Awards

Fritz-Scheffer-Award

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Fritz Scheffer * 20.03.1899 + 01.07.1979

1945 bis 1967	Director of the Institute of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science at the University of Göttingen
18 Jahre	President of the "German Soil Science Society"

 

Recipients of the Fritz-Scheffer-Award

1987   Gerhard Welp, Bonn	1989   Jörg Bachmann, Hannover
1990   Reinhold Jahn, Hohenheim	1991   Kurt Roth, Zürich
1994   Thilo Streck, Braunschweig	1995   Andreas Papritz, Zürich
1996   Petra Döll, Berlin	1997   Ludger Herrmann, Hohenheim
1998   Daniel Grolimund, Zürich	1999   Bernhard Jene, Hohenheim
2001   Markus Deurer, Hannover	2003   Wulf Amelung, Berlin
2006   Dominik Bänninger, Basel	2007   Robert Mikutta, Halle
2009   Thilo Eickhorst, Bremen	2009   Wibke Markgraf, Kiel
2011   Jessica Dittmar, Düren	2012   Jens Kruse, Rostock
2013   Michel Bechtold, Jülich	2015  Michaela Dippold, Göttingen
2017 Eva Kröner, Landau 2021 Kenton Stutz, Freiburg 2021 Steffen Schweizer, München	2019  Sara Bauke, Bonn 2021 Maik Lucas, Halle/Saale 2022 Florian Schneider, Braunschweig

 

Fritz-Scheffer-Sonderpreis anlässlich seines 100sten Geburtstages (1999): Werner Gräsle, Kiel

Fritz-Scheffer-Sonderpreis anl. der Deutsch-Polnischen Tagung in Frankfurt/Oder (2003): Jósef Chojnicki, Warschau

 

Statutes

 § 1
The German Soil Science Society (DBG) awards the FRIZ-SCHEFFER-AWARD to
young and talented scientific researchers for their outstanding achievements.
The award consists of a certificate along with a two thousand five hundred Euro prize. The
prize will be awarded by the President of the DBG at an appropriate event which will be
announced in the DBG Newsletter. Special awards may be given under certain circumstances
or for specific reasons.
§ 2
The prize is awarded on the basis of published dissertations, habilitation or publications in
international journals as well as for outstanding films, media appearances and exhibitions of
pedological content and great educational value. All of the doctoral theses, habilitations
publications and exhibits that are proposed for the award must be assigned according to their
content to at least one DBG Commission or an assigned working group according to their
content.
§ 3
The presenting of the award will be administered by the President of the DBG at an
appropriate ceremony for the event. The winner is to give a public speech on his/her work
during the ceremony. In exceptional cases, the prize may be shared if the work was created in
the close cooperation of several scholars/scientists.
§ 4
Proposals for the awarding of the prize may be submitted by DBG members to the President
of the DBG. Applications on one’s own behalf are not possible. The application must be
submitted to the President in writing along with four copies of the work to be taken into
consideration. Documents enclosed with the application shall include a detailed justification
and scientific assessment, the list of publications and a detailed curriculum vitae of the
candidate. In coordination with the responsible chairman/chairwoman of the Commission, the
President of the DBG selects three evaluators from within country or from abroad. The
written evaluations shall be prepared within 12 weeks. In the event that an evaluator is unable
to submit the evaluation or observe the given time frame, a new evaluator is to be appointed.
§ 5
The President shall submit a drafted decision to the Extended Board during a meeting
following the submission. In the event that several applications are submitted from different
Commissions, the Extended Board decides on the basis of scientific criteria (originality,
advancement of knowledge, form of presentation, informative value, and educational value)
and the importance of the work or exposé. This decision must be made in the Extended Board
unanimously. In the case of equal evaluation results for several candidates, preference is given
to the youngest scientist. The vote can be carried out electronically on a protected web page
accessible to the Extended Board.
§ 6
The recipient will be informed in written form by the President of the DBG about the decision
and the ensuing obligation to give a speech or presentation on the occasion of the next
suitable DBG event. Members of the DBG will be informed about the speech or presentation
in appropriate form.
§ 7
In the event that no application is accepted, there is no obligation to award the prize (and the
funds) additionally in the following years.
Göttingen, August 2015