Personalities

Numerous names of renowned personalities are linked with Cologne University, among them researchers, alumni, honorary senators and honorary doctors, to mention only a few:

  • Prof. Dr. Peter Grünberg, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 2007Prof.

  • Dr. Juergen B. Donges, former chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts; alumnus

  • Dr. h.c. Renate Jäger, judge at the European Court of Human Rights; alumna

  • Prof. Dr. Axel A. Weber, president of the German Central Bank, 2004-2011; alumnus

  • Dr. Reinhold Ewald, astronaut at the European Space Agency (ESA); alumnus

  • Dr. Alfred Herrhausen, chairman of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank, 1985-1989

  • Prof. Dr. Karl Carstens, German Federal President, 1979-1984; alumnus, honorary senator

  • Prof. Dr. Max Delbrück, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1969; founder of the Institute for Genetics

  • Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Konrad Adenauer, German Federal Chancellor, 1949-1963

  • Prof. Dr. Kurt Alder, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1950

 

Academic Distinctions to Active Members of the University (Scientists & Scholars)

  • Prof. Dr. Peter Andreas Grünberg, Nobel Prize in Physics, 2007

  • Prof. Dr. Martin Zirnbauer, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, 2009

  • Prof. Dr. Jens Brüning, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, 2009

  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Mussweiler, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, 2006

  • Prof. Dr. Axel Ockenfels, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, 2005

  • Prof. Dr. Martin Krönke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, 2001

  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Kablitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, 1997

  • Prof. Dr. Ulf-Ingo Flügge, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, 1996

  • Prof. Dr. Werner Eck, Max Planck Research Award, 2000

  • Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Stoffel, Max Planck Research Award, 1992

  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Krieg, Max Planck Research Award, 1991

  • Prof. Dr. Jens Brüning, Wilhelm Vaillant Prize, 2005

  • Prof. Dr. Kathrin Bringmann, SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, 2009

  • Prof. Dr. Klaus Meerholz, Cologne Innovation Prize, 2004

  • Prof. Dr. Alexander Krempf, Postbank Finance Award, 2007/2008

 

Academic Distinctions to Active Members of the University (Junior Researchers)

  • Dr. Mirka Uhlirova, Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, 2008

  • Prof. Dr. Manuel Koch, Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, 2002

  • Dr. Christian Kubisch, Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize, 2000

  • Prof. Dr. Kathrin Bringmann, Alfried Krupp Award for Young Professors, 2009

  • Dr. Björn Schumacher, NRW Innovation Prize (category junior researchers), 2009

  • Prof. Dr. Patrick Schmitz, Karl Arnold Prize, 2006

  • Prof. Dr. Axel Jacobi Von Wangelin, Science Prize of the Industrie-Club e.V. Düsseldorf, 2009

 

Further Offices and Distinctions

  • Prof. Dr. Thomas von Danwitz, judge at the European Court of Justice

  • Prof Dr. Angelika Nußberger, judge at the European Court of Human Rights

  • Prof Dr. Peter Hanau, recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan)