Bettina-Haupt-Förderpreis
The Bettina Haupt Foundation supports research into the history of chemistry by recognising outstanding work by early-career researchers from German-speaking countries with the Bettina-Haupt-Förderpreis for the history of chemistry.
The Bettina Haupt Foundation is administered in trust by the GDCh and was established by Prof. Dr. Heinz Sperlich and his wife Ingeborg in memory of their daughter Dr. Bettina Haupt, née Sperlich, who died in 1985 and was herself active in the field of the history of chemistry.
Next call for proposals: spring/summer 2027
| Location at the time of the award ceremony | |||
| Year | Awardees | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Dr. Simon Große-Wilde | Berlin | Military technology research and testing for the “Third Reich” – The Chemical-Technical Reich Institute from 1900 to 1945 |
| 2024 | Dr. Paulina S. Gennermann | Heidelberg | A Story with Flavour. The Nature of Synthetic flavorings in the 20th Century, Using Vanillin as an Example |
| 2024 | Dr. Josephine Musil-Gutsch | Munich | The Past under the Microscope: Cooperative Research Practices in the Natural Sciences and Humanities, 1880–1930 |
| 2022 | Dr. Christopher Halm | Regensburg | The Early History of Agricultural Chemistry (1731–1813) – The Chemical Appropriation of Soil and the Emergence of Field Laboratories |
| 2021 | - | - | No award (coronavirus pandemic) |
| 2019 | - | - | No award |
| 2017 | - | - | No award |
| 2015 | Justus Vesting | Halle (Saale) | Forced labour in the chemical triangle: Prisoners and construction soldiers in the industry of the GDR more |
| 2013 | Dr. Thomas Steinhauser | Bielefeld | Machines of the future in chemistry – Nuclear magnetic resonance up to 1980 more |
| 2011 | Dr. Florian Karl Öxler | Ostfildern | From portable laboratory to chemistry set – On the history of the chemistry experiment set, with particular consideration of the German-speaking region more |
| 2007 | Henning Schweer | Hamburg | The history of the Stoltzenberg Chemical Factory up to the end of the Second World War more |
| 2005 | Dr. Dirk Hackenholz | Halle (Saale) | The electrochemical plants in Bitterfeld 1914–1945: a site of IG Farbenindustrie AG more |
| PD Dr. Stefan Roß | Essen | for his research and editorial work, which has placed the life’s work of the Dorpat Liebig student Carl Schmidt (1822–1894) more clearly in the light of nineteenth-century history of chemistry more – more | |
| 2003 | Christina Renata Grund | Würzburg | The Würzburg chemist Johann Joseph von Scherer and the establishment of clinical chemistry in the nineteenth century more |
| Elena Roussanova | Hamburg | Julia Lermontowa (1846–1919) – The first woman chemist to receive a doctorate in the nineteenth century more | |
| 2001 | Dr. Martin Kirschke | Meine | Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783–1857) – A professorial career in a period of upheaval in the natural sciences more |
| 1999 | Dr. Joachim Stocklöv | Wiesbaden | Arthur Hantzsch: Pioneer of physical organic chemistry. Including the correspondence between Arthur Hantzsch and Wilhelm Ostwald from 1887 to 1927 more |
| Dr. Ulrike Fell | Frankfurt am Main | The Ideology of Chemistry in France from the Second Empire to the Interwar Period, 2000 more | |
| 1997 | Dr. Bettina Meitzner | Mittweida | The Equipment of the Chemical Art: Andreas Libavius’s 1606 Treatise “De sceuastica artis” more
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| 1995 | Dr. Arne Andersen | Bremen | Historical technology assessment using the metal smelting industry and chemical industry as examples, 1850–1930 more |
| 1993 | Dr. Sabine Ernst | Mainz | Lise Meitner to Otto Hahn – Letters from 1912 to 1924 |