Awards and honors

Award for teachers in primary schools

To promote chemistry in science lessons at primary schools, the
The prize, endowed with €1,000 and sponsored by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, has been awarded since 2009 to primary school teachers who have distinguished themselves through exceptional achievements in strengthening the scientific and technical components of general education, particularly those related to chemistry.

Award winner 2025: Mrs. Susanne Grammel

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Friedrich Stromeyer Award

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

awardee 2025: Dr. Erhard Irmer

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Manfred and Wolfgang Flad Award

The prize, endowed with € 4,000 and sponsored by the Dr. Flad Institute, will be awarded

 

• for particularly successful experimental lectures at the annual meetings of the Division,
• and/or for the experimental development of a scientific field with regard to training, teaching and instruction
• and/or for the development of a novel experiment for chemical education .

The prize is awarded every two years.

awardee 2025: Prof. Dr. Stefan Schwarzer

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Heinrich Roessler Award

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

awardee 2024: Mr. StD Jürgen Nikolaus Kopp

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Honorary members of the Division

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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