Emil Fischer Medal
Professor Helma Wennemers is honoured in recognition of her outstanding and pioneering contributions to the chemistry of artificial peptides. Particular emphasis is placed on her work demonstrating that short peptides can perform the functions of large biological macromolecules, as well as on the development of highly effective peptide catalysts and innovative synthetic collagens. Her research has had a lasting impact on and made a decisive contribution to organic chemistry and peptide research.
The GDCh awards the Emil Fischer Medal for outstanding achievements in the field of organic chemistry. The award was established in 1912 by Carl Duisberg to mark Emil Fischer’s 60th birthday and was initially funded by the Carl Duisberg Foundation and later from a special fund of the GDCh. Emil Fischer was one of the most important chemists of his time and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902 for his work on sugars and purines.
| 2026 | Helma Wennemers, ETH Zurich |
| 2024 | Frank Glorius, University of Münster |
| 2022 | Peter Bäuerle, University of Ulm |
| 2020 | Peter H. Seeberger, Potsdam |
| 2018 | Thorsten Bach, Munich |
| 2016 | Dirk Trauner, Munich |
| 2014 | Matthias Beller, Rostock |
| 2012 | Herbert Waldmann, Dortmund |
| 2010 | Johann Mulzer, Vienna |
| 2008 | Peter Hofmann, Heidelberg |
| 2006 | Bernd Giese, Basel/Switzerland |
| 2004 | Lutz Friedjan Tietze, Göttingen |
| 2002 | Dieter Enders, Aachen |
| 2000 | Horst Kunz, Mainz |
| 1997 | Horst Kessler, Munich |
| 1995 | Richard R. Schmidt, Konstanz |
| 1992 | Ivar Ugi, Munich |
| 1990 | Ekkehard Winterfeldt, Hanover |
| 1988 | Rolf Geiger, Frankfurt a. M. |
| 1986 | Wolfgang Steglich, Bonn |
| 1984 | Gerhard Quinkert, Frankfurt a. M. |
| 1982 | Hermann Stetter, Aachen |
| 1980 | Hans Paulsen, Hamburg |
| 1978 | Hans Musso, Karlsruhe |
| 1975 | Emanuel Vogel, Cologne |
| 1970 | Günther Wilke, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr |
| 1969 | Theodor Wieland, Heidelberg |
| 1967 | Arthur Lüttringhaus, Freiburg |
| 1966 | Hellmut Bredereck, Stuttgart |
| 1962 | Otto Westphal, Freiburg |
| 1961 | Hans Herloff Inhoffen, Brunswick Friedrich Weygand, Munich |
| 1960 | Rudolf Criegee, Karlsruhe |
| 1958 | Walter König, Dresden |
| 1955 | Hans-Heinrich Schlubach, Hamburg |
| 1954 | Hans Brockmann, Göttingen |
| 1952 | Karl Freudenberg, Heidelberg |
| 1951 | Burckhardt Helferich, Bonn |
| 1950 | Hans Meerwein, Marburg |
| 1940 | Clemens Schöpf, Darmstadt |
| 1938 | Kurt Adler, Cologne |
| 1937 | Gerhard Domagk, Wuppertal-Elberfeld Josef Klarer, Wuppertal-Elberfeld |
| 1935 | Adolf Butenandt, Danzig |
| 1934 | Hans Mauß, Wuppertal-Elberfeld Fritz Mietsch, Wuppertal-Elberfeld |
| 1933 | Fritz Kögl, Utrecht/Netherlands |
| 1931 | Felix Ehrlich, Breslau |
| 1930 | Kurt H. Meyer, Ludwigshafen Hermann Staudinger, Freiburg |
| 1928 | Fritz Schönhöfer, Wuppertal-Elberfeld Werner Schulemann, Wuppertal-Elberfeld August Wingler, Leverkusen |
| 1927 | Franz Fischer, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr Alwin Mittasch, Mannheim |
| 1922 | Carl Neuberg, Berlin |
| 1919 | Otto Hahn, Berlin |
| 1912 | Fritz Hofmann, Breslau |
Prof. Dr. Bart Jan Ravoo, University of Münster (lead responsibility)
Prof. Dr. Lutz Ackermann, Georg-August University Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Anke Krüger, University of Stuttgart
Dr. Carl Friedrich Nising, Bayer AG
Prof. Dr. Tanja Weil, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg