The award was first given in May 1988 and the first winner was Professor Dr Wolfram Sander (external link), who now holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry at Ruhr University in Bochum. Read in our magazine ‘Athene’ 2/2018 (PDF) (internal link) on page 15f. how he remembers the award ceremony in an interview on the occasion of the 30th giving of the award in 2018.
The award winners since 1988:
