Honors & Awards 2019
People from inside and outside the KIT who have rendered outstanding services to the research university in the Helmholtz Association were the focus of the "Honorary Evening of the President" on February 21, 2019.
The atmospheric evening ended with the honor of particularly deserving external sponsors: Philip Kurz (Executive Director of the Wüstenrot Foundation and Honorary Professor at KIT, honored for his great commitment in favor of the KIT Faculty of Architecture and the saai | Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering) and Achim Quitz (Chairman of the Executive Board of the Ernst Schömperlen Foundation and Chairman of the Executive Board of S&G Automobil AG, honored for the great commitment of the Ernst Schömperlen Foundation in favor of KIT) received the KIT Medal of Merit. Dr. Dieter Köhnlein, who has been head of the KIT Chamber Orchestra for many years, was appointed honorary citizen of KIT.
Honors from Friends and Sponsors of the KIT Foundation
The friends and sponsors of the KIT are committed - they support research, teaching, innovation, and academic life at the KIT and thus make a valuable contribution to positioning the KIT as an excellent research and teaching institution both nationally and internationally.
Many of them have been accompanying the KIT and its development for many years, often in close cooperation with the KIT Foundation, and repeatedly demonstrate their attachment to the institution. For this extraordinary commitment, the KIT presents annual honors and awards and would like to express its great gratitude in this way.
The KIT Foundation congratulates!
In the following, those honored persons are listed who have brought their commitment to KIT in cooperation with the KIT Foundation.
Honours & Awards 2018
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Honorary Senatorship
The president awarded Mr. Rainer Blickle the honorary senator title. Blickle is a shareholder of SEW-Eurodrive GmbH & Co. KG and chairman of the board of the SEW-Eurodrive Foundation. In 2013 he already received the KIT medal of merit. The SEW-Eurodrive Foundation promotes scientific work and findings in the field of technology and economics, such as research projects or guest professorships, and awards several Deutschlandstipendium scholarships every year. Thanks to the great commitment, the establishment of the foundation professorship "Electrotechnical and Information Technology Fundamentals of Functional Safety" is also made possible and the establishment of the "Learning and Application Center Mechatronics" at KIT is supported. The KIT Foundation was able to accept this major donation last year. |
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Honorary Citizenships
honorary citizen, and Martin Litschel, founder and member of the Board of Trustees of the Vector Foundation, as honorary citizen of KIT. Anja Schümann, Honorary Member of the Honorary Assembly of the Founders of the KIT Foundation, is involved with the Reinhard Frank Foundation at KIT in cooperation with the KIT Foundation, among others, in the student research laboratory, the international exchange program MINTernship, and the Study Center for Visually Impaired Persons (SZS). Thanks to the support, the SZS was able to purchase two tactile printers that are unique in Germany. Martin Litschel, member of the board of trustees of the KIT Foundation, has been supporting the Young Investigator Group "Green Mobility" at the Chair of Lightweight Construction Technology of KIT since 2014 in cooperation with the Vector Foundation. The group focuses on lightweight construction concepts for environmentally friendly and sustainable mobility. In addition, Litschel awards fifteen German scholarships at KIT every year and supports another ten students through the scholarship program "FundaMINT". In this way, he is committed to enabling high-performing students to exploit their potential. |
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Medal and Needle of Merit
With the medal of merit for his extraordinary commitment, the KIT President honored Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Müller, honorary professor at KIT and member of the board of directors of BBBank eG Karlsruhe. Müller is an honorary member of the Honorary Assembly of the KIT Foundation Founders and has also been supporting the newly established Investment Committee of the KIT Foundation since February 2017. Prof. Dr. Hans Helmut Bernhart, Emeritus of the KIT Institute for Water and River Development, was awarded the KIT's merit needle. Professor Bernhart provided great and decisive support in establishing the Prof. Emil Mosonyi Fund under the framework of the KIT Foundation. |
The KIT Foundation congratulates all honored persons!
Source and further information: KIT press release dated February 23, 2018: https://www.kit.edu/kit/23411.php (Urheber: swi / KIT)
Honours & Awards 2017
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Honorary Senatorship
The founder Dr. Wolfgang Eichelberger is the new honorary senator of the KIT. Vice President Thomas Hirth presented the award presented by the KIT Senate to the founding donor of the "Erika and Dr. Wolfgang Eichelberger Foundation", thus acknowledging his great merits. "By establishing the foundation in 2012, Mr. and Mrs. Eichelberger have laid the foundation stone for awarding scholarships and prizes to students and young scientists of the KIT faculties of physics and computer science. The outstanding and extraordinary commitment to the KIT, which has existed for many years, is to be adequately honored," says Vice President Hirth. Wolfgang Eichelberger studied physics at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), followed by a doctorate, which he also completed in Karlsruhe in 1969. Eichelberger, who was employed at BASF in Ludwigshafen from 1970 to 1996, initially worked for many years in data processing and scientific computer science, and initially initiated various developments such as a benchmark system for measuring and evaluating computing power or a dialog software on a time-sharing basis, as well as the configuration and establishment of the BASF research network. The „Erika und Dr. Wolfgang Eichelberger Stiftung“ is administered in trust by the KIT Foundation since 2017. Press Release of the KIT under: https://www.kit.edu/kit/22840.php |
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Medal of Merit
The managing partner of the Tuttlingen-based medical technology company KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG and founder of the KIT foundation, Dr. Sybill Storz, was awarded the KIT Medal of Merit for her many years of great commitment. Prof. Thomas Hirth, Vice President for Innovation and International Affairs, presented the award. "Science needs sustainable support - for outstanding research and teaching, a globally oriented culture of innovation, and a lively academic life. With this guiding principle, KIT established the KIT Foundation together with private individuals and companies five years ago. Sybill Storz has been a founding donor from the very beginning. In addition, she finances German scholarships for KIT students. We are very grateful to her for this great commitment. I am very pleased to award her with the KIT Medal of Merit," said Hirth at the award ceremony in Tuttlingen. KIT and KARL STORZ have also worked together on a number of research projects in recent years. Dr. Sybill Storz emphasized the importance of the dialog between universities and industry: "I am extremely pleased about this very special award and would like to thank the KIT Senate and Presidium for this recognition. I congratulate KIT and the KIT Foundation on their outstanding work in research, teaching, and innovation. I am pleased that we, as a technology leader, are able to maintain close contact with a renowned institution like KIT and thus combine and mutually reinforce the expertise of science and industry." The KIT Stiftung congratulates! KIT press release of 7.3.2017 under: http://www.kit.edu/kit/21560.php
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