Foundations at the GDCh

The GDCh acts as trustee for a whole range of non-independent foundations. The purpose of these foundations is to award prizes, promotional prizes and scholarships.

The Karl Ziegler Foundation awards the Karl Ziegler Award, endowed with 50,000 euros, one of the two highest-value foundation prizes awarded by the GDCh for outstanding scientific achievements in chemistry. The Karl Ziegler Promotional Award also includes a scholarship for early-career scientists to fund a postdoctoral position.

The Klaus Grohe Prize is endowed with 75,000 euros, making it one of the highest-value awards in the field of medicinal chemistry and drug research. The prize was endowed by Klaus Grohe; together with his wife Eva Grohe, he established the Klaus Grohe Foundation at the GDCh in 2001.

The Dres Volker and Elke Münch Foundation provides financial support to young scientists for the registration of patents.

Other awards include the Paul Bunge Prize, awarded by the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation, as well as the awards of the Scimus et Sciemus-, Dr. Hermann Schnell-, Hellmut Bredereck-, Georg Manecke-, Wolfgang Johannes Hönle- and Meyer-Galow Foundation.

Among the most recently established foundations are the Christel and Herbert W. Roesky Foundation, which awards a prize of 10,000 euros every two years in the field of molecular main-group chemistry, and the Reinhard Zellner Foundation, which awards a prize for an outstanding contribution to scientific and/or technical progress in the production and application of green hydrogen in industrial processes and the energy sector, including the production of CO₂-reduced fuels.

Foundation advisory boards decide on the awarding of prizes and awards.