AWARDS OF NATIONAL PRIZE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 164
• Publication Date: April 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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AWARDS OF NATIONAL PRIZE FOR SCIE11CE AND TECHNOLOGY
The list of National Prize award winners follows:
Prof Dr Eilhard Mitscherlich, professor agricultural science at Humboldt
University in Berlin and member of the German Academy of Sciences, for his
scientific experiments on the improvement of agricultural yields.
Prof Dr Erhard Schmidt, professor mathematics at Humboldt University in
Berlin.snd member of the German Academy of Sciences, for his scientific re-
aearch, particularly in the field of linear and nonlinear integral equations and
on the isoperimetric problem.
Dr Johannes Harting, research director in chie: of the Carl Zeiss Yorks and
the Association of People-Owned Optical Enterprises in Jena, for the creation of
the practical and theoretical prerequisites for the reconstruction of the Zeiss
plant.
Adolt Hennecke, black-coal miner, foreman at the Karl Liebknecht (people-
owned) mine in Oelsnitz and initiator of the activist movement beari a his name.
Prof Dr Heinrich Barkhausen, professor of by amperage technique and member
of the German Academy of Sciences, for his scientific investigations.
Prof Dr Hans Cloos, professor of geology at Bonn University, for his out-
standing contribution as founder of the study of granite tectonics.
Prof Dr Friedrich Hund,profeasor.of thearetlcal physics at the Friedrich
Schiller University in Jena and member of the German Academy of Sciences, for his
scientific contributions in quantum physics.
Dr Hans Knoell, director of the microbiological institute of the people-owned
Schott and Associates plant in Jena, for the development of processes for the manu-
facture cf antibiotics, particularly penicillin.
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Collective for Chemistry
Prof Dr Ernst Schmitz, director of the arsawinol plant of the people-owned
Fahlberg-List plant in Magdeburg, for pioneer work in the production of arsaminol.
Dr Robert Griesabach, director of the scientific laboratories of the Wolfen
Film Factory, for the development of various types of Novatit.
Dr Johannes Nelles, plant manager of the Buna Works in Schkopau, for his ex-
emplary achievements in the development of bona production.
Dr Erich Reissman, chief of the inorganic division of the Wolfen Film Factory,
for his achievements in the production of sulfuric acid from gypsum.
Dr Bernhard Schaetzel, chemist in the Heinrich Fall f2einrichshall J people-
owned Alcid plant, for the production of phosphorus fertilizers.
Collective for Foundries and Metallurgical Installations
Prof Dr Sedlaczek, director of the people-owned Max Huette metallurgical plant
in Unterwellenborn, for his achievements in the expansion of the plant.
Helmut Hensel, manager of the Max Huette plant in Unterwellenborn, for his ex-
emplary efforts in developing the competitive movement in this metallurgical plant.
Otto Ringel, section chief in the Max Huette plant, for outstanding organiza-
tion of labor in the shipping and communication system in the plant.
Erich Pfroetschner, plant manager of the Riesa people-owned steel and rolling
mills, for outstanding services in the construction of the plant.
Karl Pilling, master founder at the Riesa Steel and Rolling Mills, for initia-
tive displayed in the development of the competitive movement in the plant,
Richard Schmidt, master smelter in the Hennigsdorf Steel and Rolling Mills for
his achievements as first activist in the metallurgical industry.
Dr Otto Krueger, section chief in the Thale Iron and Foundry Works, for his
achievements in the development of substitute materials for the enameling process.
Prof Dr Becker's Collective
Prof Dr Gustav Becker, director of the Institute for Plant Cultivation, in
charge of the Quedlinburg seed-cultivation operations
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inspector and director of seed growing, Dr Hans-Joachim Mueller, Dr Alfred Schneider,
Dr Georg Soergel, biological and scientific collaborators, for pioneer work in plant
cultivation and for the creation of new methods of work cooperation among scientists,
growers, technicians. and laborers.
Prof Dr Walter Grotrian, observer in chief at the astrophysical observatory in
Potsdam, for his scientific contributions in the, sphere of astrophysics and nuclear
spectroscopy.
Prof Dr Karl Kegel, professor of scientific mining at the Freiberg Mining Acad-
emy, fir his scientific investigations in connection with the mining of brown coal.
Prof Dr Juergen Kuczynski, professor of economic history at Humboldt University
in Berlin, for his investigations concerning the status of the working classes and
their historical development.
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Fred Oelssner, political economist in Berlin, for his comprehensive pres-
entation of the theory and history of economic crises.
Prof Dr Hans Stubbe, professor of general and specialized genetics at the
University of Halle and member of the German Academy of Sciences, for his re-
search in plant cultivation.
Dr Erich Correns, plant director of the people-owned Thueringen Cellulose
Factories in Schwarza and director of the fiber research institute of the Adad-
e ' of Sciences in Teltow-Seehof, for his scientific contributions in the sphere
of fiber research and his participation in the development of the cellulose
plant in Schwarza.
Karl Nitzsche, foreman in the people-owned Uroma glass factory, for his
services in connection with the preservation of the German clock industry.
Paul Sack, bricklayers' foreman in the people-owned Stralsund shipyards,
for the development of new productive working methods in the building industry.
Collective for Coal Mining
Dr Otto Fleischer, technical director of the Black Coal Administration in
Zwickau, for his performance in the development of the Zwickau-Oelsnitz coal-
mining area.
Erich Burdach, engineer, technical director of the Association of People-
Owned Brown Coal mining Installations in Welzow, for the development of snrface
mining and the production of briquettes.
Gerhard Boehnisch, manager of the dump at the Ammendorf plant of the. Brown
Coal Administration in Merseburg, for the introduction of new working methods and
the development of the activist and competitive movements.
Stanislaw; Szymanski, foreman in the Tatkraft plant in Senftenberg, for his
active participation in the rehabilitation of the brown coal industry in Branden-
burg.
Collective for Copper Mining and Nonferrous Metal Processing
Josef Wujciak, miner employed in the Mansfeld slate mining installation, and
Fritz Himpel, pit overseer, for organizing the activist movement and for increasing
production.
Franz Bendel, engineer and director of the Hettstedt copper and brass works,
Friedrich Kalteich, engineer and plant manager of the above enterprise, Dr Karl
Kaiser, engineer and director of the laboratory and Ernst Seidel, engineer and
plant manager, for the production of fine nickel wire and the setting up of a con-
veyor-operated lacquering installation.
Oberspree Collective
Friedrich Jelitto, development engineer and Willi Drescher, plant engineer,
for the construction of transmitter tunes and the development of new processes for
their production.
Collective for Coal-Dust Locomotives
Hans Wendler, Reichsbahn consultant, Ernst Hoehne, controller of operational
machinery, Wilhelm Helfera, section chief of the Stendal Reichsbahn repair shops,
and Otto Wetzel and Gustav Scherm, fitters employed in the Tempelhof Reichabahn
repair shops, for the development of the coal-dust locomotive.
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Gerhard Dietze, Kurt Spindler, Gerhard Zschieschaur, Eberhard Hildens, Kurt
Dietrich, Werner Schmidt, Dieie= Waestenfeld, Gerhard Oyer, Kurt Baumgart, Gerhard
Kegler, Gerhard Schiller, Hans Buthig, Lothar Vogel, and Heinz daehrich for exem-
plary work at the Dresden-Friedrichstadt Reichabahn repair shops.
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