every two years.

Winner 2022: Mrs. Dr. Ilona Siehr

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honorary members of the Division

The GDCh Division for chemical education has awarded honorary membership to the personalities listed below, who have been involved in the Division in an outstanding manner since it was founded in 1971 and have thus rendered outstanding services to chemistry didactics and chemical education :

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Previous prices of the Division

Hans Herloff Inhoffen Prize

Donated by the Schering Foundation
The prize was awarded in 2005 and 2007 to young European researchers who were in the process of academic qualification, already in their qualification phase - e. B. PhD or habilitation - had completed or reached a first professional position.

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Johann Friedrich Gmelin Prize

Donated by Wiley-VCH, Weinheim
The prize was awarded from 1984 to 2003 to young people who have worked to improve chemistry lessons.

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